Company data sheet · Farfetch
Farfetch: five lost years, and the economy wasn't the reason.
- Industry
- Business Services
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom
- Sources
- SEC filings (2018–2024), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for United Kingdom
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to five straight losses. Farfetch lost money every year from 2016 to 2020: $4.1 billion in all. 2021 was its first profit in six years: $1.5 billion.
- It outgrew its own economy many times over. Revenue rose from $0.2 billion in 2016 to $2.3 billion in 2022: 9.6 times as much. United Kingdom's economy, counted the same way in money terms, grew about 34%. Whatever drove it, the economy around it does not account for growth of that size.
- It wasn't the cycle. The losses began in 2016, a year United Kingdom economy grew 2.2%. When a company falls while its economy grows, look inside the company first.
- Ahead of almost everyone like it. From 2016 to 2022, its revenue grew 857% in US dollars; the median among 291 large service companies grew 71%. It outgrew 94% of them.
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $0.2 billion | −$0.1 billion | |
| 2017 | $0.4 billion | −$0.1 billion | |
| 2018 | $0.6 billion | −$0.2 billion | |
| 2019 | $1 billion | −$0.4 billion | |
| 2020 | $1.7 billion | −$3.3 billion | |
| 2021 | $2.3 billion | $1.5 billion | |
| 2022 | $2.3 billion | $0.4 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
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- Economic context: 6 measures for United Kingdom, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 528 companies of its size in its sector.
- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
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