Deluxe Financial Ratios
NYSE: DLXConsumer DiscretionaryPublishingUSD
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Deluxe ratio analysis
Deluxe earned a net margin of 3.8% in FY 2025, up from 2.5% a year earlier. Gross margin was 53.0% compared with a median of 59.2% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 12.1%, meaning Deluxe generated 0.12 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 2.10 versus 2.42 the year before, and the current ratio was 1.04. At the end of FY 2025, DLX traded at 12.3 times earnings; across the 9 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 11.3 to 265.5, with a median of 16.3. 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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Deluxe 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) | 12.33 | 19.21 | 36.36 | 11.32 | 22.14 | 265.45 | — | 12.83 | 16.28 | 15.40 |
| Price / sales | 0.47 | 0.47 | 0.43 | 0.33 | 0.67 | 0.68 | 1.06 | 0.95 | 1.88 | 1.88 |
| Price / book | 1.46 | 1.61 | 1.54 | 1.21 | 2.37 | 2.38 | 3.72 | 2.07 | 3.64 | 3.95 |
| Gross margin | 53.0% | 53.1% | 53.0% | 53.9% | 56.3% | 59.2% | 59.5% | 60.4% | 62.2% | 63.9% |
| Operating margin | 10.9% | 9.1% | 7.3% | 7.6% | 7.0% | 2.3% | -9.4% | 11.6% | 16.7% | 19.8% |
| Net margin | 3.8% | 2.5% | 1.2% | 2.9% | 3.1% | 0.3% | -11.1% | 7.5% | 11.7% | 12.4% |
| Free cash flow margin | 8.2% | 4.7% | 4.5% | 8.6% | 10.4% | 12.1% | 11.0% | 13.9% | 14.8% | 14.7% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 12.1% | 8.5% | 4.3% | 10.8% | 10.9% | 1.0% | -39.2% | 16.3% | 22.7% | 26.0% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 2.9% | 1.9% | 0.8% | 2.1% | 2.0% | 0.3% | -11.5% | 6.5% | 10.4% | 10.5% |
| Debt / equity | 2.10 | 2.42 | 2.63 | 2.72 | 2.93 | 1.64 | 1.55 | 1.00 | 0.70 | 0.86 |
| Current ratio | 1.04 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.94 | 0.91 | 1.23 | 1.16 | 1.15 | 0.92 | 0.96 |
| Revenue growth | 0.5% | -3.2% | -2.0% | 10.7% | 12.9% | -10.8% | 0.5% | 1.7% | 6.3% | 4.3% |
| EPS growth | 52.5% | 100.0% | -60.7% | 3.4% | 1,218.2% | — | -264.6% | -33.1% | 1.5% | 6.7% |