Growth Metrics

Perfect (PERF) Research & Development (2021 - 2026)

Perfect posted quarterly Research & Development of -$3.5 million for Q1 2026, up 0.93% year-on-year from -$3.5 million in Q1 2025, and up 8.92% on a QoQ basis from -$3.9 million in Q4 2025.

Perfect (PERF) has 6 years of Research & Development data on file, last reported at -$3.5 million in Q1 2026.

  • For the quarter ending Q1 2026, Research & Development rose 0.93% year-over-year to -$3.5 million; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 stood at -$15.4 million (down 22.68% YoY), and the FY2025 full-year result was $15.4 million, up 28.37% from the prior year.
  • Research & Development for Q1 2026 stood at -$3.5 million, up from -$3.9 million in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Research & Development topped out at -$2.6 million in Q3 2022 and bottomed at -$4.0 million in Q2 2025.
  • The 5-year median for Research & Development is -$3.0 million (2023), against an average of -$3.1 million.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2022, when Research & Development tumbled 115.89%; it then grew 8.26% in 2024.
  • A 5-year view of Research & Development shows it stood at -$2.6 million in 2022, then slipped by 17.74% to -$3.0 million in 2023, then advanced by 8.26% to -$2.8 million in 2024, then sank by 39.65% to -$3.9 million in 2025, then increased by 8.92% to -$3.5 million in 2026.
  • The last three Research & Development figures came in at -$3.5 million (Q1 2026), -$3.9 million (Q4 2025), and -$3.9 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) R&D (Qtr)
1 Sap Se 253.17 Bn 235.20 Bn 8.16 Bn -1.99 Bn
2 Salesforce 171.07 Bn 161.50 Bn 8.69 Bn 1.62 Bn
3 Uber Technologies 147.39 Bn 146.35 Bn 11.88 Bn 951.00 Mn
4 Shopify 134.25 Bn 128.50 Bn 1.55 Bn 437.00 Mn
5 ServiceNow 105.72 Bn 100.54 Bn 2.83 Bn 823.00 Mn
6 Cadence Design Systems 101.64 Bn 100.23 Bn 1.26 Bn 508.44 Mn
7 Adobe 100.35 Bn 93.46 Bn 5.73 Bn 1.11 Bn
8 Automatic Data Processing 90.91 Bn 87.68 Bn 2.87 Bn 253.90 Mn
9 Intuit 88.30 Bn 81.52 Bn 6.77 Bn 840.00 Mn
10 Perfect 16.91 Mn -109.07 Mn 14.69 Mn -3.53 Mn

Historic Data

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DateValue
Mar 31, 2026 -3.53 Mn
Dec 31, 2025 -3.88 Mn
Sep 30, 2025 -3.93 Mn
Jun 30, 2025 -4.03 Mn
Mar 31, 2025 -3.57 Mn
Dec 31, 2024 -2.78 Mn
Sep 30, 2024 -3.21 Mn
Jun 30, 2024 -2.98 Mn
Mar 31, 2024 -3.04 Mn
Dec 31, 2023 -3.03 Mn
Sep 30, 2023 -3.04 Mn
Jun 30, 2023 -2.77 Mn
Mar 31, 2023 -2.63 Mn
Dec 31, 2022 -2.57 Mn
Sep 30, 2022 -2.55 Mn
Jun 30, 2022 -2.65 Mn
Mar 31, 2022 -2.71 Mn
Dec 31, 2021 16.18 Mn