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Fuller H B Co. FUL

18 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
17 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$3.5B
▼ 2.7% YoY
$152.0M
▲ 16.7% YoY
$121.2M
▼ 25.7% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

H.B. Fuller Company formulates, manufactures, and markets adhesives, sealants, and other specialty chemical products worldwide. Its sales operations span 34 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia Pacific, India, the Middle East, and Africa. As of November 29, 2025, it had sales offices and manufacturing plants in 24 countries outside the United States and satellite sales offices in another 9 countries. As of November 29, 2025, it had approximately 7,100 employees in 44 countries, including approximately 2,500 employees based in the U.S. No single customer accounted for more than 10 percent of its consolidated net revenue. As of November 30, 2024, its three operating segments consisted of Hygiene, Health and Consumable Adhesives, Engineering Adhesives, and Construction Adhesives. At the beginning of fiscal 2025, it reorganized its operating segments, selling its North America Flooring business and combining its Insulating Glass, Woodworking, and Composite businesses with its Construction Adhesives Roofing and Building Envelope and Infrastructure businesses to form the Building Adhesive Solutions operating segment. H.B. Fuller Company was founded in 1887 and incorporated as a Minnesota corporation in 1915.

Written from the business description in FULLER H B CO's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 22 January 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 3.5B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 18-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 3.5 · Net income 0.2
2B3B
2008201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
−2.5%
+4.5%
+5.2%
+7.0%
−5.5%
+4.2%
+5.8%
+5.2%
−5.5%
+3.1%
+5.0%
+4.5%
+7.9%
+7.4%
+6.2%
+8.4%
+37.1%
+24.8%
+9.6%
+14.3%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +4.5% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew slower: net income at +4.2%, earnings per share at +3.1%.

The share count rose from 0.05B to 0.05B over the period.

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 · · Net 4.4%
5%10%
200820162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 7.9%
5%10%15%
200820162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have a clean operating profit figure for this period.

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

Cash & shareholders

USD 101.1M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 121.2
100M200M-50M-100M
200820162025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 50.3 · Net buybacks 50.9
100M200M-15M-30MDividendsNet buybacks
2008201120142017202020232025

USD 50.3M in dividends and USD 50.9M in buybacks — 67% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 5.2B
EquityUSD 2.0B
CashUSD 107.2M
Gross debtUSD 2.0B
Net debtUSD 1.9B
Current ratio1.70×

Net debt stands at 95% of equity.

The 18-year record

18 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
FUL, 18-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008
Revenue $B3.53.63.53.73.32.82.93.02.32.12.12.12.01.91.41.31.21.4
Operating income $B◌0.30.40.30.30.20.20.20.10.20.20.10.20.20.10.10.10.0
EBITDA $B◌0.50.50.50.40.40.40.40.20.30.20.20.30.20.20.10.20.0
Income tax $B0.10.10.10.10.10.00.0−0.00.00.00.10.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Net income $B0.20.10.10.20.20.10.10.20.10.10.10.00.10.10.10.10.10.0
Free cash flow $B0.10.20.30.10.10.20.20.20.10.10.2−0.10.00.10.10.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $2.752.302.593.262.972.362.523.291.152.371.690.971.892.481.791.431.700.36
Dividend / sh $0.930.860.810.740.670.650.640.610.590.550.510.460.390.330.290.280.270.26
Payout %333730222227251850233046201316191671
ROE %7.97.38.611.210.89.511.015.56.013.49.85.511.316.913.311.614.83.5
Shares out B0.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.050.05

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 88 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 18 of the 18 fiscal years we could check. Four checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2009. One check was skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityAdhesives & Sealants
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inMinnesota
Fiscal year endsNovember 28
Data on record since2008

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