Deluxe Corporation

DLX Industrials Conglomerates

Deluxe Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.1 billion, up 0.54% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+2.53%
EPS
−62.2%
Free cash flow
+11.7%
Total debt
−95.9%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

27.78 4.36 +18.62%
Market cap
$1.3B
P/E
16.1×
Fwd P/E
9.3×
Dividend yield
4.32%
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
1.55
Beneish M
−2.69
Dividend safety
59/100

Insider Decisions last twelve months

Bought, $m 0.00
Trades a month
Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26
Buy 1 — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — — — — — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 2.93%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Size
Market Cap 1,270.00
Revenue ttm 2,126.45
Net income ttm 100.70
Free cash flow ttm 214.24
Net debt Q (15.80)
Valuation
P/E 16.09
Forward P/E 9.33
Price / sales 0.60
Forward P/S Powerpack
Price / FCF 5.94
Price / book 1.77
Financial health
Current ratio Q 1.07
Debt / equity Q 0.08 (at or below 0.5: strong)
Interest coverage Q 1.51
Growth
Revenue growth Q +2.53% (above 0%: growing)
Operating income growth Q −30.51% (below 0%: shrinking)
EPS, this year +4.90%
EPS, next year A +6.49%
Revenue, next year A −1.46% (below 0%: weak)
EPS, past 5 yrs +71.35% (at or above 15%: strong)
EPS, next 5 yrs A +6.82%

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 57.15%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 46.79%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 39.24%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 49.65%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 24.90%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Yield
4.32%
Annual rate
1.20
Payout ratio
69.7%
Growth, 2018–26
−3.53%/yr
  1. 1.20 ’18
  2. 1.20 ’19 +0
  3. 1.20 ’20 +0
  4. 1.20 ’21 +0
  5. 1.20 ’22 +0
  6. 1.20 ’23 +0
  7. 1.20 ’24 +0
  8. 1.20 ’25 +0
  9. 0.90 ’26 −25
paid change on the year, %

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 72 34 37 75
Receivables 217 201 218 —
Inventory 42 36 34 36
Other 400 307 344 66
761 612 666 457
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 155 165 161 176
ST’ Debt 86 37 16 59
Other 387 274 275 18
819 626 643 426

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 1.87% 3.56% (1.59%)
Cash Flow (1.34%) 4.46% 12.21%
Earnings (9.27%) 73.71% 7.88%
Book Value (0.90%) 5.80% 4.05%

Earnings Trends EPS, adjusted, against the consensus

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.77 0.41 0.28 — —
’25 0.31 0.50 0.74 0.26 1.87
’24 0.24 0.46 0.20 0.28 1.18
’23 0.06 0.37 (0.18) 0.34 0.59
’22 0.22 0.51 0.34 0.44 1.50
’21 0.57 0.28 0.28 0.32 1.45
’20 (1.45) 0.35 0.70 0.58 0.13
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 538 499 554 — —
’25 537 521 540 535 2,133
’24 535 538 528 521 2,122
’23 545 572 538 537 2,192
’22 556 563 555 564 2,238
’21 441 478 532 571 2,022
’20 486 410 439 454 1,791
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 53 81 82 — —
’25 50 51 67 102 271
’24 27 40 68 60 194
’23 (7) 54 68 83 198
’22 34 38 51 68 192
’21 40 44 65 62 211
’20 26 83 57 51 218
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 27 59 49 — —
’25 24 28 44 79 175
’24 6 11 47 36 100
’23 (32) 24 43 64 98
’22 13 14 23 37 83
’21 18 19 31 34 99
’20 12 70 42 31 144
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.7
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 Sep ’26 Trend 10 yrs 2026e 2027e 2028e Next 3/yr
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 1,849 1,966 1,998 2,009 1,791 2,022 2,238 2,192 2,122 2,133 2,126 +1.6% 2,102 2,208 — +1.7%
Gross margin, % 63.88 62.21 60.37 59.53 59.19 56.27 53.88 53.04 53.09 53.00 52.01 (10.9) pt
EBT 340 313 213 (216) 27 94 84 40 77 119 145 (11.0%)
EBT margin, % 18.41 15.92 10.64 (10.74) 1.50 4.64 3.77 1.82 3.61 5.58 0.00 (12.8) pt
Net income 229 230 150 (224) 5 63 66 26 53 82 101 (10.8%)
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 38.08 40.84 42.65 46.68 42.71 47.72 52.02 50.40 48.11 47.62 0.00 +2.5%
Earnings 4.65 4.76 3.29 (5.20) 0.13 1.45 1.50 0.59 1.18 1.87 1.73 (9.6%)
Cash flow 6.58 7.03 7.24 6.66 5.19 4.97 4.45 4.56 4.41 6.04 0.00 (0.9%)
Capex (0.96) (0.99) (1.33) (1.55) (1.76) (2.64) (2.53) (2.31) (2.14) (2.13) 0.00 +9.2%
Free cash flow 5.62 6.05 5.92 5.11 3.43 2.33 1.92 2.25 2.27 3.91 0.00 (3.9%)
Book value 18.14 21.09 19.54 13.27 12.24 13.56 14.04 13.90 14.08 15.19 0.00 (2.0%)
Shares, m 49 48 47 43 42 42 43 44 44 45 45 (0.9%)
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 15.43 18.30 11.72 0.00 162.22 22.14 12.14 36.44 19.14 12.29 16.09 31.0
P/S 1.89 1.90 0.90 1.07 0.68 0.67 0.35 0.43 0.47 0.47 0.60 0.9
P/B 3.96 3.66 1.97 3.76 2.38 2.37 1.30 1.55 1.60 1.47 1.77 2.4
EV/Sales 2.26 2.23 1.33 1.48 1.09 1.48 1.07 1.12 1.16 1.13 1.26 1.4
EV/FCF 15.31 15.00 9.57 13.50 12.61 29.53 27.46 25.14 24.65 13.80 12.53 18.7
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 319 338 339 287 218 211 192 198 194 271 318 (1.8%)
Capex (47) (47) (62) (67) (74) (112) (109) (101) (94) (95) (104) +8.3%
Free cash flow 273 291 277 220 144 99 83 98 100 175 214 (4.8%)
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital (17) (33) 58 64 95 (63) (48) (58) (14) 23 30 n/m
Net debt 682 650 852 823 729 1,642 1,604 1,521 1,469 1,393 (16) +8.3%
Shareholders’ equity 881 1,015 915 571 513 575 604 605 621 681 718 (2.8%)
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 11.30 10.41 6.60 (10.54) 0.27 2.55 2.13 0.85 1.79 2.88 2.72 (8.4) pt
ROIC 14.67 12.36 8.18 (8.44) 2.05 4.01 4.80 4.73 5.75 7.01 20.29 (7.7) pt
ROE 27.98 24.12 15.44 (30.13) 0.96 11.51 11.09 4.32 8.62 12.62 11.56 (15.4) pt
People
People Employees 6,026 5,886 6,701 6,352 6,185 6,313 5,863 5,170 4,981 4,571 — (3.0%)
Revenue/emp, $m 0.31 0.33 0.30 0.32 0.29 0.32 0.38 0.42 0.43 0.47 — +4.8%
Negative figures in brackets.
estimates

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Sep 2026 · fundamentals updated 5 Nov 2026

Deluxe Corporation vs peers in Conglomerates (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
PAM Pampa Energia S.A. $3.4B 5.1× 7.2× +33.67% (above 0%: growing) +491.30% (above 0%: growing) −965.12% (below 0%: shrinking) 32.91% 18.99% Compare
SEB Seaboard Corporation $3.3B 5.9× — (loss-making) +9.09% (above 0%: growing) −73.38% (below 0%: shrinking) +6.17% (above 0%: growing) 4.76% 0.47% Compare
DLX Deluxe Corporation $1.3B 16.1× 9.3× +2.53% (above 0%: growing) −62.16% (below 0%: shrinking) +11.71% (above 0%: growing) 51.92% 9.51%
CODI Compass Diversified Holdings $863.0M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −11.42% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m +150.97% (above 0%: growing) 47.16% 6.83% Compare
FBYD Falcon's Beyond Global, Inc. $821.5M — (loss-making) — +120.40% (above 0%: growing) n/m +130.40% (above 0%: growing) 62.66% (4.66%) Compare
CRESY Cresud S.A.C.I.F. y A. $640.5M 4.9× — +22.29% (above 0%: growing) −57.51% (below 0%: shrinking) −87.57% (below 0%: shrinking) 37.44% 49.66% Compare
MATW Matthews International Corporation $618.0M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) −29.58% (below 0%: shrinking) n/m +73.67% (above 0%: growing) 35.85% (5.37%) Compare
TRC Tejon Ranch Co $453.7M 58.5× 91.0× +88.92% (above 0%: growing) +100.00% (above 0%: growing) +118.12% (above 0%: growing) 0.00% 10.49% Compare
BOC Boston Omaha Corporation $421.2M — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +2.40% (above 0%: growing) n/m +135.51% (above 0%: growing) 44.46% (2.72%) Compare
Median of peers $731.0M 5.5× — +15.69% +21.25% +95.90% 36.65% 3.65%

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Pay and ownership Proxy statement filed 9 March 2026

Ownership

Directors and executive officers, together 5.40%
BlackRock, Inc.150 Hudson YardsNew York, NY 14.90%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.2100 Vanguard Blvd.Malvern, PA 11.40%
State Street3One Congress Street, Ste. 5.80%
Dimensional Fund Advisors, LP46300 Bee Cave Road, Building OneAustin, TX 5.30%
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