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Gildan Activewear Inc. GIL

10 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
5 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$3.6B
▲ 10.7% YoY
$398.9M
▼ 0.5% YoY
$499.9M
▲ 40.4% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Gildan is a vertically integrated manufacturer of everyday basic apparel, including activewear and innerwear, the latter including hosiery, underwear, intimates and other fringe products. In fiscal 2025, it sold its products in the United States, Canada and other international markets, which accounted for 89.9%, 3.5% and 6.6% of total sales, respectively. Its manufacturing operations are situated in four main hubs, specifically in the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, and Asia. For fiscal 2025, its sales totaled $3,619 million. In fiscal 2025, its largest customer accounted for 33.2% of its total sales, and its top ten customers accounted for 72.5% of its total sales. Gildan employs approximately 80,000 employees worldwide. Its primary products include activewear tops and bottoms, underwear tops and bottoms, socks and intimates products; in fiscal 2025, Activewear sales accounted for 85% of total net sales, and Innerwear sales accounted for 15% of total net sales.

Written from the business description in Gildan Activewear Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 3.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 10-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 3.6 · Net income 0.4
2B3B
2016201920222025
Compound annual growth
+3.8%
+12.8%
−9.7%
−3.8%
+10.2%
+42.5%
+3.0%
+34.7%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +12.8% 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

11 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 17.1% · Net 11.0%
10%20%-5%-10%
201620202025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 15.9%
10%20%30%-5%-10%
201620202025
Three returns, three denominators.

Each USD of equity produced 16 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 135.2M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 499.9
200M400M
201620202025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 135.2 · Net buybacks ·
50M100M
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025

USD 135.2M in dividends — 34% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 10.5B
EquityUSD 3.6B
CashUSD 284.5M
Gross debtUSD 4.3B
Net debtUSD 4.0B
Current ratio2.11×

Net debt stands at 113% of equity.

The 10-year record

10 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
GIL, 10-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016
Revenue $B3.63.33.23.22.92.02.82.92.82.6
Operating income $B0.60.60.60.60.7−0.20.30.40.40.4
EBITDA $B0.80.80.80.70.8−0.00.40.60.60.5
Income tax $B0.10.10.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.40.40.50.50.6−0.20.30.40.40.3
Free cash flow $B0.50.40.30.20.50.40.20.40.50.4
EPS, diluted $2.612.463.032.933.07−1.141.271.661.611.47
Dividend / sh $0.900.820.740.680.460.150.540.450.37◌
Payout %3433252315−1442272321
ROE %15.923.527.828.534.9−13.313.817.617.416.4
Shares out B0.190.150.170.180.190.200.200.210.220.23

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 50 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 10 of the 10 fiscal years we could check. 18 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2016. Nine checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2016. Nine checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2016.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityApparel & Other Finishd Prods of Fabrics & Similar Matl
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code Z4
Fiscal year endsJanuary 3
Data on record since2016

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