Timken Co key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Timken Co had return on equity of 9.6% and a net margin of 6.3%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2011Dec 2011 | 2012Dec 2012 | 2013Dec 2013 | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 365.2% | 461.4% | 328.0% | 5.3% | 6.8% | 8.5% | 9.6% | 8.1% | 8.9% | 9.1% | 8.3% | 7.7% | 6.3% | 5.4% |
| Return on equity | 22.4% | 23.3% | 10.8% | 7.2% | 14.9% | 20.0% | 21.0% | 14.2% | 16.6% | 17.9% | 16.2% | 13.0% | 9.6% | 8.1% |
| Return on assets | 10.5% | 11.6% | 6.0% | 3.9% | 6.6% | 7.6% | 7.7% | 5.7% | 7.2% | 7.4% | 6.4% | 5.4% | 4.4% | 3.8% |
| Effective tax rate | 29.7% | 36.7% | 29.9% | 21.2% | 15.9% | 19.3% | 20.7% | 26.2% | 20.0% | 24.3% | 23.1% | 24.1% | 23.7% | 25.9% |
| R&D as % of revenue | 39.9% | 42.6% | 49.1% | 1.2% | 1.2% | 1.0% | 1.1% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 503.4% | 516.3% | 682.4% | 16.5% | 16.9% | 16.2% | 16.3% | 15.2% | 14.0% | 14.2% | 15.5% | 16.4% | 16.3% | 16.4% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 16.7% | 18.0% | 33.3% | 58.0% | 41.0% | 28.3% | 23.4% | 30.6% | 25.0% | 22.5% | 23.9% | 27.2% | 34.1% | 38.3% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $2.8bn of assets due within a year against $918m of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities Not assessable from the reported split. Not assessable.
- More cash than debt $399m of cash against $2.1bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 65% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 61% to 65% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $531m of operating cash flow against $2.1bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $502m against $104m of interest.
Moat
Moderate moat
How hard Timken'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 11 / 20
Cash operating profit has been a median 9.1% of total assets over 10 years.
- Pricing power 11 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 29.6%, moving by 1.4 percentage points (standard deviation) across 9 years.
- Durability 13 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 13.0%; its worst year was 10.5%.
- Cash conversion 14 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 9 of 9 years, at a median 8.1% of revenue.
- Discipline 20 / 20
The diluted share count fell 8.9% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.6% 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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