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Imperial OIL Ltd. IMO

19 fiscal years on record · CAD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
18 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
CAD 47.1B
▼ 8.6% YoY
CAD 3.3B
▼ 31.8% YoY
CAD 4.7B
▲ 14.3% YoY

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In brief

What this company does

Imperial Oil Limited is active in all phases of the petroleum industry in Canada, including the exploration for, and production and sale of, crude oil and natural gas. It also pursues lower-emission business opportunities including carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, lower-emission fuels, and lithium. At the end of 2025, it had about 5,000 regular employees. Operations are conducted in three main segments: Upstream, which includes the exploration for and production of crude oil, natural gas, synthetic crude oil and bitumen; Downstream, which consists of the transportation and refining of crude oil, the blending of refined products and the distribution and marketing of those products; and Chemical, which consists of the manufacturing and marketing of various petrochemicals. It owns and operates three refineries, which process predominantly Canadian crude oil. The company markets petroleum products throughout Canada, most notably under the Esso and Mobil brands. Exxon Mobil Corporation owns approximately 69.6 percent of the outstanding shares of the company. Imperial Oil Limited was incorporated under the laws of Canada in 1880, and its head and principal office is located in Calgary, Alberta.

Written from the business description in IMPERIAL OIL LTD's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 18 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

CAD 47.1B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 19-year series below
Revenue CAD B Net income CAD B
FY2025 · Revenue 47.1 · Net income 3.3
25.0B50.0B
2007201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
−7.6%
+16.0%
−23.6%
+11.3%
+2.6%
−17.3%
+17.2%
+6.3%
+25.4%
+26.8%
+18.2%
+13.5%
−13.8%
+38.1%
+26.3%
+18.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +16.0% 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

7 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 9.1% · Net 6.9%
50%100%
200720162025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 14.3%
20%40%-5%
200720162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on capital employedNot available: we don't have a clean operating profit figure for this period.

Each CAD of equity produced 14 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

CAD 4.6B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow CAD B
FY2025 · FCF 4.7
4B8B-2B-3B
200720162025
Net buybacks CAD B Dividends CAD B
FY2025 · Dividends 1.4 · Net buybacks 3.2
3B6BDividendsNet buybacks
2007201020132016201920222025

CAD 1.4B in dividends and CAD 3.2B in buybacks — 142% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsCAD 42.3B
EquityCAD 22.3B
CashCAD 1.1B
Gross debtCAD 3.5B
Net debtCAD 2.3B
Current ratio1.27×

Net debt stands at 10% of equity.

The 19-year record

19 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · CAD
row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
IMO, 19-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007
Revenue CAD B47.151.551.059.737.622.4◌◌◌◌◌◌◌4.44.23.63.5◌◌
Operating income CAD B4.36.26.49.53.3−2.42.03.10.62.41.95.03.75.04.43.02.2◌◌
EBITDA CAD B6.88.28.311.45.30.93.64.62.84.13.46.14.85.85.23.73.0◌◌
Income tax CAD B1.01.41.52.10.8−0.6−0.20.80.10.30.81.20.91.21.00.70.61.41.2
Net income CAD B3.34.84.97.32.5−1.92.22.30.52.21.13.82.83.83.42.21.63.93.2
Free cash flow CAD B4.74.11.99.04.4−0.12.82.41.80.9−0.8−0.9−3.0−0.80.6−0.6−0.73.02.7
EPS, diluted CAD 6.489.038.4911.443.48−2.532.882.860.582.551.324.453.324.423.952.591.844.363.41
Dividend / sh CAD 2.882.401.941.461.030.880.850.730.630.590.540.520.490.480.440.430.400.380.35
Payout %4326231228−3529251072340121411111622910
ROE %14.321.021.933.311.5−8.19.09.52.08.94.918.015.825.427.521.417.145.740.2
Shares out B0.480.510.540.580.680.730.740.780.830.850.850.850.850.850.850.850.850.860.90

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 72 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 19 of the 19 fiscal years we could check. Two checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityPetroleum Refining
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2007

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