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Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. DFIN

12 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$767.0M
▼ 1.9% YoY
$32.4M
▼ 64.9% YoY
$107.8M
▲ 2.5% YoY
In brief

What this company does

DFIN provides regulatory filing and deal solutions through software, technology-enabled services, and print and distribution solutions to public and private companies, mutual funds and other regulated investment firms. As of December 31, 2025, the company had approximately 1,750 employees, approximately 84% of whom were located in the United States and approximately 16% in international locations. It operates through four reportable segments: Capital Markets – Software Solutions (CM-SS), Capital Markets – Compliance and Communications Management (CM-CCM), Investment Companies – Software Solutions (IC-SS) and Investment Companies – Compliance and Communications Management (IC-CCM). The CM-SS segment provides Venue and ActiveDisclosure subscriptions and related services to public and private companies to help manage transactional and compliance processes, collaborate, and tag, validate and file SEC documents. The CM-CCM segment provides tech-enabled services and print and distribution solutions to public and private companies for deal solutions and SEC compliance requirements. The IC-SS segment provides clients with the Arc Suite platform, a suite of cloud-based solutions including ArcDigital, ArcPro, ArcRegulatory and ArcReporting, along with related services for storing and managing compliance and regulatory information. The IC-CCM segment provides clients with tech-enabled services and print and distribution solutions for creating, filing and distributing regulatory communications and investor communications, including iXBRL-formatted filings through the SEC's EDGAR system. On October 1, 2016, DFIN became an independent publicly traded company through the distribution by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company of shares of DFIN common stock to RRD stockholders.

Written from the business description in Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 17 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 767.0M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 12-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 0.8 · Net income 0.0
0.4B0.8B2014201620182020202220242025
Compound annual growth
−2.7%
−3.0%
−3.1%
−31.9%
−11.0%
−28.7%
−9.8%
+3.7%
+73.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at −3.0% a year over five years.

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
4 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 18.4% · Net 4.2%
10%20%-1%-2%2014201620182020202220242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 7.9%
20%40%-5%-10%2014201620182020202220242025

Each USD of equity produced 8 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 183.1M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 107.8
50M100M2014201620182020202220242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 183.1
80M160M201520172019202120232025

USD 183.1M in buybacks — 565% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 800.4M
EquityUSD 379.2M
CashUSD 24.5M
Gross debtUSD 171.3M
Net debtUSD 146.8M
Current ratio1.06×

Net debt stands at 39% of equity.

The 12-year record
12 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014
Revenue $B0.80.80.80.81.00.90.91.01.01.01.01.1
Operating income $B0.10.10.10.10.20.00.10.10.10.10.20.1
EBITDA $B0.10.10.10.20.20.00.10.10.10.10.20.1
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.10.00.00.00.00.00.10.0
Net income $B0.00.10.10.10.1−0.00.00.10.00.10.10.1
Free cash flow $B0.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.10.10.10.1
EPS, diluted $1.153.062.693.174.14−0.761.102.160.291.803.221.77
Dividend / sh $············
Payout %············
ROE %7.922.022.529.046.7−10.015.239.27.416.121.416.3
Shares out B0.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.03····

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 46 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 12 of 19 fiscal years. 40 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-Miscellaneous Business Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2014

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