ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal's revenue fell 1.7% to $61.4 billion in fiscal 2025. Its operating margin was 5.9%, up from 5.3% a year earlier. Free cash flow was $471 million, up 5.4%. It paid out $804 million in dividends and buybacks, 171% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 3.2%.
Operating margin is operating income as a share of revenue. Free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital spending. Return on capital is after-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
Revenue and margins
Net income and earnings per share
From fiscal 2016 to 2025, earnings per share grew 9.2% a year and net income 6.6% a year, as buybacks cut the share count by 20%.
Returns on capital
Cash flow
Payouts and share count
Balance sheet
| Fiscal year end | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and short-term investments | 4.2 | 9.3 | 7.7 | 6.4 | 5.4 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 8.2 | 11.4 | 10.5 | 11.4 | 13.2 |
| Net debt (negative means net cash) | 4.0 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 5.0 | 7.8 |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 1.2x |
| Debt to equity | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.2x |
| Interest coverage | 47.5x | 25.6x | 3.3x | 6.5x | 6.3x |
| Current ratio | 1.4x | 1.7x | 1.5x | 1.4x | 1.4x |
| Quick ratio | 0.6x | 0.8x | 0.7x | 0.6x | 0.5x |
Piotroski F-score
The F-score counts how many of nine simple tests of profitability, funding and efficiency a company passed in a year (Piotroski, 2000). The more tests passed, the stronger the year: 8 or 9 is strong, 0 to 2 weak. Companies that report no gross profit are scored on the other eight.
| Test | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net income is positive | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Cash from operations is positive | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Return on assets rose | Fail | Pass | Pass |
| Cash from operations exceeds net income | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Debt fell relative to assets | Pass | Fail | Fail |
| Current ratio rose | Fail | Fail | Pass |
| Share count didn't rise | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Gross margin rose | Fail | Pass | Fail |
| Revenue rose relative to assets | Fail | Fail | Pass |
| F-score | 5 of 9 | 6 of 9 | 7 of 9 |
| Accruals ratio | −7.1% | −3.8% | −1.8% |
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10 years of figures
| Fiscal year | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||||||
| Revenue | 56.8 | 68.7 | 76.0 | 70.6 | 53.3 | 76.6 | 79.8 | 68.3 | 62.4 | 61.4 |
| Revenue growth | −10.7% | 20.9% | 10.7% | −7.1% | −24.6% | 43.7% | 4.3% | −14.5% | −8.5% | −1.7% |
| Gross profit | 6.4 | 7.8 | 9.0 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 19.2 | 12.5 | 4.7 | 5.8 | 4.4 |
| Research and development | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Operating income | 4.2 | 5.4 | 6.5 | −0.6 | 2.1 | 17.0 | 10.3 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| Net income | 1.8 | 4.6 | 5.1 | −2.5 | −0.7 | 15.0 | 9.3 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 3.2 |
| Diluted EPS (US$) | 1.86 | 4.46 | 5.04 | −2.42 | −0.64 | 13.49 | 10.18 | 1.09 | 1.69 | 4.11 |
| Diluted shares (millions) | 955 | 1,024 | 1,021 | 1,013 | 1,140 | 1,108 | 914 | 845 | 791 | 766 |
| Cash flow | ||||||||||
| Cash from operations | 2.7 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 6.0 | 4.1 | 9.9 | 10.2 | 7.6 | 4.9 | 4.8 |
| Capital expenditure | 2.4 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.3 |
| Free cash flow | 0.3 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 6.9 | 6.7 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 |
| Dividends paid | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| Share buybacks | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 5.2 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.3 |
| Acquisitions | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Stock-based compensation | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — | — | — |
| Balance sheet at fiscal year end | ||||||||||
| Cash and short-term investments | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 9.3 | 7.7 | 6.4 | 5.4 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 12.5 | 12.9 | 12.4 | 14.1 | 12.1 | 8.2 | 11.4 | 10.5 | 11.4 | 13.2 |
| Total assets | 75.1 | 85.3 | 91.2 | 87.9 | 82.1 | 90.5 | 94.5 | 93.9 | 89.4 | 97.7 |
| Total liabilities | 42.8 | 44.4 | 47.1 | 47.4 | 41.8 | 39.2 | 39.0 | 37.8 | 38.1 | 41.2 |
| Shareholders' equity | 30.1 | 38.8 | 42.1 | 38.5 | 38.3 | 49.1 | 53.2 | 54.0 | 49.2 | 54.5 |
| Margins and ratios | ||||||||||
| Gross margin | 11.2% | 11.4% | 11.8% | 2.5% | 7.8% | 25.1% | 15.7% | 6.9% | 9.3% | 7.1% |
| Operating margin | 7.3% | 7.9% | 8.6% | −0.9% | 4.0% | 22.2% | 12.9% | 3.4% | 5.3% | 5.9% |
| Net margin | 3.1% | 6.7% | 6.8% | −3.5% | −1.4% | 19.5% | 11.7% | 1.4% | 2.1% | 5.1% |
| Free cash flow margin | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.2% | 3.5% | 3.1% | 9.0% | 8.4% | 4.4% | 0.7% | 0.8% |
| Return on capital | — | 10.6% | 12.4% | −0.9% | 2.2% | 28.7% | 15.4% | 3.3% | 2.9% | 5.4% |
| Return on equity | — | 13.3% | 12.7% | −6.1% | −1.9% | 34.2% | 18.2% | 1.7% | 2.6% | 6.1% |
| Return on assets | — | 5.7% | 5.8% | −2.7% | −0.9% | 17.3% | 10.1% | 1.0% | 1.5% | 3.4% |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 3.8x | 1.3x | 0.2x | 0.2x | 0.6x | 0.8x | 1.2x |