Appen Limited

Appen Limited

APPEF
Appen LimitedUS flagOther OTC
0.70
USD
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- -
187.97MMarket Cap
2014 Y
2015 Y
2016 Y
2017 Y
2018 Y
2019 Y
2020 Y
2021 Y
2022 Y
2023 Y
2024 Y
2025 Y
Revenue per Share
- -
0.56
0.73
1.17
2.13
2.81
3.35
3.21
2.78
1.92
1.02
0.87
Basic EPS, GAAP
- -
0.06
0.07
0.1
0.24
0.22
0.28
0.21
-1.71
-0.83
-0.09
-0.08
Free Cash Flow per Basic Share
- -
- -
-0.02
-0.04
-0.02
-0.08
-0.15
-0.17
-0.2
-0.14
-0.06
-0.06
Dividend per Share
- -
0.01
0.03
0.04
0.04
0.05
0.06
0.07
0.04
- -
- -
- -
Book Value per Share
0.14
0.1
0.1
0.46
0.38
1.88
2
1.86
0.14
-0.29
-0.06
-0.14
Tangible Book Value per Share
0.06
0.12
0.14
-0.16
0.12
0.44
0.71
0.55
0.28
0.37
0.37
0.3
Basic Weighted Avg Shares
95
108
110
111
120
133
138
139
140
142
229
264
Sales/Revenue/Turnover
- -
60
80
130
257
375
461
447
388
273
234
231
Operating Margin (%)
- -
15.37
14.73
11.65
16.25
11.89
9.89
9.27
-7.88
-20.97
-8.97
-9.15
Depreciation Expense
- -
1
1
1
6
18
31
35
42
35
23
31
Net Income, GAAP
- -
6
8
11
29
29
39
29
-239
-118
-20
-22
Effective Tax Rate (%)
- -
33.05
34.57
29.9
25.42
24.42
20.49
20.5
- -
- -
- -
- -
Profit Margin (%)
- -
10.05
9.45
8.57
11.46
7.77
8.43
6.38
-61.59
-43.25
-8.54
-9.45
Working Capital
6
14
17
34
52
52
95
96
60
59
85
75
LT Debt
- -
- -
- -
53
40
13
14
10
7
9
7
5
Total Equity
16
21
25
73
98
337
374
392
148
93
114
95
Return on Invested Capital (%)
- -
32.1
31.81
13.84
23.49
13.69
9.7
8.24
- -
- -
- -
- -
Return on Capital (%)
- -
49.07
67.64
19.31
32.68
17.45
14.09
10.2
- -
- -
- -
- -
Return on Common Equity (%)
- -
49.84
67.64
35.64
60.26
19.61
14.76
10.67
-171.54
- -
- -
- -

Capital Structure

FRC

in mil. unless spec.
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Working Capital

FRC

in mil. unless spec.
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Growth Rates

FRC

in mil. unless spec.

(avg. rate of change)

10 years
5 years
1 year
Total Equity
40.83%
-17.74%
-17.24%
Free Cash Flow
78.36%
-0.71%
29.5%
Net Income, GAAP
-82.08%
-217.89%
9.04%
Sales/Revenue/Turnover
20.04%
-12.3%
-1.5%
Total Cash Common Dividend
- -
- -
- -

Quarterly Revenue

FRC

in mil. unless spec.

Year

Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
FY
2023
- -
- -
- -
- -
273
2024
- -
- -
- -
- -
234
2025
- -
- -
- -
- -
231

Quarterly Earnings Per Share

FRC

in mil. unless spec.

Year

Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
FY
2023
- -
- -
- -
- -
-0.83
2024
- -
- -
- -
- -
-0.09
2025
- -
- -
- -
- -
-0.08

Quarterly Dividends Per Share

FRC

in mil. unless spec.

Year

Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
FY
2023
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
2024
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
2025
- -
- -
- -
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- -

Company Description

APIChatGPT
CEO
Ryan Kolln
Full Time Employees
1,130
Sector
Technology
Industry
Information Technology Services
Address
9 Help Street Chatswood NSW Australia 2067
IPO Date
Apr 3, 2018
Website
appen.com
Business
Appen Limited (ASX: APX; OTC: APPEF) operates as an AI lifecycle company that provides high-quality data sourcing, annotation, model evaluation, and fine-tuning solutions to enterprises building machine learning and generative AI models. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Chatswood, Australia, with key offices in Kirkland, Washington (US), and multiple locations across China, Japan, India, the Philippines, and Europe, the company serves technology, automotive, financial services, retail, government, healthcare, media, telecommunications, and eCommerce sectors worldwide through its two segments: Global Services and New Markets. Appen offers platforms including CrowdGen for crowd management with sourcing, recruitment, qualification, smart matching, payments, and support; AI Data Annotation Platform for workflow management, data organization, collaboration, transcription, collection, categorization, monitoring, and dataset creation; AI Data Solutions encompassing LLM and generative AI workflows, supervised fine-tuning, human preference ranking, red teaming, model performance evaluation, A/B testing, and automation tools; and China-specific offerings like MatrixGo, generative AI annotation, and off-the-shelf datasets; it also delivers specialized services in speech recognition (data collection, transcription, annotation for audio classification), computer vision (image/video segmentation, object/pattern detection, classification with 250+ licensable datasets), natural language processing, and document intelligence. Recent developments include the launch of new platform capabilities in March 2024 for enterprises to customize large language models; partnerships with AWS (November 2023) as primary cloud provider and NVIDIA (May 2023) for end-to-end AI solutions; introduction of AI chat feedback, benchmarking tools (August 2023), and three generative AI products for reinforcement learning with human feedback, document intelligence, and automated NLP labeling (February 2023); recognition as a Leader in Everest Group's Data Annotation PEAK Matrix 2024 (April 2024); release of the 2024 State of AI Report (October 2024); and appointment of Justin Miles as permanent CFO (February 2024) under CEO Ryan Kolln, who continues to drive strategic growth amid evolving AI data challenges.

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