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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

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

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
0.5B1.0B
20142017202020232025
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 the five years to FY2025.

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%
201420192025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 7.9%
20%40%-5%-10%
201420192025
Three returns, three denominators.

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
50M100M
201420192025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 183.1
100M200M
201520172019202120232025

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—not applicable◌not available in our data
DFIN, 12-year financial record
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 % — not applicable: no dividend————————————
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◌◌◌◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 46 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 12 of the 12 fiscal years we could check. 16 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2015. 10 checks were skipped: cost of revenue is not tagged before 2017. Seven checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2014.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Miscellaneous Business Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2014

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