UL Solutions Inc.

ULS Industrials Specialty Business Services

UL Solutions Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $3.1 billion, up 6.38% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+5.11%
EPS
+6.00%
Free cash flow
+41.3%
Total debt
+40.4%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

79.80 0.60 −0.75%
Market cap
$16.2B
P/E
31.5×
Fwd P/E
26.9×
Dividend yield
0.71%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
7.80
Beneish M
−2.77
Dividend safety
81/100

UL Solutions Inc. (ULS) valuation and DCF model

What the price implies · reverse DCF

At $79.80 the price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 14.4% a year for ten years.

The industry’s median company is priced for 14.5%.

Price implies
14.4%
Industry median implies
14.5%

The headline discounts the last twelve months’ free cash flow after share-based pay at 9.0% for ten years and grows it 2.5% a year after that, the same for every company, so the figure compares across the market (how a reverse DCF works).

The other way round · DCF
The price needs
14.4% a year for ten years
$79.80
today’s price
Its base case
5.0% a year for five years, then 3.0%
$37.31
53.2% below today’s price

Both are growth in free cash flow after share-based pay, discounted at 9.0%, with 2.5% a year after year ten.

Base case on its own ten-year record UL Solutions Inc.’s own growth, carried forward

Its assumptions

Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.

The base case’s inputs, which Powerpack lets you change
1 · Cash flow to equity
the four quarters to September 2026, from the 10-Q and 10-K filings, before share-based pay

Yearly growth in cash flow. It usually slows as the company matures.

Today’s price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 14.4% a year for ten years.

2 · Rates

Cost of equity is the yearly return shareholders require, typically 8–11%. Terminal growth is growth forever after year 10, usually near long-run inflation, 2–3%.

3 · Per share

Diluted shares outstanding. Net debt, under Advanced inputs, is taken off before dividing.

Advanced inputs
negative is net cash
new shares the cash flow does not pay for

Against UL Solutions Inc.’s own cost of capital: risk-free 4.3% + beta 0.62 × equity premium 4.5% = 7.1% cost of equity; weighted, 7.1%.

Use 7.1%
Equity value $7.60b ▼ below market cap $16.26b
Base case value per share $37.31 equity value ÷ 203.75m shares
Current price $79.80 market price per share
Below today’s price 53.2% downside at the base case’s assumptions

How we got there$3.29b 10 years of cash to equity+$4.06b terminal value+$252.00m net cash=$7.60b equity value÷203.75m shares=$37.31 per share

Valuation against its own history

Today’s multiple against its 5- and 10-year averages and the industry median (Specialty Business Services).

Multiple Current 5Y avg 10Y avg vs 10Y avg Industry median vs industry 10Y range
P/E 31.49× 32.32× 31.18× 1% above 25.69× 23% above
P/FCF 33.59× 33.28× 32.63× 3% above 16.50× 104% above
P/B 9.30× 10.54× 10.49× 11% below 2.31× 302% above
EV/EBITDA 20.97× 17.19× 16.49× 27% above 11.75× 78% above
EV/Sales 5.01× 3.89× 3.70× 35% above 1.57× 219% above
24.89×32.38×39.87×47.37×10Y avg 31.18×202120222023202420252026

ULS trades at 31.49× P/E, against a 10-year average of 31.18× (range 25.50×–48.68×). That is dearer than 80% of the last 5 year-end readings; re-rating to the average implies $79.02 per share.

Every growth rate on this page is the business’s — its cash flow, FFO or dividend — never its share price’s. A discounted-cash-flow model is only as good as its assumptions. Figures from the 10-K and 10-Q filings. Not investment advice.