Company data sheet · Nuance Communications
Nuance Communications: from profit to six straight losses.
- Industry
- Prepackaged Software
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sources
- SEC filings (1996–2023), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to six straight losses. Nuance Communications lost money every year from fiscal 2013 to 2018: $0.7 billion in all. Fiscal 2019 was its first profit in seven years: $0.2 billion.
- Left behind by its peers. From 2016 to 2021, its revenue shrank 31% in US dollars; the median among 307 large service companies grew 49%. It outgrew only 10% of them.
- Still smaller than it was. Revenue reached $1.4 billion in fiscal 2021, 34% below its fiscal 2018 peak of $2.1 billion.
- Leaders came and went. Nuance Communications filed 28 leadership changes since 2016, more than 79% of large service companies (the median is 16).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $2 billion | −$0 billion | |
| 2017 | $1.9 billion | −$0.2 billion | |
| 2018 | $2.1 billion | −$0.2 billion | |
| 2019 | $1.3 billion | $0.2 billion | |
| 2020 | $1.3 billion | $0 billion | |
| 2021 | $1.4 billion | −$0 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
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