Dolby Laboratories Financial Ratios
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Dolby Laboratories ratio analysis
Dolby Laboratories earned a net margin of 18.9% in FY 2025, down from 20.6% a year earlier. Gross margin was 88.1% compared with a median of 88.7% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 9.7%, meaning Dolby Laboratories generated 0.10 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
At the end of FY 2025, DLB traded at 27.6 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 26.1 to 179.4, with a median of 29.4. 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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Dolby Laboratories 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) | 27.63 | 28.11 | 38.66 | 35.99 | 31.13 | 28.88 | 26.14 | 179.41 | 28.76 | 29.99 |
| Price / sales | 5.14 | 5.67 | 5.84 | 5.20 | 7.30 | 5.63 | 5.22 | 6.86 | 5.42 | 5.33 |
| Price / book | 2.65 | 2.92 | 3.22 | 2.90 | 3.60 | 2.69 | 2.81 | 3.06 | 2.74 | 2.78 |
| Gross margin | 88.1% | 89.0% | 88.3% | 88.7% | 89.9% | 87.4% | 87.0% | 87.9% | 89.0% | 89.4% |
| Operating margin | 19.6% | 20.3% | 16.6% | 16.5% | 26.9% | 18.8% | 20.7% | 17.4% | 22.9% | 22.6% |
| Net margin | 18.9% | 20.6% | 15.4% | 14.7% | 24.2% | 19.9% | 20.5% | 4.0% | 19.1% | 18.1% |
| Free cash flow margin | 32.3% | 23.3% | 25.9% | 21.6% | 30.7% | 23.9% | 18.6% | 26.5% | 25.8% | 25.3% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 9.7% | 10.6% | 8.5% | 8.2% | 11.9% | 9.5% | 11.1% | 1.8% | 9.7% | 9.4% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 7.9% | 8.4% | 6.7% | 6.8% | 10.0% | 7.9% | 9.0% | 1.5% | 8.1% | 8.0% |
| Current ratio | 3.17 | 2.86 | 3.52 | 4.72 | 5.58 | 5.79 | 4.50 | 5.25 | 4.12 | 3.57 |
| Revenue growth | 5.9% | -2.0% | 3.7% | -2.1% | 10.3% | -6.4% | 17.7% | -2.4% | 5.3% | 5.7% |
| EPS growth | -2.6% | 31.2% | 13.3% | -39.1% | 32.0% | -7.8% | 525.6% | -80.5% | 10.5% | 3.4% |