Company Analysis

Sotera Health Company (SHC)

Nasdaq: SHC · Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, NEC · Broadview Heights, OH · filing with the SEC since 2020
Grade5.6
◀ Past 6.3● Present 5.2▶ Future 5.4

The grade of Sotera Health Company

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.6/10
◀ Past6.330% of the headline
● Present5.240% of the headline
▶ Future5.430% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

All nine metrics read as filed from the record.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2020.

weight 33% of this tense · 82nd percentile among 11 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Sotera Health Company's filings since 2020 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
6.5/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+6.9% a year over 7 filed years; profitable in 4 of 7.

weight 45% of this tense · 65th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Sotera Health Company's 7 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $778 million in fiscal 2019 to $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up 6.9% a year; it rose in 6 of 6 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 4 of 7 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span6.9%bottom 45% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 10% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 35% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
3.2/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.7% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 18 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 7 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Sotera Health Company's diluted share count grew about 0.7% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 18 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 50% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.2/1040% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
5.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 13%: 13¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 81%: owes 81¢ per asset dollar.

weight 33% of this tense · 55th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Sotera Health Company earned about 13 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 20 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 81 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 45% of its family
  • return on equitytop 19% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 44% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 39% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
6.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 40% of 10 in its family; net margin 6.7%.

weight 45% of this tense · 60th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Sotera Health Company's standing among 10 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 39% by size; a net margin of 6.7% ranks in the top 15%; revenue growth of 5.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 35% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$1.16Btop 39% of its family
  • net margin6.7%top 15% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth5.1%bottom 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
3.1/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 31% of 7 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2026.

weight 22% of this tense · 31st percentile among 7 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Sotera Health Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Shader, Alton (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-05-27, 6 months (bottom 19% of its family); the 17 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5.5 years (bottom 36%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 17 people in charge now (bottom 39%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge8 in three years among 17 peoplebottom 39% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed5.5 yearsbottom 36% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record6 monthsbottom 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 42% of 10 in its family for room to expand.

weight 22% of this tense · 42nd percentile among 10 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Sotera Health Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $346 million against debt of $2.1 billion leaves -55% of its assets as net cash, bottom 5% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 12.8% of revenue (top 35%); a gross margin of 55.5% (top 44%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-55.0%bottom 5% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue12.8%top 35% of its family
  • gross margin55.5%top 44% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 45% of 10 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 45% of this tense · 45th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Sotera Health Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 5.1% a year over the last three filed years against 6.9% over all 7, slowing (bottom 35% of its family); the newest year grew 5.7% (top 35%); capital spending grew -8.9% a year (bottom 35%) (its annual reports). Sotera Health Company reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Sterigenics at $756 million (65%), Nelson Labs at $220 million (19%), Nordion at $188 million (16%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-1.9 points a yearbottom 35% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth5.7%top 35% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-8.9%bottom 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
7.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

top 25% of 10 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 75th percentile among 10 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Sotera Health Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1% above the $1.2 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 25% of its family); net income of $78 million against a prior three-year average of $46 million (top 15%); a net margin of 6.7% against -4.8% before (top 35%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace1.0%top 25% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+270%top 15% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+11.5 pointstop 35% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton SHC · research, not advice