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Unilever PLCULNYSE

Debt/Equity stays at or below 2.2. It has not broken in 11 filed years.

Today it reads 1.76x. Tested against 11 filed years.

Named tests met3 of 30
65.78 USD Market data. Sources for Share priceClose of Nov 11, 2026

Market data as of Nov 11, 2026. Ratios computed Nov 11, 2026.

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NYSE / Consumer Defensive / Household & Personal Products

Reading

The evidence behind it

Overview

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

16.6% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

13.40x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at 21:00 UTC

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

5.5% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at 21:00 UTC

Read cash generation

Strength

Debt to equity

1.76 Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read strength

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 52.71B EURFY2016 Net income: 5.18B EURFY2017 Revenue: 53.72B EURFY2017 Net income: 6.02B EURFY2018 Revenue: 50.98B EURFY2018 Net income: 9.37B EURFY2019 Revenue: 51.98B EURFY2019 Net income: 5.63B EURFY2020 Revenue: 50.72B EURFY2020 Net income: 5.58B EURFY2021 Revenue: 52.44B EURFY2021 Net income: 6.05B EURFY2022 Revenue: 60.07B EURFY2022 Net income: 7.64B EURFY2023 Revenue: 51.68B EURFY2023 Net income: 6.49B EURFY2024 Revenue: 52.48B EURFY2024 Net income: 5.74B EURFY2025 Revenue: 50.50B EURFY2025 Net income: 9.47B EUR
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Market capitalisation
141.70B USD Market data. Sources for Market capitalisation21:00 UTC
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Mar 12, 2026
Filed years
11, FY2015 to FY2025
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 13.40x at the close of 2026-11-11 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 Consumer Defensive sector (134 companies), 13.40x sits at the 24th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.45x to 31.56x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 16.6% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Above the cost of capital" (12.0% to 20.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Consumer Defensive sector (102 companies), 16.6% sits at the 83rd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 2.7% to 14.1%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 8.83x 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 Unilever PLC's return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Defensive sector, year by year. (FY2022 to FY2025, 4 fiscal years of Unilever PLC with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Unilever PLC's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Unilever PLC)
What could explain it
What in Unilever PLC's filed statements could explain the movements. (3 readings drawn from the statement lines Unilever PLC filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Unilever PLC, and where in its filings. (2 questions for Unilever PLC)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Unilever PLC's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (14 of sixteen figures read for Unilever PLC)

These are UL’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

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 20-F, filed Mar 12, 2026, accession 0000217410-26-000007.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 10 figures could not be read on this company, among them Positive Earnings Streak, Altman Z-Score, Eps Growth 5Y. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 3 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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