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Encore Capital Group Inc. ECPG

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.8B
▲ 34.4% YoY
$256.8M
$126.9M
▼ 0.2% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Encore Capital Group, Inc. is an international specialty finance company providing debt recovery solutions and other related services for consumers across a broad range of financial assets. Encore Capital Group, Inc. primarily purchases portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables at deep discounts to face value and manages them by working with individuals as they repay their obligations and work toward financial recovery. Encore Capital Group, Inc.'s headquarters is located in San Diego, California 92108. As of December 31, 2025, Encore Capital Group, Inc. had approximately 7,350 employees, of which approximately 21% were in the United States and 79% were in its international locations.

Written from the business description in ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 25 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 1.8B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.8 · Net income 0.3
1.0B2.0B-0.1B-0.2B
2009201220152018202120242025
Compound annual growth
+8.1%
+3.3%
+4.6%
+11.1%
+9.7%
+3.9%
+19.0%
+11.7%
+13.5%
+10.3%
+20.5%
+12.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +3.3% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +3.9%, earnings per share at +10.3%.

The share count fell from 0.03B 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

15 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 35.4% · Net 14.5%
10%20%30%-5%-10%-15%
200920172025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 29.5%
10%20%-5%-10%-15%
200920172025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have total assets or current liabilities for this period.

Each USD of equity produced 29 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 90.4M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 126.9
100M200M
200920172025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 90.4
150M300M
2012201420162019202120232025

USD 90.4M in buybacks — 35% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 5.3B
CashUSD 156.8M
Gross debtUSD 4.0B
Net debtUSD 3.9B

Net debt stands at 397% of equity.

The 17-year record

17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
ECPG, 17-year financial record
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B1.81.31.21.41.61.51.41.31.11.11.11.00.80.60.40.40.3
Operating income $B0.60.20.00.50.60.50.40.40.30.20.30.30.20.20.10.10.1
EBITDA $B0.70.20.10.50.70.60.50.40.40.30.30.30.20.20.10.1◌
Income tax $B0.10.00.00.10.10.10.00.00.10.00.00.00.00.10.00.00.0
Net income $B0.3−0.1−0.20.20.40.20.20.10.10.10.00.10.10.10.10.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.10.10.10.20.30.30.20.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
EPS, diluted $10.91−5.83−8.727.4611.266.685.334.063.152.961.693.772.872.692.371.951.37
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout % — not applicable: no dividend—————————————————
ROE %29.5−16.3−19.516.529.218.918.216.614.613.37.417.415.417.918.118.013.6
Shares out B0.020.020.020.020.020.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.020.020.02◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 50 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 17 of the 17 fiscal years we could check. Three checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2010. Two checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2009.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityShort-Term Business Credit Institutions
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2009

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