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Unilever PLC UL
11 fiscal years on record · EUR · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
In brief
What this company does
Written from the business description in UNILEVER PLC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 12 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Growth
EUR 50.5B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 11-year series below
Revenue €B
Net income €B
FY2025 · Revenue 50.5 · Net income 9.5
Compound annual growth
−5.6%
−0.1%
−0.5%
+7.4%
+11.2%
+6.8%
+13.1%
+15.3%
+9.6%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs
Revenue compounded at −0.1% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +11.2%, earnings per share at +15.3%.
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
20 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin
Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 17.9% · Net 19.8%
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 53.3%
Each EUR of equity produced 53 cents of profit this year.
The 11-year record
11 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · EUR
row low → row highnegative
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue €B | 50.5 | 52.5 | 51.7 | 60.1 | 52.4 | 50.7 | 52.0 | 51.0 | 53.7 | 52.7 | 53.3 |
| Operating income €B | 9.0 | 8.8 | 9.0 | 10.8 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 12.6 | 9.0 | 7.8 | 7.5 |
| EBITDA €B | 10.3 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 12.5 | 10.4 | 10.3 | 10.7 | 14.6 | 11.0 | 9.3 | 8.9 |
| Income tax €B | 2.5 | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.0 |
| Net income €B | 9.5 | 5.7 | 6.5 | 7.6 | 6.0 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 9.4 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 4.9 |
| Free cash flow €B | 6.9 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 5.8 | 6.9 | 8.2 | 6.8 | 6.0 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 5.5 |
| EPS, diluted € | 4.32 | 2.58 | 2.89 | 2.99 | 2.32 | 2.12 | 2.14 | 3.48 | 2.14 | 1.82 | 1.72 |
| Dividend / sh € | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| ROE % | 53.3 | 30.2 | 34.9 | 42.3 | 37.4 | 39.2 | 45.8 | 75.4 | 40.4 | 31.7 | · |
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 in 53 reconciliationsAUDITED
Reconciled in 11 of 19 fiscal years. 42 checks could not be computed.
EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivitySoap, Detergents, Cleang Preparations, Perfumes, Cosmetics
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2015