CoverageForm 410-K10-Q8-K13D13G13F

LBTY · Liberty Global PLC - Financials

Annual line items from SEC XBRL filings, sourced from EDGAR's Company Facts API with fallback to the quarterly Financial Statement Data Sets. See issuer overview for Form 4 activity and 10-K signals.

Income Statement

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Revenue$4.88B$4.34B$7.49B$7.20B$10.31B$11.98B
Cost of Revenue$1.67B$1.45B$2.38B$2.09B$3.02B$3.44B
Gross Profit$3.21B$2.89B$5.11B$5.11B$7.29B$8.54B
R&D------
SG&A$1.22B$1.14B$1.76B$1.62B$2.15B$2.22B
Total Operating Expenses$4.90B$4.40B$7.74B$7.05B$8.99B$9.86B
D&A$1.04B$1.00B$2.32B$2.17B$2.35B$2.33B
Operating Income($23.30M)($60.10M)($244.50M)$146.80M$1.32B$2.12B
Interest Expense$497.50M$574.70M$907.90M$589.30M$882.10M$1.19B
Income Tax($75.80M)($30.80M)$149.60M$318.90M$473.30M($256.90M)
Net Income($7.14B)$1.59B($4.05B)$1.47B$13.43B($1.63B)
EPS - Basic($20.86)$4.33($9.52)$3.01($2.70)-
EPS - Diluted($20.86)$4.23($9.52)$2.96($2.70)-

Balance Sheet

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Cash & Equivalents$2.08B$1.82B$1.42B$1.73B$910.60M$1.33B
Accounts Receivable$558.20M$449.80M$870.10M$830.60M$907.30M$1.09B
Inventory------
Accounts Payable$478.70M$371.20M$689.80M$610.10M$613.40M$618.20M
Current Assets$3.40B$3.30B$5.64B$6.30B$5.94B$4.85B
Total Assets$22.60B$25.44B$42.09B$42.90B$46.92B$59.09B
Current Liabilities$3.16B$3.13B$4.33B$3.92B$4.08B$4.47B
Long-term Debt$7.81B$8.18B$14.91B$12.61B$13.56B$13.39B
Total Liabilities$12.65B$12.90B$23.08B$20.32B$21.32B$45.79B
Stockholders' Equity$9.74B$12.37B$19.06B$22.44B$25.93B$13.66B
Retained Earnings$5.10B$12.24B$15.57B$19.62B$18.14B$4.69B

Cash Flow

Line itemFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Operating Cash Flow$1.21B$2.03B$2.17B$2.84B$3.55B$4.19B
Investing Cash Flow($874.90M)$684.70M($1.84B)$1.28B($5.80B)($8.87B)
Financing Cash Flow($226.10M)($2.25B)($692.40M)($3.28B)($1.55B)$1.08B
CapEx$1.34B$908.50M$1.39B$1.30B$1.41B$1.35B
Free Cash Flow($132.00M)$1.12B$779.90M$1.53B$2.14B$2.84B

Ratios

MetricFY 2025FY 2024FY 2023FY 2022FY 2021FY 2020
Profitability
Gross margin65.8%66.6%68.2%71.0%70.7%71.3%
Operating margin-0.5%-1.4%-3.3%2.0%12.8%17.7%
EBITDA margin20.8%21.7%27.6%32.2%35.6%37.1%
Net margin-146.3%36.6%-54.1%20.5%130.2%-13.6%
Free cash flow margin-2.7%25.9%10.4%21.3%20.8%23.7%
FCF / Net income0.020.71-0.191.040.16-1.74
R&D / Revenue------
SG&A / Revenue25.1%26.2%23.5%22.5%20.9%18.5%
Effective tax rate--2.0%-17.8%3.4%-
Return on assets-31.6%6.2%-9.6%3.4%28.6%-2.8%
Return on equity-73.3%12.8%-21.3%6.6%51.8%-11.9%
Return on invested capital-0.1%-0.3%-0.6%0.3%3.2%6.2%
Liquidity
Current ratio1.081.051.301.611.451.09
Quick ratio1.081.051.301.611.451.09
Cash ratio0.660.580.330.440.220.30
Leverage
Debt / Equity0.800.660.780.560.520.98
Debt / Assets0.350.320.350.290.290.23
Debt / EBITDA7.698.687.205.443.693.01
Interest coverage-0.0x-0.1x-0.3x0.2x1.5x1.8x
Equity multiplier2.322.062.211.911.814.33
Liabilities / Assets0.560.510.550.470.450.77
Efficiency
Asset turnover0.220.170.180.170.220.20
Inventory turnover------
Days sales outstanding42d38d42d42d32d33d
Days inventory outstanding------
Days payable outstanding105d93d106d107d74d66d
Cash conversion cycle------
Valuation
P / E------
P / B------
P / S------
EV / EBITDA------
Growth
Revenue growth (YoY)12.4%-42.0%4.1%-30.2%-13.9%3.8%
Revenue CAGR (3y)-12.2%-25.0%-14.5%-14.6%-4.8%-7.3%
Revenue CAGR (5y)-16.4%-17.8%-8.9%-13.7%-12.4%-8.1%
Gross profit growth (YoY)11.0%-43.4%-0.1%-29.9%-14.6%2.9%
Operating income growth (YoY)61.2%75.4%--88.9%-37.7%184.1%
Net income growth (YoY)----89.0%--
EPS growth (YoY)------
EPS CAGR (3y)------
EPS CAGR (5y)------
FCF growth (YoY)-44.2%-49.2%-28.3%-24.5%-15.2%
FCF CAGR (5y)--19.6%-29.6%-16.4%-8.2%-2.4%
Book value growth (YoY)-21.3%-35.1%-15.0%-13.5%89.8%0.4%

Sales by segment

From XBRL dimensional facts in the 10-K period ending 2025-12-31.

Business segments

$5.80B total
Telenet$3.21B · 55.3%
Reportable Segment Aggregation Before Other Operating Segment$1.34B · 23.1%
JVReportable Segments$591.10M · 10.2%
Ireland$494.80M · 8.5%
Reportable Segment$165.30M · 2.8%

Product / service

$12.38B total
Residential$2.43B · 19.7%
Total Residential Fixed Revenue$1.76B · 14.2%
Total Subscription Revenue$1.74B · 14.0%
Other Category$1.55B · 12.5%
Broadband Internet$949.60M · 7.7%
Businessto Business$899.10M · 7.3%
Mobile Residential$669.40M · 5.4%
Video$600.40M · 4.9%
Mobile Subscription$500.30M · 4.0%
Businessto Business Non Subscription$452.10M · 3.7%
Businessto Business Subscription$447.00M · 3.6%
Fixed Line Telephony$185.90M · 1.5%
Mobile Non Subscription$169.10M · 1.4%
Non Subscription Revenue$27.60M · 0.2%

Geographic

$3.57B total
BE$3.02B · 84.6%
IE$494.80M · 13.9%
SK$53.50M · 1.5%

Stability scores

Altman Z′

FY 2025 · bankruptcy risk

0.73
Distress

Private-firm variant - uses book equity instead of market cap. > 2.90 safe · 1.23-2.90 grey · < 1.23 distress.

Piotroski F-score

FY 2025 · 9-point quality

6/9
Neutral
  • Net income positive
  • Operating cash flow positive
  • ROA improved YoY
  • Cash flow > net income
  • Long-term debt decreased
  • Current ratio improved
  • No share dilution
  • Gross margin improved
  • Asset turnover improved

Peer comparison

Same SIC group: Cable & Other Pay Television Services

CompanyRevenue (last FY)Net marginROE
ROKU$4.74B1.9%3.3%
CHTR$54.77B9.1%31.1%
CMCSA$123.71B16.2%20.6%
WBD$37.30B1.9%2.0%
LILA---110.0%

Comparing Liberty Global plc against the 5 most active filers in the same SIC group.