H. B. Fuller Company

FUL Basic Materials Specialty Chemicals

H. B. Fuller Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended November 2025) was $3.5 billion, down 2.67% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+5.17%
EPS
+18.2%
Free cash flow
−58.4%
Total debt
−1.25%

Quarter to August 2026, against a year earlier

50.18 2.39 −4.55%
Market cap
$2.7B
P/E
13.8×
Fwd P/E
11.7×
Dividend yield
1.93%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
2.16
Beneish M
−2.57
Dividend safety
79/100

H. B. Fuller Company (FUL) Debt to equity

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H. B. Fuller Company's debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 31 August 2026 was 0.9×, down 0.1× from fiscal 2025 (1.0×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.7× (fiscal 2016) to 2.3× (fiscal 2017); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is above the Specialty Chemicals industry median of 0.6× and above the Basic Materials sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 1.0× (8.34%)
FY2024 1.1× 5.03%
FY2023 1.0× (2.97%)
FY2022 1.1× 8.19%
FY2021 1.0× (21.64%)
FY2020 1.3× (20.81%)
FY2019 1.6× (17.07%)
FY2018 1.9× (15.87%)
FY2017 2.3× 224.20%
FY2016 0.7× (10.44%)

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Aug 2026 0.9× (4.75%)
May 2026 1.0× (1.01%)
Feb 2026 1.0× (0.17%)
Nov 2025 1.0× (5.19%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.7× High 2.3×
Ten-year median 1.1×
Current reading's percentile 36

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
CLMT Calumet, Inc. compare −2.4×
WDFC WD-40 Company compare 0.3×
HWKN Hawkins, Inc. compare 0.4×
KWR Quaker Houghton compare 0.6×
CBT Cabot Corporation compare 0.7×
ASH Ashland Inc. compare 0.7×
FUL H. B. Fuller Company 0.9×
NGVT Ingevity Corporation compare 22.5×
CC The Chemours Company compare 24.6×
Specialty Chemicals industry median 0.6×
Basic Materials sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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