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Dolby Laboratories, Inc. DLB
18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
10 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
In brief
What this company does
Written from the business description in Dolby Laboratories, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 18 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
USD 1.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B
Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.3 · Net income 0.3
Compound annual growth
+2.5%
+3.0%
+3.3%
+2.6%
+11.5%
+2.0%
+3.5%
−0.7%
+13.1%
+3.1%
+4.1%
+0.4%
+9.0%
+8.4%
+12.1%
−28.7%
+3.0%
+5.7%
+0.3%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue compounded at +3.0% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +2.0%, earnings per share at +3.1%.
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
19 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin
Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 19.6% · Net 19.0%
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 10.0%
Each USD of equity produced 10 cents of profit this year.
The 18-year record
18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| Operating income $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 |
| EBITDA $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | · |
| Income tax $B | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Net income $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 2.62 | 2.69 | 2.05 | 1.81 | 2.97 | 2.25 | 2.44 | 0.39 | 2.00 | 1.81 | 1.75 | 1.99 | 1.84 | 2.46 | 2.75 | 2.46 | 2.11 | 1.74 |
| Dividend / sh $ | 1.32 | 1.23 | 1.11 | 1.02 | 0.91 | 0.88 | 0.79 | 0.67 | 0.58 | 0.50 | 0.42 | 0.00 | 4.00 | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | 50 | 44 | 52 | 54 | 29 | 38 | 30 | 158 | 28 | 26 | 23 | 0 | 216 | 0 | 0 | · | · | · |
| ROE % | 10.0 | 10.8 | 8.7 | 7.6 | 12.3 | 9.8 | 10.9 | 1.9 | 10.1 | 9.8 | 10.3 | 12.9 | 11.8 | 15.6 | 19.7 | 20.1 | 18.1 | · |
| Shares out B | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | 0.05 | 0.05 | · | · | · | · | · | · |
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Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 88 reconciliationsAUDITED
Reconciled in 18 of 19 fiscal years. 7 checks could not be computed.
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ActivityPatent Owners & Lessors
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsSeptember 27
Data on record since2008