Danaos Corporation

DAC Industrials Marine Shipping

Danaos Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.0 billion, up 2.80% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+4.66%
EPS
+16.8%
Free cash flow
−81.1%
Total debt
+59.1%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

148.78 3.67 −2.41%
Market cap
$2.7B
P/E
5.0×
Fwd P/E
5.4×
Dividend yield
2.42%
F-score
4/9
Altman Z
2.43
Beneish M
−2.58
Dividend safety
78/100

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Trades a month
Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — — — — — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 53.80%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 2,710.00
Revenue ttm 1,055.06
Net income ttm 540.80
Free cash flow ttm 194.98
Net debt Q (20.72)
Valuation
P/E 5.02
Forward P/E 5.43
Price / sales 2.57
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 13.89
Price / book 0.67
Financial health
Current ratio Q 9.30 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt / equity Q 0.30 (at or below 0.5: strong)
Interest coverage Q 16.33
Growth
Revenue growth Q +4.66% (above 0%: growing)
Operating income growth Q +5.72% (above 0%: growing)
EPS, this year +10.55%
EPS, next year A −4.50% (below 0%: weak)
Revenue, next year A +3.22%
EPS, past 5 yrs +32.92% (at or above 15%: strong)
EPS, next 5 yrs A +4.68%

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges; (Q) is the latest quarter, (A) analysts’ estimates. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 96.00%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 92.56%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 85.04%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 38.17%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 63.40%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends raised every year since 2021

Yield
2.42%
Annual rate
3.60
Payout ratio
12.2%
Growth, 2021–25
+23.1%/yr
  1. 1.50 ’21
  2. 3.00 ’22 +100
  3. 3.05 ’23 +2
  4. 3.25 ’24 +7
  5. 3.45 ’25 +6
  6. 3.60 ’26e +4
paid forecast change on the year, % Powerpack

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 272 453 1,037 1,231
Receivables 61 78 85 91
Inventory 25 24 23 23
Other 142 114 171 40
502 671 1,319 1,390
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 23 29 17 25
ST’ Debt 21 35 283 27
Other 40 31 36 33
168 169 402 149

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 6.26% 17.70% 1.62%
Cash Flow 9.03% 19.40% (11.64%)
Earnings 15.51% 26.36% (4.01%)
Book Value 16.25% 29.66% 14.02%

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 7.70 8.32 — — —
’25 6.13 7.12 7.11 6.42 26.76
’24 7.68 7.23 6.30 4.70 26.05
’23 7.18 7.32 6.76 7.70 28.95
’22 16.00 0.40 3.29 7.54 27.28
’21 14.47 18.10 10.55 8.05 51.15
’20 1.17 1.55 1.73 2.07 6.45
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 254 274 — — —
’25 253 262 261 266 1,042
’24 253 246 256 258 1,014
’23 244 241 239 249 974
’22 230 251 260 252 993
’21 132 146 196 215 690
’20 106 117 119 120 462
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 163 204 — — —
’25 134 163 169 179 645
’24 153 154 158 157 622
’23 128 153 150 146 576
’22 119 501 169 145 935
’21 88 104 103 132 428
’20 55 61 69 80 266
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 11 27 — — —
’25 50 141 76 80 348
’24 30 (54) (82) 68 (38)
’23 126 129 51 6 312
’22 130 419 158 158 865
’21 87 104 (159) 40 72
’20 13 5 62 15 95
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Ten-year view Analyst estimates Powerpack
Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 TTM Jun ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2026e 2027e 2028e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 498 452 459 447 462 690 993 974 1,014 1,042 1,055 +8.5% 1,076 1,094 1,138 +3.0%
Gross margin, % 75.26 73.53 74.54 74.49 72.87 76.77 80.46 79.14 75.37 73.92 74.98 (1.3) pt
EBT (366) 84 (33) 131 154 1,059 577 576 505 495 541 n/m
EBT margin, % (73.48) 18.57 (7.18) 29.35 33.27 153.55 58.13 59.19 49.80 47.45 51.26 +120.9 pt
Net income (366) 84 (33) 131 154 1,053 559 576 505 495 541 n/m
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 63.56 57.61 43.18 28.24 19.57 33.89 48.50 48.98 52.50 56.56 57.96 (1.3%)
Earnings (46.78) 10.64 (3.08) 8.29 6.51 51.75 27.30 28.99 26.15 26.83 29.62 n/m
Cash flow 33.41 23.09 15.50 13.89 11.26 21.04 45.64 28.99 32.19 34.98 39.31 +0.5%
Capex 0.08 (0.57) (0.27) (0.52) (7.23) (17.48) (3.42) (13.29) (34.13) (16.10) (28.60) n/m
Free cash flow 33.49 22.52 15.24 13.37 4.03 3.56 42.22 15.70 (1.95) 18.88 10.71 (6.2%)
Book value 62.21 69.98 65.03 55.68 43.90 102.63 125.01 151.73 177.30 205.92 222.85 +14.2%
Shares, m 8 8 11 16 24 20 20 20 19 18 18 +10.0%
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 0.00 1.91 0.00 1.10 3.26 1.44 1.96 2.57 3.06 3.51 5.02 1.9
P/S 0.61 0.35 0.24 0.33 1.10 2.20 1.10 1.52 1.53 1.67 2.57 1.1
P/B 0.62 0.29 0.16 0.16 0.49 0.73 0.43 0.49 0.45 0.46 0.67 0.4
EV/Sales 10.25 10.61 3.61 3.40 4.07 3.83 1.31 1.66 1.80 1.66 2.55 4.2
EV/FCF 19.45 27.15 10.23 7.17 19.77 36.46 1.51 5.17 (48.63) 4.98 13.78 8.3
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 262 181 165 220 266 428 935 576 622 645 716 +10.5%
Capex 1 (4) (3) (8) (171) (356) (70) (264) (659) (297) (521) n/m
Free cash flow 263 177 162 212 95 72 865 312 (38) 348 195 +3.2%
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital (2,430) (2,254) (103) (33) (121) 313 144 334 502 918 1,241 n/m
Net debt 2,428 2,260 1,545 1,373 1,373 1,120 207 132 281 118 (21) (28.6%)
Shareholders’ equity 488 549 691 882 1,036 2,088 2,560 3,016 3,425 3,796 4,057 +25.6%
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA (10.79) 2.74 (1.16) 4.89 5.69 33.20 15.92 16.32 12.62 10.46 10.85 +21.3 pt
ROIC (4.56) 4.17 (0.34) 5.57 5.18 6.98 14.76 11.53 9.12 7.97 7.91 +12.5 pt
ROE (55.08) 16.19 (5.31) 16.69 16.02 67.41 24.06 20.67 15.68 13.70 14.14 +68.8 pt
People
People Employees 1,196 1,145 1,104 1,148 1,296 1,715 1,558 1,718 1,875 4,116 — +14.7%
Revenue/emp, $m 0.42 0.39 0.42 0.39 0.36 0.40 0.64 0.57 0.54 0.25 — (5.4%)
Negative figures in brackets.
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Danaos Corporation vs peers in Marine Shipping (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

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DAC Danaos Corporation $2.7B 5.0× 5.4× +4.66% (above 0%: growing) +16.81% (above 0%: growing) −81.11% (below 0%: shrinking) 72.84% 48.38%
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SFL SFL Corporation Ltd. $1.7B 22.9× 29.1× +4.25% (above 0%: growing) +2,400.00% (above 0%: growing) −18.32% (below 0%: shrinking) 63.23% 32.49% Compare
CMRE Costamare Inc. $1.6B 4.8× 5.4× −2.12% (below 0%: shrinking) +2.01% (above 0%: growing) −269.21% (below 0%: shrinking) 70.25% 44.91% Compare
GSL Global Ship Lease, Inc. $1.4B 3.7× 4.2× +3.56% (above 0%: growing) −4.98% (below 0%: shrinking) +0.47% (above 0%: growing) 68.06% 47.24% Compare
Median of peers $2.7B 7.4× 5.0× +17.04% +226.14% +13.16% 64.41% 41.51%

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