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Danaos Corp. DAC

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
4 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$1.0B
▲ 2.8% YoY
$494.6M
▼ 2.1% YoY
In brief

What this company does

As of February 25, 2026, the company owned 75 containerships aggregating 477,491 TEUs and 27 containerships under construction aggregating 174,550 TEUs, together with 11 Capesize bulk carriers aggregating 1,943,286 DWT and four Newcastlemax bulk carriers under construction with an aggregate capacity of approximately 844,000 DWT. As of December 31, 2025, 4,116 people served on board the company's fleet and 282 people provided services to it on shore. The company was incorporated as a Liberian company in 1998 and domesticated in the Republic of The Marshall Islands on October 7, 2005, at which point it changed its name from Danaos Holdings Limited to Danaos Corporation. It completed its initial public offering and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in October 2006.

Written from the business description in Danaos Corporation's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.0B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.0 · Net income 0.5
0.4B0.8B-0.2B200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+1.6%
+17.7%
+6.3%
+7.4%
−4.0%
+26.4%
+15.5%
−0.6%
+32.9%
+4.8%
+15.7%
+34.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +17.7% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +26.4%, earnings per share at +32.9%.

The share count fell from 0.02B to 0.02B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

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
47 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 47.8% · Net 47.4%
50%100%150%-20%-40%-60%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 13.7%
20%40%60%-20%-40%200920112013201520172019202120232025

Each USD of equity produced 14 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 139.3M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 63.5 · Net buybacks 75.7
50M100M-80M-160MDividendsNet buybacks2010202020212022202320242025

USD 63.5M in dividends and USD 75.7M in buybacks — 28% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 5.1B
EquityUSD 3.8B
CashUSD 1.0B
Gross debtUSD 1.2B
Net debtUSD 117.8M
Current ratio3.28×

Net debt stands at 3% of equity.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B1.01.01.01.00.70.50.40.50.50.50.60.60.60.60.50.40.3
Operating income $B0.50.50.60.70.40.20.2−0.00.2−0.20.20.20.30.20.20.10.1
EBITDA $B0.70.70.70.80.50.30.30.10.3−0.10.40.30.40.30.30.20.2
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.0············
Net income $B0.50.50.60.61.10.20.1−0.00.1−0.40.1−0.00.0−0.10.0−0.10.0
EPS, diluted $26.7626.0528.9527.2851.156.458.09−3.1010.70−3.341.07−0.040.34−0.960.12−1.360.66
Dividend / sh $3.453.253.053.001.50············
Payout %131211113············
ROE %13.715.720.724.167.416.016.7−5.316.2−55.115.3−0.67.2−23.83.2−25.68.9
Shares out B0.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.020.110.110.110.110.110.110.110.11·

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 66 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of 19 fiscal years. 10 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityDeep Sea Foreign Transportation of Freight
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code 1T
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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