Gates Industrial Corp. Ltd. GTES
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What this company does
Written from the business description in Gates Industrial Corporation plc's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 12 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
Revenue compounded at +4.3% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +25.9%, earnings per share at +28.9%.
The share count fell from 0.29B to 0.25B — 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
Each USD of equity produced 8 cents of profit this year.
The 8-year record
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
| Operating income $B | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| EBITDA $B | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| Income tax $B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | −0.0 | −0.5 | 0.0 |
| Net income $B | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 0.96 | 0.74 | 0.84 | 0.77 | 1.00 | 0.27 | 2.37 | 0.84 |
| Dividend / sh $ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ | ◌ |
| Payout % — not applicable: no dividend | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| ROE % | 7.9 | 6.2 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 10.1 | 2.9 | 26.0 | ◌ |
| Shares out B | 0.25 | 0.26 | 0.26 | 0.28 | 0.29 | 0.29 | 0.29 | 0.29 |
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Company facts, as filed
Reconciled in 8 of the 8 fiscal years we could check. 24 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2019. 11 checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2018. 11 checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2018.