Globalfoundries Inc. key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Globalfoundries Inc. had return on equity of 7.8%, an operating margin of 11.7%, debt equal to 9.6% of equity and a current ratio of 2.62. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | −9.2% | −14.7% | 15.4% | 27.6% | 28.4% | 24.5% | 24.9% |
| Operating margin | −28.0% | −34.1% | −0.9% | 14.4% | 15.3% | −3.2% | 11.7% |
| Net margin | −23.6% | −27.8% | −3.8% | 17.9% | 13.8% | −3.9% | 13.0% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | −1.6% | 8.5% | 16.3% | −5.4% | 4.3% | 16.3% | 14.9% |
| Return on equity | −15.2% | −16.7% | −3.3% | 16.2% | 9.7% | −2.4% | 7.8% |
| Return on assets | — | −11.0% | −1.8% | 8.8% | 5.7% | −1.5% | 5.2% |
| Asset turnover | — | 0.39 | 0.48 | 0.49 | 0.41 | 0.39 | 0.40 |
| Current ratio | — | 1.58 | 1.67 | 1.73 | 2.04 | 2.11 | 2.62 |
| Debt to equity | 30.3% | 32.6% | 25.2% | 25.3% | 21.4% | 16.8% | 9.6% |
| Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest) | n/m | n/m | n/m | 50.7x | 53.8x | n/m | 36.2x |
| Effective tax rate | — | — | — | 5.6% | 6.1% | — | 2.5% |
| R&D as % of revenue | 10.0% | 9.8% | 7.3% | 5.9% | 5.8% | 7.3% | 7.6% |
| Capital spending as % of revenue | 10.1% | 12.2% | 26.8% | 37.7% | 24.4% | 9.3% | 10.6% |
| Free cash flow ÷ net income | — | — | — | −30.0% | 31.5% | — | 114.0% |
| Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow | — | — | — | — | 0.0% | 18.2% | 0.0% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $6.2bn of assets due within a year against $2.4bn of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $6.2bn short-term assets against $2.8bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $1.8bn of cash against $1.2bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 10% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 27% to 10% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $1.7bn of operating cash flow against $1.2bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $797m against $22m of interest.
Moat
Not assessed: fewer than five years of comparable figures in the filings. AI disruption exposure for this industry: Low.
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