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How good a business is UL?
Unilever PLC earns 20% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
20%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 11 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 18%
Operating margin · Household & Personal Products median 15% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 0.73×
Cash conversion · 1.42× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −1.5%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 16% |
| FY2021 | 17% |
| FY2022 | 18% |
| FY2023 | 17% |
| FY2024 | 17% |
| FY2025 | 18% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 47%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 18%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 19%
- Free cash flow margin
- 14%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 1.7%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $50.5B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $6.93B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $9.47B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 20%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Household & Personal Products
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