Sotera Health Company

SHC Healthcare Diagnostics & Research

Sotera Health Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.2 billion, up 5.74% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 9.18%, EPS grew 533.3%, free cash flow grew 60.6% and total debt fell 3.54%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue growth for five consecutive years.

17.89 0.18 −1.00%
Market cap
$5.2B
P/E
31.4×
Fwd P/E
23.7×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
1.76
Beneish M
−2.75
Dividend safety
n/a

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 1,635.09
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell 2 3 — — 2 — 2 — — 2 — —
Insider Ownership 2.24%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 5,160.00
Revenue 1,216.17
Net Income 163.48
Free Cash Flow 112.70
Net Debt 1,874.31
Current Ratio 2.80 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 3.35 (above 2: weak)
P/E ratio 31.39
Fwd P/E 23.70
P/S ratio 4.20
P/B ratio 7.68 (above 6: high)
Past 5Y EPS Growth —
This Y EPS Growth 14.42%
Next Y EPS Growth 9.23%
Next Y revenue growth 7.17%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 11.19%

Green and red mark values outside typical ranges. How we judge →

Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 8.30%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 48.04%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 20.41%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 37.31%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 48.74%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio —
Annual Dividend Rate —
Annual Dividend Yield —
total individual payouts
2028 Powerpack
2027 Powerpack
2026 Powerpack
2025 Powerpack
2024 Powerpack
2023 Powerpack
2022 Powerpack
2021 Powerpack
predictions special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 302 279 346 357
Receivables 153 147 147 159
Inventory 48 49 54 56
Other — — — 83
557 526 613 646
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 71 55 78 101
ST’ Debt 5 15 14 14
Other — — — —
231 191 250 231

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales — 7.30% 5.05%
Cash Flow — 18.95% 1.10%
Earnings — 0.00% 0.00%
Book Value — 5.92% 20.05%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 280 321 — — —
’25 255 294 311 303 1,164
’24 248 277 285 290 1,100
’23 221 255 263 310 1,049
’22 237 267 249 252 1,004
’21 212 252 226 241 931
’20 188 213 200 217 818
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 29 88 — — —
’25 56 57 71 103 287
’24 10 61 97 56 224
’23 34 (337) 42 113 (148)
’22 50 58 68 102 278
’21 56 78 81 66 282
’20 6 47 46 22 121
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (17) 42 — — —
’25 36 26 35 52 149
’24 (25) 19 61 (10) 45
’23 (11) (390) (10) 48 (363)
’22 14 22 29 30 96
’21 35 54 65 25 179
’20 (7) 37 36 2 67
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.09 0.19 — — —
’25 (0.05) 0.03 0.17 0.12 0.27
’24 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.04 0.16
’23 0.01 0.08 (0.05) 0.14 0.18
’22 0.11 0.11 0.09 (1.14) (0.83)
’21 0.04 0.15 0.10 0.13 0.41
’20 (0.01) 0.03 0.00 (0.17) (0.16)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.6
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low — — — — 24.05 20.48 5.78 8.02 10.71 9.53

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High — — — — 29.00 30.38 24.90 19.40 17.44 17.83
People
People Employees — — — 2,900 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000
Revenue/emp, $m — — 0.00 0.27 0.27 0.31 0.33 0.35 0.37 0.39
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue — — 746 778 818 931 1,004 1,049 1,100 1,164
Gross margin, % — — 47.88 50.81 54.22 55.68 55.50 55.00 54.73 55.48
EBT — — 24 (1) (39) 176 (243) 106 114 148
EBT margin, % — — 3.25 (0.12) (4.75) 18.86 (24.22) 10.10 10.35 12.68
Net income — 0 (6) (20) (37) 117 (234) 51 44 78
Depreciation — — 204 155 155 157 161 167 171 142
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue — — 3.21 3.35 3.44 3.34 3.58 3.73 3.89 4.10
Earnings — — (0.03) (0.09) (0.16) 0.41 (0.83) 0.18 0.16 0.27
Cash flow — — 0.51 0.64 0.51 1.01 0.99 (0.53) 0.79 1.01
Capex — — (0.31) (0.25) (0.23) (0.37) (0.65) (0.76) (0.63) (0.49)
Free cash flow — — 0.20 0.39 0.28 0.64 0.34 (1.29) 0.16 0.53
Book value — — 0.20 (2.76) 1.91 2.10 1.25 1.58 1.43 2.13
Shares, m — — 232 232 238 279 280 281 283 284
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E — — 4,648.15 4,648.15 0.00 56.07 0.00 93.06 91.20 65.33
P/S — — 7.32 7.32 8.50 7.06 2.32 4.49 3.52 4.30
P/B — — 0.00 0.00 15.30 11.22 6.66 10.61 9.55 8.27
EV/Sales — — 10.94 10.94 10.66 8.87 3.92 6.34 5.37 5.93
EV/FCF — — 55.56 55.56 130.05 46.07 41.20 (18.34) 131.01 46.23
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow — — 120 149 121 282 278 (148) 224 287
Capex — — (73) (57) (54) (102) (182) (215) (179) (138)
Free cash flow — — 47 92 67 179 96 (363) 45 149
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital — — 169 128 174 185 (147) 327 335 364
Total debt — — 2,236 2,847 1,871 1,794 2,001 2,249 2,318 2,235
Net debt — — 2,140 2,784 1,768 1,687 1,605 1,947 2,039 1,888
Shareholders’ equity — — 45 (641) 455 586 350 444 405 606
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA — — (0.43) (0.79) (1.45) 4.21 (7.91) 1.64 1.43 2.46
ROIC — — 2.31 5.35 5.79 7.06 7.94 7.23 7.61 9.07
ROE — — 1.96 7.00 41.40 22.46 (49.89) 12.87 10.45 15.42
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Sotera Health Company vs peers in Diagnostics & Research (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
QGEN QIAGEN N.V. $9.5B 23.6× 17.5× +0.28% (above 0%: growing) +7.94% (above 0%: growing) +30.45% (above 0%: growing) 63.62% 24.75% Compare
TWST Twist Bioscience Corporation $9.5B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +23.24% (above 0%: growing) n/m −7.23% (below 0%: shrinking) 52.76% (30.65%) Compare
GRAL GRAIL, Inc. $6.1B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +25.72% (above 0%: growing) n/m −4.95% (below 0%: shrinking) (28.12%) (388.89%) Compare
RDNT RadNet, Inc. $5.5B — (loss-making) 279× +24.99% (above 0%: growing) −47.37% (below 0%: shrinking) −43.22% (below 0%: shrinking) 14.14% 6.34% Compare
SHC Sotera Health Company $5.2B 31.4× 23.7× +9.18% (above 0%: growing) +533.33% (above 0%: growing) +60.56% (above 0%: growing) 55.38% 33.23%
BLLN BillionToOne, Inc. $4.9B 95.0× 99.4× +64.40% (above 0%: growing) n/m +400.65% (above 0%: growing) 70.45% 5.03% Compare
ADPT Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation $4.1B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +21.53% (above 0%: growing) n/m +42.04% (above 0%: growing) 71.82% (22.04%) Compare
VCYT Veracyte, Inc. $3.6B 29.9× 45.1× +15.49% (above 0%: growing) n/m +32.95% (above 0%: growing) 72.21% 15.29% Compare
CDNA CareDx, Inc. $3.5B 29.7× 2,967× +52.23% (above 0%: growing) n/m +223.42% (above 0%: growing) 73.50% 85.81% Compare
Median of peers $5.2B 29.8× 99.4× +24.12% — +31.70% 67.04% 5.69%

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Sotera Health Company (SHC) key facts

  • Strength: Sotera Health Company’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.2 billion, up 5.74% from fiscal 2024.
  • Strength: Net income was $77.9 million, or $0.27 per share (basic), a net margin of 6.70%.
  • Sotera Health Company (SHC) is a Diagnostics & Research company in the Healthcare sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • As of October 16, 2026, SHC traded at $17.89, a market capitalization of $5.2 billion.
  • At that price the stock trades at 31.4× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 4.2× sales; its P/E is higher than 8% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Return on equity was 15.4% and debt-to-equity 3.35.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 7 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 1.76 (distress zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.

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