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Liquidity Services Inc. LQDT

17 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$476.7M
▲ 31.2% YoY
$28.1M
▲ 40.5% YoY
$59.0M
▼ 3.8% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Liquidity Services, Inc. connects buyers and sellers through e-commerce auction marketplaces, search engines, and asset management and auction software, along with related services. During the year ended September 30, 2025, it generated GMV of $1.6 billion and revenue of $477.7 million. The company has five operating segments and three reportable segments — GovDeals, Retail Supply Chain Group (RSCG) and Capital Assets Group (CAG) — and combines its separate Machinio and Software Solutions operating segments into a Machinio & Software Solutions grouping for segment reporting purposes. Liquidity Services was incorporated in Delaware as Liquidation.com in November 1999.

Written from the business description in LIQUIDITY SERVICES INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 476.7M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 17-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 476.7 · Net income 28.1
200M400M-40M-80M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+19.4%
+18.3%
+1.8%
+3.8%
−11.4%
−10.2%
+4.6%
−14.4%
+32.8%
+2.4%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +18.3% a year over five years.

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
6 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 7.4% · Net 5.9%
5%10%15%-10%-20%-30%200920112013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 14.6%
20%40%-10%-20%-30%200920112013201520172019202120232025
Gross margin43.8%
Operating margin7.4%
Net margin5.9%
Return on assets7.8%
EBITDAUSD 45.5M

Each USD of equity produced 15 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 16.0M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 59.0
25.0M50.0M-20.0M200920112013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 16.0
20M40M-8M-16M2009201120142019202120232025
Dividends paid—
Net buybacksUSD 16.0M
Share of profit56.8%
Consecutive raises—

USD 16.0M in buybacks — 57% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 375.1M
EquityUSD 203.2M
CashUSD 174.6M
Current ratio1.39×

Equity funds 54% of total assets.

The 17-year record
17 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012201120102009
Revenue $B0.50.40.30.30.30.20.20.20.30.30.40.50.50.50.30.30.2
Operating income $B0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.10.10.10.10.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.00.00.00.10.00.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.10.10.10.10.00.00.0
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.00.00.00.00.1−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.0−0.1−0.10.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.10.10.00.00.10.0−0.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $0.870.630.651.201.45−0.11−0.58−0.36−1.25−1.96−3.500.971.261.470.290.440.21
Dividend / sh $·················
Payout %·················
ROE %14.611.613.327.941.3−3.3−15.7−8.9−26.5−31.7−39.39.614.623.56.211.15.5
Shares out B0.040.040.040.040.040.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.03·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures · 3 divergences in 75 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 14 of 19 fiscal years. 3 of those reconciliations are divergences — the figures exist but don't fit the formula this check expects; that isn't the same as an error. 20 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures3 divergent
ActivityServices-Business Services, NEC
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsSeptember 30
Data on record since2009

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