Keurig Dr Pepper key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Keurig Dr Pepper had return on equity of 8.4% and a net margin of 12.5%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2009Dec 2009 | 2010Dec 2010 | 2011Dec 2011 | 2012Dec 2012 | 2013Dec 2013 | 2014Dec 2014 | 2015Dec 2015 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Sept 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 10.0% | 9.4% | 10.3% | 10.5% | 10.4% | 11.5% | 12.2% | 13.2% | 8.9% | 7.9% | 11.3% | 11.4% | 16.9% | 10.2% | 14.7% | 9.4% | 12.5% | 7.1% |
| Return on equity | 17.4% | 18.7% | 25.7% | 27.7% | 27.4% | 30.8% | 34.1% | 39.2% | 8.4% | 4.0% | 5.5% | 5.6% | 8.8% | 5.7% | 8.6% | 5.8% | 8.4% | 5.6% |
| Return on assets | 6.3% | 6.0% | 6.7% | 6.9% | 7.3% | 8.5% | 8.9% | 9.1% | 2.9% | 1.8% | 2.5% | 2.7% | 4.3% | 2.8% | 4.2% | 2.7% | 3.8% | 2.0% |
| Effective tax rate | 36.3% | 35.8% | 34.6% | 35.7% | −14.9% | 34.6% | 35.5% | 33.8% | 32.5% | 25.5% | 26.0% | 24.4% | 23.3% | 16.5% | 20.9% | 24.7% | 22.6% | 24.2% |
| R&D as % of revenue | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 1.3% | 0.9% | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.5% | 0.4% | — |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 38.6% | 39.6% | 38.2% | 37.8% | 37.9% | 38.1% | 36.8% | 36.2% | 26.9% | 35.4% | 35.6% | 34.2% | 32.7% | 33.0% | 33.2% | 32.7% | 32.2% | 32.6% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 0.0% | 36.7% | 41.4% | 45.2% | 48.4% | 45.1% | 46.5% | 45.6% | 14.6% | 39.6% | 67.3% | 63.8% | 44.5% | 75.2% | 52.4% | 82.9% | 60.1% | 87.5% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $9.5bn of assets due within a year against $19.7bn of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $9.5bn short-term assets against $34.2bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $1.5bn of cash against $30.0bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 120% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 46% to 120% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $2.5bn of operating cash flow against $30.0bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Interest not separately reported. Not assessable.
Moat
Strong moat
How hard Keurig Dr Pepper's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 10 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 6 / 20
Cash operating profit has been a median 5.7% of total assets over 10 years.
- Pricing power 18 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 53.8%, moving by 2.5 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
- Durability 16 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 19.9%; its worst year was 16.2%.
- Cash conversion 18 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 10 of 10 years, at a median 16.6% of revenue.
- Discipline 18 / 20
The diluted share count fell 4.3% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.7% of revenue.
AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.
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