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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

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Timken Co: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year2011Dec 20112012Dec 20122013Dec 20132016Dec 20162017Dec 20172018Dec 20182019Dec 20192020Dec 20202021Dec 20212022Dec 20222023Dec 20232024Dec 20242025Dec 2025LTMJun 2026
Net margin365.2%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 equity22.4%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 assets10.5%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 rate29.7%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 revenue39.9%42.6%49.1%1.2%1.2%1.0%1.1%———————
SG&A as % of revenue503.4%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 income16.7%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%

Returns use average equity or assets over the year. Return on equity is left blank when equity is negative or so small that the ratio says nothing (above ±200%); interest cover is left blank above 200 times. Price-based ratios such as P/E are on the valuation page.

Financial health

2 of 6 checks passed · June 30, 2026
What it owns · $6.8bn
Short-term assets $2.8bnLonger-term assets $4.0bn
What it owes, and who funded it · $4.1bn
Short-term liabilities $918mShareholders' equity $3.2bn
  • 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.

From Timken Co's latest balance sheet as filed. Checks are fixed, documented rules (methodology), counted only where the company reports the figures — a dot means the filing doesn't break the item out. Descriptions of reported data, not advice.

Moat

69 /100

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.

A rules-based reading of reported figures, not a forecast and not investment advice. How the score is built: methodology.

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Figures from Timken Co's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 20, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Timken Co.