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Acme United Corp. ACU
16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY
Revenue · FY2025
$196.5M
▲ 1.1% vs FY2024
Dividend streak
1 yrs
Raised every year since 2025
EPS · FY25
$2.49
Dividend / sh · FY25
$0.63
Payout · FY25
23%
ROE · FY25
9.1%
Net margin · FY25
5.2%
Dividend coverage
4.0×
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Result
USD 196.5M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below
Revenue
Net income
5 cents of every revenue dollar became profit this year.
Per share
USD 2.49
Diluted EPS, FY2025
EPS
Dividend
Earnings covered the dividend 4.0 times — the rest stayed in the company.
Profitability
9.1%
Return on equity, FY2025
ROE
Operating margin7.5%
Net margin5.2%
Return on assets6.1%
Each USD of equity produced 9 cents of profit this year.
Returned to shareholders
USD 2.3M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Dividends paidUSD 2.3M
Net buybacks—
Share of profit23.0%
Consecutive raises1 years
USD 2.3M in dividends — 23% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.
Growth
+3.7% a year
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue
+0.4%
+3.7%
+6.0%
+7.9%
Net income
+49.7%
+4.7%
+7.8%
+9.6%
EPS, diluted
+44.8%
+1.5%
+6.7%
+7.8%
Dividend / share
+5.5%
Returned to shareholders
+7.2%
+7.9%
+6.9%
+8.9%
Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.
Share base
0.00B
Shares outstanding, FY2025
Change, 5 years—
Change, 10 years—
A share split breaks the comparison across the period, so we leave it out.
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Balance sheet
USD 171.0M
total assets, end of FY2025
Total assetsUSD 171.0M
EquityUSD 117.6M
CashUSD 3.6M
Gross debtUSD 11.9M
Net debtUSD 8.3M
Current ratio4.21×
Net debt stands at 7% of equity.
History
16 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
Metric
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Revenue $B
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.2
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.1
Operating income $B
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
EBITDA $B
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Income tax $B
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Net income $B
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
EPS, diluted $
2.49
2.45
4.86
0.82
3.45
2.31
1.60
1.30
1.09
1.64
1.30
1.36
1.22
1.13
0.91
0.81
Dividend / sh $
0.63
0.60
·
·
·
·
0.48
0.45
0.43
0.40
0.37
0.34
0.31
0.28
0.26
·
Payout %
23
22
11
63
13
20
29
32
35
23
25
22
18
31
27
25
ROE %
9.1
9.8
20.1
3.9
19.5
13.7
10.2
9.0
8.4
13.1
11.6
12.9
12.2
12.1
10.6
10.1
Shares out B
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
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Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.
How we verifyAUDITED
63 of 63
checks passed before publication
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidity
Every figure was compared against the original statement: 0 failures and 0 presentation gaps.
What we don’t show
We’d rather say what’s missing than fill the gap with an estimate.
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