Epic Games

Creator of Fortnite (350M+ registered players) and Unreal Engine (the dominant real-time 3D platform used in films, architecture, and automotive visualisation).

ConsumerUnited States·Founded 1991·ISO/NSO equity·epicgames.com ↗

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Source-audited Jun 12, 2026

Current estimate

4 methods · Source-audited Jun 12, 2026Medium confidence (40%)

$25.8B

range $21.9B – $29.6B

Implied per-share: $69.5 · vs last primary +15%

No verified public secondary-market signal available for Epic Games. The estimate relies on last confirmed financing, peer multiples, sector momentum, and time decay.

Valuation basis:Last primary roundSource-audited Jun 12, 2026

Last primary round

$22.5B

Strategic (Disney) · 29mo ago

Secondary signal

—

No verified secondary signal

No verified public secondary signal is available. Hiive/Forge links are monitoring links only, not evidence of a current executable price.

Headcount

4,000

employees · LinkedIn+5%

LinkedIn count — directional proxy only. Historical figure sourced via Wayback Machine; treat ±15% as normal variance.

Revenue (est.)

$5.5B

annual run rate · est.

Complete company data

Every input we use, where we got it from, and how much we trust it.

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Source verification: PrivatePulse editorial review · manual-source-audit-2026-06

Field	Value	Source & Verification	Confidence
Company fundamentals
Sector	Consumer	Editorial classification	high
Headquarters	United States	Company website · Crunchbase	high
Founded	1991	Company website · Wikipedia	high
Website	epicgames.com	Direct	high
Last primary round
Post-money valuation	$22.5B	Bloomberg Feb 2024 ↗[source-audited Jun 2026]	high
Round name	Strategic (Disney)	Bloomberg Feb 2024 ↗	high
Date	2024-02-06 (29 months ago)	Bloomberg Feb 2024	high
Lead investor	Sony / Kirkbi (LEGO Group)	Bloomberg Feb 2024	high
Amount raised	$1.5B	Bloomberg Feb 2024 ↗	medium
Capitalization
Total fully-diluted shares	370.588M	Derived/estimated — SEC Form D filings, secondary price math, cap-table summaries[estimated — not authoritative] › notes Public total fully-diluted share count: estimated from SEC Form D filings, secondary-market pricing math (implied valuation ÷ price per share), and leaked cap-table summaries. Considered the lowest-confidence input.	low
Implied share price (4-method estimate)	$70	$25.8B anchor × 1000 ÷ 370.588235M shares[derived]	medium
Primary equity type granted	ISO/NSO	Public reports of company equity practices	high
Financials
Annual revenue (est.)	$5,500M	Estimated — best available public estimates (Sacra, The Information, company ARR disclosures, press reports)[estimated — not independently verified] › notes Annual revenue: best public estimates from Sacra, The Information, WSJ leaks, or company-stated ARR. Where official, we cite the source on the funding round.	medium
EV / Revenue (implied)	4.1x	Computed from valuation ÷ revenue[derived]	medium
Headcount
Employees (now)	4,000	LinkedIn — current company page count › notes Headcount: LinkedIn 'Company' page employee count, taken now and approximately 12 months ago via the Wayback Machine. Treat as a directional proxy for revenue growth, not a hard number.	medium
Employees (12 months ago)	3,800	LinkedIn company page — historical snapshot via Wayback Machine[estimated — ±15% directional proxy]	medium
12-month headcount growth	+5%	Computed[derived]	medium
Methodology inputs
Sector ETF proxy	ESPO	Editorial choice — most representative public ETF › notes Sector ETF: editorial choice of the most representative public-market proxy. Annual return: 3-year trailing average from Yahoo Finance, refreshed quarterly.	medium
ETF annual return (trailing 3-yr)	20%	Yahoo Finance · refreshed quarterly	medium

Funding history

Primary rounds reported in Bloomberg, WSJ, TechCrunch, Reuters, or SEC Form D filings (efts.sec.gov). Linked per round below.

Valuation progression (equity rounds)

Valuation progression · equity rounds

$22.5Blatest · Strategic (Disney)

Total growth

18×

Our estimate

$25.8B

Primary round

Down round

Our estimate

Strategic (Disney)↓ DOWN ROUND2024-02-06

$22.5B

Led by Disney · raised $1.5B

Source: Bloomberg Feb 2024 ↗

Strategic+10%2022-04-11

$31.5B

Led by Sony / Kirkbi · raised $2.0B

Source: Bloomberg Apr 2022(historical ref.)

Strategic+66%2021-04-13

$28.7B

Led by Sony / Appaloosa · raised $1.0B

Source: WSJ Apr 2021(historical ref.)

Strategic+1284%2020-08-06

$17.3B

Led by Sony · raised $250M

Source: Reuters Aug 2020(historical ref.)

Strategic stake2012-07-01

$1.3B

Led by Tencent (~40% stake) · raised $330M

Source: Bloomberg Jul 2012(historical ref.)

Secondary market signals

Secondary market signals: bid/ask/trade indications from Hiive (hiive.com), Forge Global, Caplight Index, and tender prices reported in the press.

No active listings found

We monitor Hiive, Forge Global, and EquityZen for Epic Games listings. As of July 2026, no verified secondary market activity has been recorded.

Secondary listings for private companies appear without announcement and typically close within days. When a listing appears, it often signals an upcoming tender offer or funding round.

Primary round history as valuation signal

In the absence of secondary market data, the funding history below is the primary valuation anchor. Method C (time-decay) uses this data to estimate current value.

Strategic (Disney) · 2024-02$22.5B

Strategic · 2022-04$31.5B

Strategic · 2021-04$28.7B

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Public peer comparables

Public peer comparables: editorial selection of public companies with the closest business model. EV/Revenue and growth from public 10-Q filings and Bloomberg, refreshed quarterly.

Ticker	Company	EV / Revenue	Revenue growth	As of
EA	Electronic Arts Inc.	6.88x	+12%	2026-07-10
NTES	NetEase, Inc.	0.75x	+6%	2026-07-10
RBLX	Roblox Corporation	7.63x	+39%	2026-07-10
TTWO	Take-Two Interactive Software,	6.86x	+6%	2026-07-10

Confidence breakdown

How much we trust each of the four valuation methods for this specific company, and why.

Method A — Peer-multiple

weight 25%→ $27.9B75% confidence

Growth-weighted peer EV/Revenue: 6.8x → 25% private-company discount → 5.1x on $5500M revenue

Method B — Secondary-implied

weight 45%suppressed25% confidence

↳ Effectively excluded from the blend — this method is structurally unreliable for this company.

No verified secondary market data available — estimate relies on primary round, peer multiples, and sector momentum.

Method C — Primary time-decay

weight 20%→ $23.8B37% confidence

$22.5B round (2024-02-06) × 1.21× growth × 0.88× multiple decay over 2.4 years

Method D — Sector momentum

weight 10%suppressed24% confidence

↳ Effectively excluded from the blend — this method is structurally unreliable for this company.

$22.5B × (1 + 20% p.j.)^2.4yr = $35.2B via ESPO ETF-proxy

Overall confidence

40%

Weighted average of the four methods. Above 60% is high, 35–60% medium, below 35% low.

Medium

Worked example for an employee

A concrete walk-through using a hypothetical employee profile. Same engine the calculator uses — try it with your real numbers.

Profile: a hypothetical employee who joined Epic Games 24 months ago (2024-07-10) with 2,000 options, on the standard 4-year vesting schedule with a 1-year cliff.

Vesting

1,000 of 2,000

50% vested at month 24

Implied share price (mid)

$70

weighted average of 4 methods

Gross vested value

$69,524

vested shares × implied price

Net value

$69,524

no strike, gross = net

Tax (rough)

$10,348

US federal only · AMT risk: low

What if the next round is…

Up round +30%

$78,593

New round at +30% valuation, 15% new shares issued

Down round −30%

$40,556

New round at −30% valuation, 20% new shares (higher dilution in distress)

Secondary today

$59,096

Sale on the secondary market at the typical 15% discount to the mid estimate

These numbers come from the same engine as the live calculator. Walk through with your own grant: use your real numbers →

Transparent assumptions

What we assumed where exact data isn't available. If any of these don't match your situation, the numbers above will be off.

Fully-diluted share count

370.588235M shares

We don't have authoritative cap-table access for private companies. The number above is reconstructed from SEC Form D filings, secondary-market price-vs-valuation math, and leaked share-class summaries. Actual fully-diluted count (including unvested option pool and SAFEs) may differ by 5–15%.

Common-stock waterfall

1.0× to common

We assume a clean common-stock outcome — i.e. preferred-share liquidation preferences and ratchets do not extract value before common. In a down-exit, this assumption can be very wrong: preferred stack can take 30–70% of proceeds.

Private-company illiquidity discount

25% off public peers

Applied to Method A (peer-multiple). Per-company because category leaders with deep secondary markets and a clear IPO path warrant a smaller discount than early-stage names. The literature range is 10–35%; for Epic Games we use 25% based on secondary-market depth, valuation history, and proximity to liquidity.

Revenue growth assumption (Method C)

8% YoY

Compounded forward from the last primary date to today to estimate the company's value drift. Set per-company based on disclosed or reported ARR trajectory. Method C is further capped at 1.3× the most recent secondary trade (if any) to stop runaway extrapolation when revenue growth outpaces what the market is actually paying.

Sector ETF momentum (Method D)

ESPO @ 20%/year

Method D applies the trailing return of ESPO as a market-proxy adjustment to the primary valuation. Crude — meant as a tiebreaker when peer and secondary data conflict, not as a primary signal.

Outlier auto-downweight

Methods >50% from median get ½ weight

Robust-statistics safety net: any method whose output strays more than 50% from the median of the other three methods has its confidence weight halved when computing the blended mid-point. Prevents a single bad extrapolation from dragging the headline.

Recency decay for secondary trades

180-day half-life (e⁻ᵈ/¹⁸⁰)

A trade from 30 days ago counts ~5× more than one from 180 days ago. Tunable; some platforms use shorter half-lives.

Tax estimate

US federal only, single filer

Uses 2024 US federal brackets, ignoring state tax, NIIT, AMT credit recovery, and any other deductions. Treat as a directional sanity check, not a tax bill.

All data from public sources. Not investment, tax, or legal advice. Not affiliated with Epic Games. Last refreshed manually — see methodology for our update cadence.