Urban Outfitters Inc. URBN
What this company does
Written from the business description in URBAN OUTFITTERS INC's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 1 April 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.
Revenue compounded at +12.3% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +227.4%, earnings per share at +247.4%.
The share count fell from 0.10B to 0.09B — 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.
Each USD of equity produced 18 cents of profit this year.
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue $B | 6.2 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| Operating income $B | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| EBITDA $B | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | · |
| Income tax $B | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Net income $B | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Free cash flow $B | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | −0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| EPS, diluted $ | 5.06 | 4.26 | 3.05 | 1.70 | 3.13 | 0.01 | 1.67 | 2.72 | 0.96 | 1.86 | 1.78 | 1.68 | 1.89 | 1.62 | 1.19 | 1.60 | 1.28 | 1.17 |
| Dividend / sh $ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Payout % | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| ROE % | 17.6 | 17.6 | 14.7 | 9.0 | 19.3 | 0.1 | 11.4 | 21.4 | 8.3 | 17.8 | 18.2 | 15.4 | 18.5 | 19.6 | 15.0 | 20.2 | 18.7 | 18.9 |
| Shares out B | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.16 | 0.17 | · |
Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.
This company against its peers
Reconciled in 16 of 19 fiscal years. 2 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. 7 checks could not be computed.