profit from every €100 of sales.
€0€100
Hapag-Lloyd
€128.50-0.39% today
+11.9% since Dec 21, 25
1-year low €109.701-year high €156.50
Trading in the middle of its range for the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2022 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay €24.82 for every €1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Hapag-Lloyd sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €34.5 billion in 2022 to €18.6 billion in 2025, with €910 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Hapag-Lloyd handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
€1.5B
Free cash flow 2025€1.1B
Bought back its own shares–
Paid as dividends€1.5B
Cash vs. debt€3.5B vs. €6.4B
Hapag-Lloyd vs. similar companies
Hapag-Lloyd grows the slowest of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from €100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per €1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hapag-Lloyd | 24.8× · Fair price | ||
 Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone | 34.2× · Expensive | ||
 A.P. Møller - Mærsk | 16.0× · Fair price | ||
 Cosco Shipping | 7.1× · Cheap | ||
 Shanghai International Port (Group) | 9.8× · Cheap |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Hapag-Lloyd's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34,543 | 17,930 | 19,112 | 18,633 | |
| 18,086 | 3,230 | 3,186 | 1,649 | |
| 17,413 | 2,532 | 2,540 | 953 | |
| 19,374 | 5,198 | 5,006 | 3,502 | |
| 17,030 | 2,934 | 2,386 | 910 | |
| 96.89 | 16.70 | 13.57 | 5.18 | |
| 52.4% | 18.0% | 16.7% | 8.9% | |
| 50.4% | 14.1% | 13.3% | 5.1% | |
| 49.3% | 16.4% | 12.5% | 4.9% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 38,687 | 28,994 | 33,617 | 28,907 |
| Cash | 15,185 | 5,725 | 5,481 | 3,475 |
| Total debt | 5,437 | 5,064 | 6,608 | 6,388 |
| Total liabilities | 10,776 | 10,232 | 12,753 | 10,920 |
| 27,893 | 18,690 | 20,795 | 17,930 | |
| 176 | 176 | 176 | 176 | |
| 36.7% | 9.6% | 7.5% | 3.6% | |
| 61.1% | 15.7% | 11.5% | 5.1% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19,503 | 4,966 | 4,365 | 2,533 | |
| 1,441 | 1,705 | 2,166 | 1,450 | |
| 18,063 | 3,261 | 2,199 | 1,082 | |
| Dividends paid | 6,165 | 11,088 | 1,640 | 1,457 |
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Valuation
- 24.8×
- –
- –
- 1.2×
- 1.2×
- 20.9×
- 7.3×
- 4.8%
- 4.0%
- 6.5%
Profitability
- 8.9%
- 5.1%
- 4.9%
- –
- 3.6%
- 14.4%
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- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −18.6%
- −62.3%
- –
- –
- +0.0%
Financial health
- 0.8×
- 0.36
- –
- 3.5×
- 1.49
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- –
How it ranks in Industrials
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Bottom 19%of 978
Bottom 25%of 985
Bottom 42%of 866
Bottom 1%of 984
Top 39%of 987
6.5%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$65a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
160.2% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 134.6%
News
ZIM edges higher on report Hapag-Lloyd CEO visiting IsraelSeeking Alpha · Sep 22, 2026The newest story we have is from Sep 22, 2026.
Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
1/7Passes 1 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
44No pass
Benjamin Graham
66Pass
Philip Fisher
33No pass
Peter Lynch
20No pass
Joel Greenblatt
21No pass
Charlie Munger
41No pass
Terry Smith
41No pass
Questions about Hapag-Lloyd
Is Hapag-Lloyd a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers at a fair price. 1 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Hapag-Lloyd AI analysis
What does Hapag-Lloyd do?
Hapag-Lloyd Aktiengesellschaft, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a liner shipping company in Germany, the United States, Asia, the rest of Europe, the Pacific, the Atlantic, Africa, and internationally. It is in Marine Shipping, based in Hamburg, Germany, with 15,172 employees.
Does Hapag-Lloyd pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 6.5% a year, about 160% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out €1.46 billion in dividends.
Is Hapag-Lloyd stock halal?
Yes. Hapag-Lloyd passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 28% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
Who are Hapag-Lloyd's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, A.P. Møller - Mærsk, Cosco Shipping and Shanghai International Port (Group). The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Hapag-Lloyd's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.