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Dolby Laboratories, Inc. DLB

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported
SEC FILINGS ONLY10 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
Revenue · FY2025
$1.3B
▲ 5.9% vs FY2024
Dividend streak
10 yrs
Raised every year since 2016
EPS · FY25
Dividend / sh · FY25
$1.32
Payout · FY25
50%
ROE · FY25
10.0%
Net margin · FY25
18.9%
Dividend coverage
2.0×
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Result
USD 1.3B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue Net income
0.40.81.21.61.30.32008201120142017202020232025
0.40.81.21.61.30.32016201920222025

19 cents of every revenue dollar became profit this year.

Per share
Diluted EPS, FY2025
EPS Dividend
241.322008201120142017202020232025
241.322016201920222025

Earnings covered the dividend 2.0 times — the rest stayed in the company.

Profitability
10.0%
Return on equity, FY2025
ROE
8162410.0%2008201120142017202020232025
8162410.0%2016201920222025
Operating margin19.6%
Net margin18.9%
Return on assets8.0%

Each USD of equity produced 10 cents of profit this year.

Returned to shareholders
USD 207.9M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Dividends paidUSD 126.6M
Net buybacksUSD 81.3M
Share of profit81.5%
Consecutive raises10 years

USD 126.6M in dividends and USD 81.3M in buybacks — 82% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Growth
+3.0% a year
revenue, compounded over five years
CAGR
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue
+2.5%
+3.0%
+3.3%
+2.6%
Net income
+11.5%
+2.0%
+3.5%
−0.7%
EPS, diluted
+13.1%
+3.1%
+4.1%
+0.4%
Dividend / share
+9.0%
+8.4%
+12.1%
Returned to shareholders
−28.7%
+3.0%
+5.7%
+0.3%

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where the series crosses a loss.

Share base
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 3.2B
total assets, end of FY2025
Total assetsUSD 3.2B
EquityUSD 2.6B
CashUSD 701.9M
Current ratio3.17×

Equity funds 81% of total assets.

History
18 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
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
EPS, diluted $
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
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
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Shares out B
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks figures not disclosed in the filing for that year.

How we verifyAUDITED
70 of 70
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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