Company data sheet · Plantronics
Plantronics: five lost years, and the economy wasn't the reason.
- Industry
- Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus Manufacturing
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sources
- SEC filings (1995–2022), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to five straight losses. Plantronics earned $0.3 billion in fiscal 2015–2017. Then it lost money every year from fiscal 2018 to 2021: $1.2 billion in all. Fiscal 2022 was its first profit in six years: $0 billion.
- It wasn't the cycle. The losses began in fiscal 2018 (mostly calendar 2017), a year the US economy grew 2.5% and factories added jobs. When a company falls while its economy grows, look inside the company first.
- Leaders came and went. Plantronics filed 33 leadership changes since 2016, more than 85% of large manufacturers (the median is 19).
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $0.9 billion | $0.1 billion | |
| 2017 | $0.9 billion | $0.1 billion | |
| 2018 | $0.9 billion | −$0 billion | |
| 2019 | $1.7 billion | −$0.1 billion | |
| 2019 | $1.7 billion | −$0.1 billion | |
| 2020 | $1.7 billion | −$0.8 billion | |
| 2021 | $1.7 billion | −$0.1 billion | |
| 2022 | $1.7 billion | $0 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
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- Market reaction to disclosed decisions: 51 decision filings since 2016, each linked to the SEC, with the share return against its sector and the S&P 500 the next day and the next year (0 with market data).
- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
- Peer comparison: against 953 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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