
$88.7B−3% YoYFY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→Revenue reached $88.7B in 2025, compounding -4% a year since 2022 though the path has been bumpy.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
$5.6B−4% YoYFY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→Net income was $5.6B in 2025, compounding -22% a year over three years. Trailing twelve-month profit stands at $4.6B.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
-2.6%revenue growth, FY 2025
Off the axis: 2013 earnings +441.8% · 2021 earnings +859.8% - rebounds off a collapsed prior year.
→Revenue grew -3% in 2025 against a five-year average of +1%. Earnings fell +4% on top of it. 2013's +442% earnings rebound off a collapsed base and 2021's +860% earnings rebound off a collapsed base sits off the axis.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
$4.8B−23% YoYFY 2025
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→Free cash flow was $4.8B in 2025, compounding -20% a year since 2022. The trailing twelve months stand at $5.5B.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter, not a full fiscal year
→5 cents of every sales dollar became free cash in 2025, down 4 points since 2022.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-06-30), not a full fiscal year
→The biggest claim on each sales dollar is capital spending, at 4% of revenue (stock compensation 0%).
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
→Operating profit outgrew revenue in only 1 of the last 5 years. Costs are growing roughly in step with the business, so scale isn't yet paying for itself.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-06-30), not a full fiscal year
→Operating margin compressed 4 points to 9% since 2022. After everything, 6 cents of each sales dollar reaches net profit. UPS doesn't tag a gross-profit line in its filings, so the chart starts at operating margin.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-06-30), not a full fiscal year
→ROE of 30% sits well above ROCE of 14%. A meaningful share of the shareholder return is manufactured with leverage rather than operations.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
19.0xP/E today
◌ 2026 = at the latest close (2026-09-04), over the trailing twelve months; earlier years are annual averages
→At 19.0x earnings, the market is paying +29% more than UPS's own 11-year median of 14.7x. Expectations are elevated, so more has to go right to justify the price.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
7.5%FCF yield today
◌ 2026 = at the latest close (2026-09-04), over the trailing twelve months; earlier years are annual averages
→Every dollar of market value currently buys 7.5% of annual free cash flow, more than its 11-year median of 6.0% - the cash is cheaper than usual.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
◌ 2026 = the latest balance sheet (2026-06-30), not a fiscal year-end
→Debt of $24.5B sits against $4.7B of cash, or 1.6x shareholders' equity. Earnings cover interest 6.0 times - adequate, with less room than it looks in a downturn.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
→The company's own capital shrank from $17.3B in 2023 to $15.1B (-13%). Buybacks or losses are drawing the buffer down - the distinction matters.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
→Shareholders received $1.0B in buybacks and $5.4B in dividends in 2025. Stock compensation issued $73M of new shares in the same year, offsetting 1% of that.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
→The share count shrank 0.7% in 2025, averaging 1.0% a year over three years. Buybacks are concentrating your ownership: the same business, split fewer ways.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
→The dividend per share reached $6.35 in 2025, compounding +10% a year since 2020.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
◌ 2026 = trailing twelve months to the latest filed quarter (2026-06-30), not a full fiscal year
→The dividend consumed 97% of profit and 113% of free cash flow in 2025. That is a thin cushion: a bad year would put the payment under real pressure.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
→UPS earns 13.7% on the capital it employs, comfortably above the 10% most investors treat as the cost of capital. It was 24.7% in 2022, so the trend is down, though the pace has cooled.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30
→UPS has shrunk its share count -14% from 2011 to 2025, so each remaining share owns more of the business. Revenue per share is +95% over the same years.
Source: SEC EDGAR (XBRL company facts) · as at 2026-06-30