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WD 40 Co. WDFC

16 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
15 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$620.0M
▲ 5.0% YoY
$91.0M
▲ 30.7% YoY
$83.4M
▼ 5.0% YoY
In brief

What this company does

WD-40 Company develops and sells products used to solve problems in workshops, factories, and homes around the world. It markets and sells its products in more than 176 countries and territories worldwide, primarily through hardware stores, automotive parts outlets, industrial distributors, mass retail and home center stores, value retailers, grocery stores, online retailers, warehouse club stores, farm supply stores, sport retailers, and independent bike dealers. It employed 714 employees globally, distributed across 18 countries, with approximately 35% in the Americas, 40% in EIMEA, 15% in Asia-Pacific, and 10% in corporate roles. Its sales come from two product groups: maintenance products and homecare and cleaning products. Its WD-40 Multi-Use Product is a multi-purpose maintenance product that functions as a lubricant, rust preventative, penetrant, and moisture displacer. It also sells homecare and cleaning products, a portfolio of brands sold in certain locations worldwide.

Written from the business description in WD-40 Company's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 October 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 620.0M
Revenue, FY2025 · full 16-year series below
Revenue $M Net income $M
FY2025 · Revenue 620.0 · Net income 91.0
250.0M500.0M201020122014201620182020202220242025
Compound annual growth
+6.1%
+8.7%
+5.1%
+4.5%
+10.6%
+8.4%
+7.3%
+6.4%
+10.9%
+8.7%
+8.2%
+7.9%
+6.5%
+7.1%
+9.6%
+9.1%
−4.2%
+3.4%
+2.3%
+9.2%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +8.7% a year over five years — but profit grew slower: net income at +8.4%, earnings per share at +8.7%.

The share count fell from 0.01B to 0.01B — 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.

Profitability
15 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 16.7% · Net 14.7%
5%10%15%201020122014201620182020202220242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 36.5%
20%40%201020122014201620182020202220242025

Each USD of equity produced 36 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 62.6M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 83.4
40M80M201020122014201620182020202220242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends 50.3 · Net buybacks 12.3
25.0M50.0MDividendsNet buybacks201020122014201620182020202220242025

USD 50.3M in dividends and USD 12.3M in buybacks — 69% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 475.8M
EquityUSD 268.2M
CashUSD 58.1M
Gross debtUSD 87.0M
Net debtUSD 28.9M
Current ratio2.79×

Net debt stands at 11% of equity.

The 16-year record
16 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010
Revenue $B0.60.60.50.50.50.40.40.40.40.40.40.40.40.30.30.3
Operating income $B0.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
EBITDA $B0.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Income tax $B0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
Net income $B0.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.10.00.00.00.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.10.10.1−0.00.10.10.00.10.00.10.00.00.00.00.00.1
EPS, diluted $6.695.114.834.905.094.404.024.643.723.643.042.872.542.202.142.15
Dividend / sh $3.703.473.273.062.782.622.372.111.891.641.481.331.221.141.081.00
Payout %55686862545959455145484648515046
ROE %36.531.633.134.638.939.737.244.237.835.327.425.121.818.418.318.4
Shares out B0.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.010.020.020.02·

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 78 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 16 of 19 fiscal years. 17 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityMiscellaneous Chemical Products
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsAugust 31
Data on record since2010

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