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BlackLine’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $700.4 million, up 7.21% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 9.18%, EPS grew 21.8%, free cash flow grew 43.7% and total debt was flat, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Dividend growth for three consecutive years, revenue growth for ten.

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Market cap
$1.8B
P/E
75.7×
Fwd P/E
31.2×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
2.08
Beneish M
−2.66
Dividend safety
n/a

BlackLine (BL) Piotroski F-score

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BlackLine's Piotroski F-score for fiscal 2025 is 7 out of 9: 7 of nine tests of profitability, leverage and efficiency passed, down from 8 in fiscal 2024.

Piotroski F-score, annual

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Period Piotroski F-score Change (points)
FY2025 7 (1.00)
FY2024 8 2.00
FY2023 6 2.00
FY2022 4 1.00
FY2021 3 (1.00)
FY2020 4 (1.00)
FY2019 5 (1.00)
FY2018 6 1.00
FY2017 5 —

How fiscal 2025’s score is made up

Test This year Year before Result Points
Positive return on assets 1.37% 8.21% Pass 1
Positive operating cash flow 169.57m 190.84m Pass 1
Rising return on assets 1.37% 8.21% Fail 0
Cash flow above net income 145.05m 29.66m Pass 1
Falling long-term leverage 0.37 0.45 Pass 1
Rising current ratio 1.47 2.59 Fail 0
No new shares issued 61,430,000 62,129,000 Pass 1
Rising gross margin 75.25% 75.21% Pass 1
Rising asset turnover 0.39 0.33 Pass 1
Piotroski F-score Strong — most fundamentals improved 7

How the Piotroski F-score works

One point for each of nine tests, this fiscal year against the one before: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, a rising current ratio, no new shares issued, a rising gross margin and rising asset turnover. The ratios are the ones on this site, so each can be checked.

Joseph Piotroski (2000) called 8–9 high and 0–1 low; reading it in three bands is the common convention:

7–9Strong — most fundamentals improved
4–6Mixed
0–3Weak — most fundamentals deteriorated

Where this differs from the paper: return on assets is on average rather than beginning-of-year assets, and weighted basic shares stand in for shares issued. The score is shown only when all nine tests can be worked out, which takes three fiscal years; banks and insurers, which report no current assets or gross profit, have none.

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What Piotroski F-score is

The Piotroski F-Score tells an investor how many signs of improving profitability, funding and efficiency a company shows against a year earlier.

One point for each of nine tests against a year earlier: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, cash flow above net income, falling long-term leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, and rising asset turnover

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