Clorox Financial Ratios
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Clorox ratio analysis
Clorox earned a net margin of 11.4% in FY 2025, up from 3.9% a year earlier. Gross margin was 45.2% compared with a median of 43.7% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 252.3%, meaning Clorox generated 2.52 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity, an unusually high figure that often reflects a small equity base after share buybacks.
Debt-to-equity stood at 7.75 versus 7.58 the year before, and the current ratio was 0.84. At the end of FY 2025, CLX traded at 19.1 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 19.1 to 132.5, with a median of 29.0. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Clorox financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 19.15 | 60.65 | 132.53 | 38.58 | 32.13 | 30.18 | 24.23 | 21.61 | 25.00 | 27.88 |
| Price / sales | 2.17 | 2.39 | 2.66 | 2.49 | 3.07 | 4.16 | 3.15 | 2.86 | 2.88 | 3.08 |
| Price / book | 48.04 | 51.66 | 89.34 | 31.86 | 54.78 | 30.79 | 34.99 | 24.09 | 31.70 | 59.79 |
| Gross margin | 45.2% | 43.0% | 39.4% | 35.8% | 43.6% | 45.6% | 43.9% | 43.7% | 44.7% | 45.1% |
| Net margin | 11.4% | 3.9% | 2.0% | 6.5% | 9.7% | 14.0% | 13.2% | 13.4% | 11.7% | 11.2% |
| Free cash flow margin | 10.7% | 6.8% | 12.6% | 7.5% | 12.9% | 19.2% | 12.6% | 12.8% | 10.6% | 10.5% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 252.3% | 85.4% | 67.7% | 83.1% | 172.7% | 103.4% | 146.7% | 113.4% | 129.3% | 218.2% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 14.6% | 4.9% | 2.5% | 7.5% | 11.2% | 15.1% | 16.0% | 16.3% | 15.3% | 14.4% |
| Debt / equity | 7.75 | 7.58 | 11.49 | 4.88 | 6.77 | 3.06 | 4.80 | 3.42 | 4.05 | 7.78 |
| Current ratio | 0.84 | 1.03 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.89 | 1.42 | 0.91 | 1.09 | 0.84 | 0.95 |
| Revenue growth | 0.2% | -4.0% | 4.0% | -3.2% | 9.2% | 8.2% | 1.5% | 2.5% | 3.7% | 1.9% |
| EPS growth | 189.8% | 87.5% | -67.8% | -33.2% | -24.2% | 16.5% | 1.0% | 17.4% | 8.3% | 12.6% |