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Universe Pharmaceuticals Inc. UPC

7 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$17.9B
▼ 22.4% YoY
$-3.7B
$-5.3B
In brief

What this company does

Universe Pharmaceuticals Inc., through its PRC operating entities, manufactures, markets, sells and distributes TCMD products targeting the elderly. It currently produces 13 varieties of TCMD products, which are sold in approximately 261 cities across 30 provinces in China. Through its subsidiary Universe Trade, it also sells biomedical drugs, medical instruments, Traditional Chinese Medicine Pieces and dietary supplements manufactured by third-party pharmaceutical companies. The PRC operating entities' major customers are pharmaceutical distributors, hospitals, clinics and drugstore chains, primarily located in Jiangxi Province, Jiangsu Province, Guangdong Province, Hubei Province, Fujian Province, Guangxi Province and Shandong Province, and 23 other provinces in China. As of September 30, 2025, it had a total of 216 employees, all of whom are located in China.

Written from the business description in Universe Pharmaceuticals INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 29 January 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 17.9B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 7-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 17.9 · Net income -3.7
20B-4B-8B2019202020212022202320242025
Compound annual growth
+663.4%
+257.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +257.2% 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
−21 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -16.3% · Net -20.6%
10%20%30%-10%-20%-30%2019202020212022202320242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -7.2%
20%40%60%-10%-20%2019202020212022202320242025

Each USD of equity lost 7 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF -5.3
-4B-8B2019202020212022202320242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2019 · Dividends 16.0 · Net buybacks —
8M16M2019

Total assetsUSD 69.3B
EquityUSD 56.1B
CashUSD 33.6B
Gross debtUSD 2.1B
Net debtUSD -31.5B
Current ratio4.07×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 7-year record
7 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019
Revenue $B17.923.032.30.00.00.00.0
Operating income $B−2.9−8.0−4.0−0.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B−2.4−7.5−3.5−0.00.00.00.0
Income tax $B·0.62.30.00.00.00.0
Net income $B−3.7−8.7−6.6−0.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B−5.3−9.71.1−0.0−0.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $−8.06−626.96−1089.21−1309.113.580.470.47
Dividend / sh $·······
Payout %······212
ROE %−7.2−23.8−20.8−0.033.445.561.0
Shares out B0.000.000.020.000.020.02·

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 33 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 7 of 19 fiscal years. 62 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityPharmaceutical Preparations
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inoutside the United States — SEC code F4
Fiscal year endsSeptember 30
SEC categoryemerging growth company
Data on record since2019

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