profit from every £100 of sales.
£0£100
Unilever
£49.16-0.47% today
+0.2% in 1 year
1-year low £40.781-year high £54.72
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 £13.38 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 Unilever sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from €60.1 billion in 2022 to €50.5 billion in 2025, with €9.47 billion of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Unilever handed back 88% of the cash it generated last year.
€4.5B
Free cash flow 2025€6.8B
Bought back its own shares€1.5B
Paid as dividends€4.5B
Cash vs. debt€3.9B vs. €27.6B
Unilever vs. similar companies
Unilever grows the slowest of these 5 and is the cheapest for its profits.
| Company | Profit from £100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per £1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unilever | 13.4× · Cheap | ||
 Procter & Gamble | 24.2× · Fair price | ||
 L'Oréal | 38.9× · Expensive | ||
 Colgate-Palmolive | 36.5× · Expensive | ||
 Kimberly-Clark | 33.1× · Expensive |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Unilever'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60,073 | 51,680 | 52,479 | 50,503 | |
| 24,167 | 22,500 | 24,503 | 23,709 | |
| 9,727 | 9,275 | 10,278 | 10,127 | |
| 13,072 | 10,730 | 10,740 | 11,144 | |
| 7,642 | 6,487 | 5,744 | 9,469 | |
| 3.36 | 2.88 | 2.58 | – | |
| 40.2% | 43.5% | 46.7% | 46.9% | |
| 16.2% | 17.9% | 19.6% | 20.1% | |
| 12.7% | 12.6% | 10.9% | 18.7% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 77,821 | 75,266 | 79,750 | 70,471 |
| Cash | 4,326 | 4,159 | 6,136 | 3,941 |
| Total debt | 28,439 | 28,593 | 30,655 | 27,597 |
| Total liabilities | 56,120 | 54,502 | 57,195 | 52,884 |
| 19,021 | 18,102 | 19,990 | 15,530 | |
| 2,275 | 2,251 | 2,229 | – | |
| 17.6% | 15.4% | 13.9% | 17.0% | |
| 40.2% | 35.8% | 28.7% | 61.0% |
Cash flow
| In millions of EUR | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,282 | 9,426 | 9,519 | 8,350 | |
| 1,709 | 1,435 | 1,614 | 1,591 | |
| 5,573 | 7,991 | 7,905 | 6,759 | |
| Dividends paid | 4,329 | 4,363 | 4,319 | 4,453 |
| 1,509 | 1,507 | 1,508 | 1,510 | |
| 177 | 192 | 292 | 255 |
Valuation
- 13.4×
- –
- –
- 8.0×
- 2.5×
- 18.7×
- 13.5×
- 5.3%
- 7.5%
- 3.5%
Profitability
- 46.9%
- 20.1%
- 18.7%
- –
- 17.0%
- 16.0%
- –
- –
- –
- –
Growth
- −5.6%
- –
- –
- –
- −1.2%
Financial health
- 2.1×
- 1.78
- –
- 8.9×
- 0.79
- –
- –
How it ranks in Consumer Staples
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 19%of 670
Top 18%of 674
Top 29%of 624
Bottom 5%of 673
Top 45%of 668
3.5%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$35a year at today's yield, before tax
–per share
Raised–not every year
How safe it looks
47.0% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 65.9%
News
Unilever eyes €1B in savings as post-spin-off restructuring gathers paceSeeking Alpha · Nov 4, 2026Can Unilever (LSE:ULVR) Be A Bargain As AI Shapes Cash Flow?Yahoo Finance · Oct 20, 2026Insider trades
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The seven classic investing rulebooks
2/7Passes 2 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
57No pass
Benjamin Graham
49No pass
Philip Fisher
64Pass
Peter Lynch
41No pass
Joel Greenblatt
46No pass
Charlie Munger
60Pass
Terry Smith
48No pass
Questions about Unilever
Is Unilever a good stock to buy?
A solid business, and the price looks low. 2 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 Unilever AI analysis
What does Unilever do?
Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company in the Asia Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. It operates through four segments: Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care, Home Care, and Foods. It is in Household & Personal Products, based in London, United Kingdom, with 93,731 employees.
Does Unilever pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 3.5% a year, about 47% of its yearly profit. In 2025 it paid out £4.45 billion in dividends.
Is Unilever stock halal?
Yes. Unilever passes our halal screen: its business is permitted and its debt is 22% of its market value, under the 30% limit. How we check
How has Unilever stock done over the past year?
Up 0.2% over the past twelve months, to £49.16. It traded between £40.78 and £54.72 and is 10.2% below its high.
Who are Unilever's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are Procter & Gamble, L'Oréal, Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Unilever's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 11, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.