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 item | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 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 item | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 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 item | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 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
| Metric | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profitability | ||||||
| Gross margin | 65.8% | 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 margin | 20.8% | 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 income | 0.02 | 0.71 | -0.19 | 1.04 | 0.16 | -1.74 |
| R&D / Revenue | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| SG&A / Revenue | 25.1% | 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 ratio | 1.08 | 1.05 | 1.30 | 1.61 | 1.45 | 1.09 |
| Quick ratio | 1.08 | 1.05 | 1.30 | 1.61 | 1.45 | 1.09 |
| Cash ratio | 0.66 | 0.58 | 0.33 | 0.44 | 0.22 | 0.30 |
| Leverage | ||||||
| Debt / Equity | 0.80 | 0.66 | 0.78 | 0.56 | 0.52 | 0.98 |
| Debt / Assets | 0.35 | 0.32 | 0.35 | 0.29 | 0.29 | 0.23 |
| Debt / EBITDA | 7.69 | 8.68 | 7.20 | 5.44 | 3.69 | 3.01 |
| Interest coverage | -0.0x | -0.1x | -0.3x | 0.2x | 1.5x | 1.8x |
| Equity multiplier | 2.32 | 2.06 | 2.21 | 1.91 | 1.81 | 4.33 |
| Liabilities / Assets | 0.56 | 0.51 | 0.55 | 0.47 | 0.45 | 0.77 |
| Efficiency | ||||||
| Asset turnover | 0.22 | 0.17 | 0.18 | 0.17 | 0.22 | 0.20 |
| Inventory turnover | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Days sales outstanding | 42d | 38d | 42d | 42d | 32d | 33d |
| Days inventory outstanding | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Days payable outstanding | 105d | 93d | 106d | 107d | 74d | 66d |
| 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 totalTelenet$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 totalResidential$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 totalBE$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
Comparing Liberty Global plc against the 5 most active filers in the same SIC group.