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ABB Ltd. ABLZF

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2023 reported · SEC filings only
$32.2B
▲ 9.5% YoY
$3.8B
▲ 47.4% YoY
$3.5B
▲ 570.5% YoY
Growth
USD 32.2B
Revenue, FY2023 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2023 · Revenue 32.2 · Net income 3.8
20B40B200720092011201320152017201920212023
Compound annual growth
+7.2%
+3.1%
−2.6%
−0.5%
−9.8%
+10.7%
+2.8%
−6.1%
+14.5%
+5.2%
+2.6%
−14.7%
+8.6%
+5.9%
+11.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +3.1% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +10.7%, earnings per share at +14.5%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
12 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2023 · Operating 15.1% · Net 11.9%
5%10%15%200720092011201320152017201920212023
ROE
FY2023 · ROE 29.2%
10%20%30%200720092011201320152017201920212023
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 29 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 3.0B
returned in FY2023 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2023 · FCF 3.5
2B200720092011201320152017201920212023
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2023 · Dividends 1.7 · Net buybacks 1.3
2B4BDividendsNet buybacks200720102012201420162018202020222023

USD 1.7B in dividends and USD 1.3B in buybacks — 78% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 40.9B
EquityUSD 13.4B
CashUSD 3.9B
Gross debtUSD 7.8B
Net debtUSD 3.9B
Current ratio1.18×

Net debt stands at 29% of equity.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007
Revenue $B32.229.428.926.128.027.725.224.935.539.841.839.338.031.631.834.929.2
Operating income $B4.93.35.71.61.92.22.21.93.04.24.44.14.73.84.14.64.0
EBITDA $B5.74.26.62.52.93.13.12.84.25.55.75.25.74.54.85.24.6
Income tax $B0.90.81.10.50.80.50.60.50.81.21.11.01.21.01.01.10.6
Net income $B3.82.64.75.21.52.32.42.02.12.72.92.83.32.73.13.13.6
Free cash flow $B3.50.52.51.01.62.23.03.22.92.82.52.52.63.43.12.82.3
EPS, diluted $2.011.302.252.430.671.021.030.880.871.131.211.181.381.121.271.361.57
Dividend / sh $·················
Payout %456537331107569·6668575847····
ROE %29.218.329.735.611.116.016.814.613.415.616.317.221.617.923.327.531.3

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 83 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 12 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivitySwitchgear & Switchboard Apparatus
Listed onOTC market
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2007

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