Proto Labs Financial Ratios
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Proto Labs ratio analysis
Proto Labs earned a net margin of 4.0% in FY 2025, up from 3.3% a year earlier. Gross margin was 44.5% compared with a median of 50.1% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 3.2%, meaning Proto Labs generated 0.03 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
At the end of FY 2025, PRLB traded at 58.4 times earnings; across the 9 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 31.9 to 81.2, with a median of 53.4. 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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Proto Labs 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) | 58.35 | 60.08 | 59.03 | — | 42.44 | 81.16 | 42.31 | 39.33 | 53.37 | 31.89 |
| Price / sales | 2.30 | 1.99 | 2.02 | 1.43 | 2.91 | 9.44 | 5.82 | 6.69 | 7.97 | 4.54 |
| Price / book | 1.82 | 1.48 | 1.47 | 1.00 | 1.71 | 6.37 | 4.56 | 5.51 | 5.95 | 3.56 |
| Gross margin | 44.5% | 44.6% | 44.1% | 44.1% | 45.6% | 50.1% | 51.3% | 53.6% | 56.3% | 56.0% |
| Operating margin | 4.7% | 4.0% | 5.6% | -20.1% | 8.3% | 13.8% | 17.4% | 20.0% | 21.0% | 20.7% |
| Net margin | 4.0% | 3.3% | 3.4% | -21.2% | 6.8% | 11.7% | 13.9% | 17.2% | 15.0% | 14.3% |
| Free cash flow margin | 11.2% | 13.7% | 9.0% | 8.3% | 4.3% | 13.8% | 11.7% | 8.0% | 14.3% | 14.7% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 3.2% | 2.5% | 2.5% | -14.8% | 4.0% | 7.9% | 10.9% | 14.1% | 11.2% | 11.2% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 2.8% | 2.2% | 2.2% | -12.9% | 3.6% | 6.8% | 9.4% | 12.4% | 10.0% | 10.3% |
| Debt / equity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.01 | — |
| Current ratio | 3.49 | 3.66 | 4.04 | 2.61 | 3.34 | 4.82 | 4.97 | 4.08 | 3.77 | 6.74 |
| Revenue growth | 6.4% | -0.6% | 3.2% | 0.1% | 12.4% | -5.3% | 2.9% | 29.3% | 15.6% | 12.9% |
| EPS growth | 33.3% | 0.0% | — | -411.6% | -36.0% | -19.6% | -16.4% | 45.6% | 19.9% | -9.0% |