Company Analysis

Solventum Corporation (SOLV)

NYSE: SOLV · Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus · St. Paul, MN · filing with the SEC since 2023
Grade6.0
◀ Past 6.9● Present 6.5▶ Future 4.3
1 est.

The grade of Solventum Corporation

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
6.0/10
◀ Past6.930% of the headline
● Present6.540% of the headline
▶ Future4.330% of the headline

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

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.3/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2023.

weight 33% of this tense · 83rd percentile among 121 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Solventum Corporation's filings since 2023 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
7.0/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+0.8% a year over 4 filed years; profitable in 4 of 4.

weight 45% of this tense · 70th percentile among 105 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Solventum Corporation's 4 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $8.1 billion in fiscal 2022 to $8.3 billion in fiscal 2025, up 0.8% a year; it rose in 3 of 3 years; it never fell from a peak; net income was positive in 4 of 4 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span0.8%bottom 17% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 15% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 6% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 16% of its family

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

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.8/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.5% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 1 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 48th percentile among 40 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Solventum Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.5% 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 0 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $100 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 18% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 13% 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?

6.5/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.1/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 31%: 31¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 65%: owes 65¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 61st percentile among 120 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Solventum Corporation earned about 31 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 31 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 65 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.9% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 30% of its family
  • return on equitytop 2% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 45% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 29% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
7.0/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 30% of 109 in its family; net margin 18.7%.

weight 33% of this tense · 70th percentile among 109 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Solventum Corporation's standing among 109 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $8.3 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 6% by size; a net margin of 18.7% ranks in the top 7%; revenue growth of 0.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 24% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$8.32Btop 6% of its family
  • net margin18.7%top 7% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth0.8%bottom 24% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
6.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 6.5/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 65th percentile among 108 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 35% of 108 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2024-03-13 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 2.6 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2024-03-13 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 2.6 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 108 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Solventum Corporation's leadership is put at 6.5 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the top 35% of 108 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2024-03-13 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 2.6 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.3/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
3.5/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 35% of 104 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 35th percentile among 104 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Solventum Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $878 million against debt of $5.0 billion leaves -29.1% of its assets as net cash, bottom 8% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -0.1% of revenue (top 42%); a gross margin of 53.5% (bottom 34%); research spending of 8.9% of revenue (bottom 39%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-29.1%bottom 8% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue-0.1%top 42% of its family
  • gross margin53.5%bottom 34% of its family
  • research spending against revenue8.9%bottom 39% 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 105 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 45th percentile among 105 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Solventum Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 0.8% a year over the last three filed years against 0.8% over all 4, speeding up (top 43% of its family); the newest year grew 0.9% (bottom 22%); research spending grew -1.2% a year (bottom 30%); capital spending grew 14.7% a year (top 30%) (its annual reports). Solventum Corporation reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Product at $6.3 billion (76%), Cost of Software and Rentals at $2.0 billion (24%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+0.0 points a yeartop 43% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth0.9%bottom 22% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-1.2%bottom 30% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending14.7%top 30% 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
5.6/10

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

top 44% of 88 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 56th percentile among 88 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Solventum Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $8.3 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.1% above the $8.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 38% of its family); net income of $1.6 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.1 billion (top 36%); a net margin of 18.7% against 12.9% before (bottom 43%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace0.1%top 38% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+47%top 36% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+5.8 pointsbottom 43% 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 SOLV · research, not advice