On the Record · Block
Block competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name Block as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who Block names
Block’s annual reports for 2023 to 2025 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names Block
Companies whose own annual reports name Block as a competitor.
Word for word“Our primary competition consists of facilitators and providers of legacy payment and consumer loan methods, such as credit and debit cards, including those provided by card issuing banks; technology solutions, including those provided by financial technology or payment companies; mobile wallets, such as Apple and PayPal; and pay-over-time solutions providers, including Block and Klarna.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our primary competitors in these areas include CoinTelegraph, The Block, Token2049, and other industry-specific digital media platforms and conferences.” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“Technology companies that may attract sellers by enabling commerce, such as Shopify Inc., Block, Inc., Mirakl SAS or Global-E Online Ltd.; and • White-label service providers, which offer end-to-end solutions.” 20-F for 2022
Word for word“With respect to our A&C products and services: Shopify, Block, BigCommerce, Stripe, PayPal, Liquid Web, SiteGround, WP Engine, Zoho, Mindbody, Toast, Yelp, OpenTable, TikTok, Meta and WeChat;” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Key competitors include Aptos, Inc., Block Inc., Diebold Nixdorf, Inc., Fiserv Inc., Flooid, Fujitsu Limited, GK Software SE, Global Payments Inc., HP Inc., Lightspeed, Olo Inc., Oracle Corporation, PAR Technology Corporation, Toast, Inc., Toshiba Tec Corporation and Qu, among others.” 10-K for 2025
Read from Block’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-26. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.