Unilever PLC (UL) Stock

About Unilever PLC

Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company in the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. It operates through four segments: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods. The Beauty & Wellbeing segment offers hair care, such as shampoo, conditioner, and styling; face, hand, and body moisturizer skin care products; and Prestige Beauty and Wellbeing products. The Personal Care segment provides soap and shower skin cleansing products; and deodorant and oral care, including toothpaste, toothbrush, and mouthwash products. The Home Care segment offers washing powders and liquids, and rinse conditioner fabric care products; and a range of home and hygiene cleaning products. The Foods segment provides cooking aids and mini meals comprising soups, bouillons, and seasonings, as well as mayonnaise and ketchup condiments; and Unilever food solutions. The company provides its products under the AXE, Clear, Cif, Closeup, Comfort, Dermalogica, Domestos, Dove, Dove Men+Care, Hellmann's, Horlicks, Knorr, LUX, Lifebuoy, Liquid I.V., Nexxus, Nutrafol, OMO, Pond's, Paula's Choice, Pepsodent, Radiant, Rexona, Sunlight, Sunsilk, Surf, TRESemmé, and Vaseline brand names. Unilever PLC was founded in 1860 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Unilever PLC is headquartered in GB.

Unilever PLC (UL) stock trades at $61.99 with a market capitalization of $133.53B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 28.61, price-to-book of 7.59, price-to-sales of 3.29. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $54.75 and $74.98, and currently trades 17.3% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 3.52%.

On profitability, Unilever PLC generates a return on equity (ROE) of 26.01%, above the typical market range of roughly 12-15%, return on capital employed of 20.26%, an operating margin of 27.96%, a net profit margin of 12.25%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Unilever PLC reported annual revenue of $50.5B, net profit of $9.5B. Over the last 5 fiscal years, revenue declined at an average annual rate of 0.1%, and net profit grew at an average annual rate of 11.2%. Over that span net profit grew faster than revenue, so net margin widened.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.91, a current ratio of 0.79, total assets of $70.4B, $3.9B in cash and equivalents.

UL has an average daily trading volume of 4,041,388 shares, a beta of 0.45 (historically less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.unilever.com

Unilever PLC by the numbers, 2016–2025

Between 2016 and 2025 Unilever PLC reported revenue of $52.7B rising to $50.5B, a change of -4.2% across 10 years. Compounded, revenue has grown -0.1% a year over five years, -5.6% over three, -16.9% over the last twelve months. Net profit rose to $9.5B.

Operating margin went from 14.8% in 2016 to 17.9% in 2025, a gain of 3.1 percentage points. The most recent net margin is 12.25%. On a trailing twelve-month basis to Dec '25, revenue is $111.1B and net profit $11.8B.

Borrowings rose from $16.6B to $29.6B, cash on hand is $5.1B, cash from operations was $8.3B in the latest year, positive in 10 of the last 10.

Return on equity has averaged 40.2% over five years, and was 61.0% in the most recent year.

The share price itself has compounded at 2.9% a year over five years, 5.2% over three, -5.6% over the last year. Past price movement is history, not a forecast.

Figures are as reported and in the company's own reporting currency. They describe what has already happened and carry no implication about what follows.

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