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Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (ERIC)

NASDAQ / Technology / Communication Equipment

Share price

10.71 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

34.76B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Mar 12, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

27.4% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

12.16x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

8.8% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 220.32B SEKFY2016 Net income: 833.0M SEKFY2017 Revenue: 205.38B SEKFY2017 Net income: -32.58B SEKFY2018 Revenue: 210.84B SEKFY2018 Net income: -6.53B SEKFY2019 Revenue: 227.22B SEKFY2019 Net income: 2.22B SEKFY2020 Revenue: 232.39B SEKFY2020 Net income: 17.48B SEKFY2021 Revenue: 232.31B SEKFY2021 Net income: 22.69B SEKFY2022 Revenue: 271.55B SEKFY2022 Net income: 18.72B SEKFY2023 Revenue: 263.35B SEKFY2023 Net income: -26.45B SEKFY2024 Revenue: 247.88B SEKFY2024 Net income: 20.0M SEKFY2025 Revenue: 236.68B SEKFY2025 Net income: 28.43B SEK
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
12 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 12.16x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 10.00x and 15.00x.

Today, against the Technology sector (365 companies), 12.16x sits at the 17th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.65x to 58.59x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 27.4% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Exceptional" (20.0% and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on the capital in the business well above the usual cost of that capital.

Today, against the Technology sector (220 companies), 27.4% sits at the 83rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 1.2% to 17.5%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 12.68x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Technology sector, year by year. (FY2024 to FY2025, 2 fiscal years of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ))
What could explain it
What in Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)'s filed statements could explain the movements. (8 readings drawn from the statement lines Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), and where in its filings. (3 questions for Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ))
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ))

These are ERIC’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-104149.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ): returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax27.4% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Return on equity25.9% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Return on capital employed, pre-tax23.0% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Return on assets10.2% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Gross margin47.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Operating margin16.3% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Net margin12.0% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
ERIC 12.0%
NOK 3.3%MSI 18.4%ZBRA 7.8%UI 29.3%CIEN 2.6%
2.6%29.3%
Net margin: ERIC against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ): leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.37 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Current ratio1.29 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Quick ratio1.08 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Interest coverage12.68x ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Altman Z-score3.00 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Net debt-3.66B ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Total assets 279.22BTotal liabilities 168.96BShareholders' equity 109.53BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149).

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ): balance sheet position
Total assets279.22B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026
Total liabilities168.96B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026
Shareholders' equity109.53B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026
Cash43.93B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026
Total debt40.26B FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026
Net debt-3.66B
Current ratio1.29
Debt to equity0.37

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ): what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings12.16x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book3.16x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Price to sales1.46x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Enterprise value to EBIT8.85x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Enterprise value to EBITDA7.20x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Price to earnings over growth1.20 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2025 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value ERIC on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ): valuation
Share price10.71 USD
Market capitalisation34.76B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA7.20x
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per sharen/a

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)

  1. Nokia Oyj (NOK)Market cap 51.69B USD
  2. Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI)Market cap 75.51B USD
  3. Zebra Technologies Corporation (ZBRA)Market cap 17.86B USD
  4. Ubiquiti Inc. (UI)Market cap 37.41B USD
  5. Ciena Corporation (CIEN)Market cap 50.56B USD

Same industry (Communication Equipment) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ): cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield8.8% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Free cash flow30.32B SEK ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Free cash flow margin12.8% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Dividend yield2.8% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Payout ratio33.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
FY2016 Free cash flow: 7.88B SEKFY2016 Net income: 833.0M SEKFY2017 Free cash flow: 5.72B SEKFY2017 Net income: -32.58B SEKFY2018 Free cash flow: 5.37B SEKFY2018 Net income: -6.53B SEKFY2019 Free cash flow: 11.76B SEKFY2019 Net income: 2.22B SEKFY2020 Free cash flow: 24.44B SEKFY2020 Net income: 17.48B SEKFY2021 Free cash flow: 35.40B SEKFY2021 Net income: 22.69B SEKFY2022 Free cash flow: 26.39B SEKFY2022 Net income: 18.72B SEKFY2023 Free cash flow: 3.88B SEKFY2023 Net income: -26.45B SEKFY2024 Free cash flow: 43.92B SEKFY2024 Net income: 20.0M SEKFY2025 Free cash flow: 30.32B SEKFY2025 Net income: 28.43B SEK
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filing

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ): the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
12.16xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.16xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
8.85xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
8.8%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
27.4%FY2025Mar 12, 2026
2.8%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.37FY2025Mar 12, 2026
1.29FY2025Mar 12, 2026
1.46xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
1.20FY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.00FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.53FY2025Mar 12, 2026
7/9FY2025Mar 12, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in SEK, as filed.

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ): revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY2025236.68B38.63B28.43Bn/a30.32B16.3%25.9%20-F, Mar 12, 20260001193125-26-104149
FY2024247.88B4.31B20.0Mn/a43.92B1.7%0.0%20-F, Mar 11, 20250001193125-25-051949
FY2023263.35B-20.33B-26.45Bn/a3.88B-7.7%-26.8%20-F, Mar 12, 20240001193125-24-065869
FY2022271.55B27.02B18.72Bn/a26.39B9.9%13.9%20-F, Mar 15, 20230001193125-23-071310
FY2021232.31B31.78B22.69Bn/a35.40B13.7%20.9%20-F, Mar 25, 20220001193125-22-085267
FY2020232.39B27.81B17.48Bn/a24.44B12.0%20.2%20-F, Mar 25, 20210001193125-21-094445
FY2019227.22B10.56B2.22Bn/a11.76B4.7%2.7%20-F, Mar 19, 20200001193125-20-078974
FY2018210.84B1.24B-6.53Bn/a5.37B0.6%-7.5%20-F, Mar 29, 20190001193125-19-092671
FY2017205.38B-34.74B-32.58Bn/a5.72B-16.9%-32.9%20-F/A, Apr 20, 20180001193125-18-124911
FY2016220.32B5.19B833.0Mn/a7.88B2.4%0.6%20-F/A, Apr 20, 20180001193125-18-124911
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 0.8%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 48.0%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 16.2%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ): accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.53 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Piotroski F-score7/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, 0001193125-26-104149
Named tests met12 of 30 Computed
Beta0.61 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 12 met, 14 not met, 4 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Owner earnings yield; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; High yield, low payout; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High return on tangibles; Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Not measured
Dividends and buybacks; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(4)
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 4 figures could not be read on this company, among them Positive Earnings Streak, Eps Growth 5Y, Share Count Change Yoy. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 4 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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