R&D expense · 2018–2025

PDD Holdings R&D expense

$2.4B+36.0% · FY2025

PDD Holdings (PDD) reported $2.4B in R&D expense for fiscal 2025, +36.0% year on year.

$162M2018$556M2019$1.1B2020$1.4B2021$1.5B2022$1.5B2023$1.7B2024$2.4B2025
PDD Holdings — R&D expense, 2018–2025
Fiscal yearR&D expenseChangeFiling
FY20252025-12-31$2.4B+36.0%Open →
FY20242024-12-31$1.7B+12.4%Open →
FY20232023-12-31$1.5B+2.5%Open →
FY20222022-12-31$1.5B+6.7%Open →
FY20212021-12-31$1.4B+33.6%Open →
FY20202020-12-31$1.1B+90.0%Open →
FY20192019-12-31$556M+242.5%Open →
FY20182018-12-31$162M—Open →

R&D expense — Research and development expense is what the company charged to R&D in the income statement for the year. Most companies report no R&D at all — the line is absent rather than zero — so this ranking covers the roughly 40% of filers that do.

Every row links to its own SEC filing · Fiscal year 2025 · Data as of September 25, 2026 · 2018–2025 compound annual growth +46.6%

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Wikipedia

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BibTeX

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  author       = {{CompaniesRanked}},
  title        = {{PDD Holdings R\&D expense}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://companiesranked.com/en/company/pdd-holdings/research-and-development-expense}},
  note         = {Compiled from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings; data as of 2026-09-25},
  urldate      = {2026-09-25}
}

The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 20-F · 0001104659-26-050727 · April 29, 2026

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