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Unilever plc (UL)

NYSE: UL · Soap, Detergents, Cleang Preparations, Perfumes, Cosmetics · London · filing with the SEC since 1999
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Grade5.3
◀ Past 4.7● Present 5.7▶ Future 5.4
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The grade of Unilever plc

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.3/10
◀ Past4.730% of the headline
● Present5.740% of the headline
▶ Future5.430% 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?

4.7/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
6.7/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2017.

weight 33% of this tense · 67th percentile among 15 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Unilever plc's filings since 2017 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
3.2/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

-0.5% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10.

weight 45% of this tense · 32nd percentile among 15 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Unilever plc's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from EUR 53 billion in fiscal 2016 to EUR 51 billion in fiscal 2025, down 0.5% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 16% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span-0.5%bottom 3% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 23% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 30% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak15.9%bottom 30% 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 shrank 1.2% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 48th percentile among 13 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Unilever plc's diluted share count shrank about 1.2% 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 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 11% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 8% 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?

5.7/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
6.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 57%: 57¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 75%: owes 75¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 15 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Unilever plc earned about 57 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 34 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 75 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 17% of its family
  • return on equitytop 10% of its family
  • gross profit against assetstop 30% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 25% of its family

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

Industry position

as filed
5.3/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 47% of 15 in its family; net margin 19.8%.

weight 33% of this tense · 53rd percentile among 15 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Unilever plc's standing among 15 graded names in its industry family: revenue of EUR 51 billion in fiscal 2025 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of 19.8% ranks in the top 3%; revenue growth of -5.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 10% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin19.8%top 3% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-5.6%bottom 10% of its family

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

Leadership

SI estimate
4.9/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 4.9/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 12 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 12 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read.
How it was reasoned
family median, 12 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Unilever plc's leadership is put at 4.9 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; no officer or director has filed a Form 3, 4 or 5 for it in the last fifteen months, so the years in charge cannot be read, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 12 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ 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
6.2/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 38% of 15 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 62nd percentile among 15 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Unilever plc's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of EUR 3.9 billion against debt of EUR 26 billion leaves -31.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 37% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 13.7% of revenue (top 23%); a gross margin of 46.9% (top 17%); research spending of 1.7% of revenue (top 50%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets-31.4%bottom 37% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue13.7%top 23% of its family
  • gross margin46.9%top 17% of its family
  • research spending against revenue1.7%top 50% of its family

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

Growth drivers

as filed
2.5/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 25% of 15 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 15 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Unilever plc's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -5.6% a year over the last three filed years against -0.5% over all 10, slowing (bottom 30% of its family); the newest year grew -3.8% (bottom 10%); research spending grew -2.7% a year (bottom 18%); capital spending grew -0.9% a year (bottom 43%) (its annual reports). Unilever plc tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-5.1 points a yearbottom 30% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth-3.8%bottom 10% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending-2.7%bottom 18% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-0.9%bottom 43% 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
8.0/10

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

top 20% of 14 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 80th percentile among 14 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Unilever plc's newest year against its own record: revenue of EUR 51 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3% above the EUR 49 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 32% of its family); net income of EUR 10 billion against a prior three-year average of EUR 7.3 billion (top 18%); a net margin of 19.8% against 13.2% before (top 11%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace3.0%top 32% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+38%top 18% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+6.6 pointstop 11% 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 UL · research, not advice