United-Guardian, Inc.

UG Consumer Defensive Household & Personal Products

United-Guardian, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $10.5 million, down 13.4% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 9.52%, EPS grew 14.3% and free cash flow grew 428.4%, each against the same quarter a year earlier.

6.90 0.10 −1.43%
Market cap
$31.7M
P/E
12.8×
Fwd P/E
18.7×
Dividend yield
7.97%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
12.53
Beneish M
−2.64
Dividend safety
20/100

Insider Decisions trades per month

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Insider Ownership 35.57%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 31.70
Revenue 11.21
Net Income 2.47
Free Cash Flow 3.41
Net Debt (9.59)
Current Ratio 7.32 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 0.00 (at or below 0.5: strong)
P/E ratio 12.78
Fwd P/E 18.70
P/S ratio 2.83
P/B ratio 2.73
Past 5Y EPS Growth (8.57%) (below 0%: weak)
This Y EPS Growth —
Next Y EPS Growth —
Next Y revenue growth (8.83%) (below 0%: weak)
Next 5Y EPS Growth —

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 2.44%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 3.29%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 3.36%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 2.18%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 0.04%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 1.02
Annual Dividend Rate 0.55
Annual Dividend Yield 7.97%
total individual payouts
2026 0.55
0.25
0.30
2025 0.60
0.35
0.25
2024 0.60
0.25
0.35
2023 0.10
0.10
2022 0.68
0.37
0.31
2021 1.13
0.48
0.65
2020 0.78
0.42
0.36
2019 1.10
0.55
0.55
2018 1.05
0.50
0.55
2017 0.42
0.42
0.50
2016 0.75
0.35
0.40
special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 9 9 9 10
Receivables 2 1 2 2
Inventory 1 1 2 1
Other 0 0 0 0
12 13 12 13
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 0 0 0 0
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other — — — —
2 2 2 2

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales (2.80%) (0.82%) (6.00%)
Cash Flow (9.26%) (11.36%) (7.99%)
Earnings (7.53%) (8.62%) (6.42%)
Book Value (2.58%) 1.64% 6.62%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 3 3 — — —
’25 2 3 2 3 11
’24 3 3 3 2 12
’23 3 3 3 3 11
’22 4 4 2 3 13
’21 3 4 3 4 14
’20 3 3 2 2 11
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 1 2 — — —
’25 0 0 1 0 2
’24 1 1 1 0 3
’23 0 0 1 1 3
’22 0 1 1 1 3
’21 1 2 1 2 5
’20 1 2 0 1 4
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 1 2 — — —
’25 0 0 1 0 2
’24 1 1 1 0 3
’23 0 0 1 1 3
’22 0 1 1 1 2
’21 1 2 1 2 5
’20 1 2 0 1 4
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 0.18 0.16 — — —
’25 0.12 0.14 0.06 0.14 0.46
’24 0.20 0.21 0.19 0.11 0.71
’23 0.16 0.10 0.14 0.16 0.56
’22 0.20 0.14 0.07 0.15 0.56
’21 0.26 0.29 0.22 0.24 1.01
’20 0.17 0.26 0.16 0.13 0.72
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

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 13.52 13.75 15.51 17.74 10.65 13.68 10.12 5.79 7.02 5.58

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 23.49 21.33 20.33 20.89 20.70 18.99 26.09 12.51 16.25 11.98
People
People Employees 33 31 29 28 25 24 24 25 25 25
Revenue/emp, $m 0.33 0.42 0.46 0.49 0.44 0.58 0.53 0.44 0.49 0.42
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 11 13 13 14 11 14 13 11 12 11
Gross margin, % 54.69 59.12 60.26 58.40 55.65 58.74 52.78 49.66 53.03 48.75
EBT 4 6 5 6 4 6 3 3 4 3
EBT margin, % 34.30 42.80 40.65 44.34 37.88 42.20 25.42 29.86 33.73 25.06
Net income 3 4 4 5 3 5 3 3 3 2
Depreciation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 2.35 2.82 2.93 2.96 2.39 3.03 2.76 2.37 2.65 2.30
Earnings 0.56 0.84 0.95 1.04 0.72 1.01 0.56 0.56 0.71 0.46
Cash flow 0.50 0.87 1.08 0.97 0.78 1.16 0.55 0.68 0.75 0.43
Capex (0.04) (0.01) (0.02) (0.02) (0.01) (0.03) (0.01) (0.03) (0.09) (0.01)
Free cash flow 0.46 0.86 1.06 0.95 0.77 1.13 0.54 0.65 0.66 0.42
Book value 3.01 2.48 2.38 2.31 2.25 2.14 2.02 2.48 2.59 2.44
Shares, m 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 27.59 21.61 19.31 18.89 19.97 16.29 18.98 13.68 13.46 13.39
P/S 6.59 6.43 6.27 6.64 6.01 5.43 3.85 3.23 3.61 2.68
P/B 5.14 7.32 7.71 8.49 6.38 7.69 5.27 3.09 3.70 2.52
EV/Sales 5.60 5.78 5.66 6.06 5.27 4.84 3.34 2.40 2.83 1.87
EV/FCF 28.41 18.95 15.61 18.88 16.30 12.97 17.03 8.73 11.38 10.34
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 2 4 5 4 4 5 3 3 3 2
Capex 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Free cash flow 2 4 5 4 4 5 2 3 3 2
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 13 10 10 10 10 9 9 11 11 11
Total debt — — — — — — — — — —
Net debt (11) (8) (8) (8) (8) (8) (6) (9) (9) (9)
Shareholders’ equity 14 11 11 11 10 10 9 11 12 11
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 16.90 27.74 34.27 38.24 27.22 38.56 22.46 21.91 24.33 15.65
ROIC 66.66 110.91 126.69 124.12 104.66 214.07 90.68 78.00 91.74 52.74
ROE 18.18 30.49 39.00 44.18 31.50 46.18 26.92 25.00 27.94 18.22
Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

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UG United-Guardian, Inc. $32.2M 12.8× 18.7× +9.52% (above 0%: growing) +14.29% (above 0%: growing) +428.43% (above 0%: growing) 49.73% 24.26%
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Median of peers $36.6M — — −7.77% — −203.25% 50.24% 0.00%

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United-Guardian, Inc. (UG) key facts

  • Concern: United-Guardian, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $10.5 million, down 13.4% from fiscal 2024.
  • Concern: Net income was $2.1 million, or $0.46 per share (basic), a net margin of 20.0%.
  • United-Guardian, Inc. (UG) is a Household & Personal Products company in the Consumer Defensive sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • As of October 12, 2026, UG traded at $6.90, a market capitalization of $31.7 million.
  • At that price the stock trades at 12.8× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 2.8× sales; its P/E is higher than 2% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • United-Guardian, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share, a yield of 7.97%, with a payout ratio of 101.9%.
  • Return on equity was 18.2% and debt-to-equity 0.00.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 5 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 12.53 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

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