ICON PLC

ICLR Healthcare Diagnostics & Research

ICON PLC’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $8.3 billion, up 0.76% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−2.86%
EPS
+143.2%
Free cash flow
−8.01%
Total debt
−0.86%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

201.62 1.49 −0.73%
Market cap
$15.1B
P/E
34.5×
Fwd P/E
34.6×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
2.01
Beneish M
−2.62
Dividend safety
n/a

ICON PLC (ICLR) Return on invested capital

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ICON PLC's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 3.84%, up 1.5 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (2.32%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.86% (fiscal 2021) to 19.1% (fiscal 2015); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Diagnostics & Research industry median of 0.00% and above the Healthcare sector median of 0.00%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 2.32% (2.91)
FY2024 5.23% 0.50
FY2023 4.73% 0.87
FY2022 3.86% 2.00
FY2021 1.86% (15.86)
FY2020 17.7% (0.17)
FY2019 17.9% (0.81)
FY2018 18.7% 0.77
FY2017 17.9% (0.93)
FY2016 18.9% (0.23)

Against its own ten years

Low 1.86% High 19.1%
Ten-year median 17.7%
Current reading's percentile 18

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
ILMN Illumina, Inc. compare 16.7%
DGX Quest Diagnostics Incorporated compare 8.48%
LH Labcorp Holdings Inc. compare 6.76%
QGEN QIAGEN N.V. compare 6.62%
ICLR ICON PLC 3.84%
RVTY Revvity Inc. compare 2.50%
CRL Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. compare 1.81%
MEDP Medpace Holdings, Inc. compare 0.00%
GH Guardant Health, Inc. compare −25.7%
Diagnostics & Research industry median 0.00%
Healthcare sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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