Healthcare
Live Price
Offline$67.80
-0.48% today
1Y Change
-26.73%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 244 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Alcon Inc. (ALC) is a Healthcare stock with a market cap of $35.82B. The stock last traded around $67.80 and down 26.7% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +4.9%, EPS growth of -3.4%, a dividend yield of 0.5%. What stands out right now is revenue +4.9%, EPS -3.4%, free cash flow +22.8% with operating margin 13.1% and ROIC 3.9%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 0.5%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 36.7 and price/sales 3.4. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines ALC price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Healthcare peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
ALC is 47.59 pts behind over the shared 1Y window.
ALC had 23.61 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
ALC beat SPY in 0 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 2.
ALC
-26.73%
Normalized return
SPY
+20.86%
S&P 500
Excess Return
-47.59 pts
Relative to SPY
ALC Max Drawdown
-32.75%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for ALC and SPY.
| Year | ALC | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | -16.65% | +6.71% | -23.36 pts | SPY |
| 2025 | -10.16% | +11.19% | -21.35 pts | SPY |
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$8.3B
-4.9% YoY
FY Net Income
$376.0M
+12.2% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$165.0M
-65.0% YoY
Revenue Growth
+4.9%
EPS Growth
-3.4%
Gross Margin
54.8%
Net Margin
9.4%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 10.4B | 9.9B | 9.5B | 8.7B | 8.3B |
| Gross Profit | 5.7B | 5.5B | 5.2B | 4.7B | 4.7B |
| Operating Income | 1.4B | 1.4B | 1.0B | 672M | 580M |
| EBITDA | 2.4B | 2.7B | 2.2B | 1.8B | 1.8B |
| Net Income | 980M | 1.0B | 974M | 335M | 376M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 1.5B | 1.7B | 1.1B | 980M | 1.6B |
| Total Assets | 31.6B | 30.3B | 29.6B | 29.2B | 28.0B |
| Total Liabilities | 9.5B | 8.8B | 9.0B | 9.5B | 8.7B |
| Shareholder Equity | 22.0B | 21.6B | 20.6B | 19.7B | 19.3B |
| Total Debt | 5.2B | 5.1B | 5.1B | 5.1B | 4.5B |
| Net Debt | 3.7B | 3.5B | 4.0B | 4.1B | 2.9B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
1.3B
+10.5% YoY
Capital Expenditures
1.2B
-58.4% YoY
Free Cash Flow
165M
-65.0% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
54.8%
Operating Margin
13.1%
Net Margin
9.4%
ROE
4.4%
Debt / Equity
0.24x
Next Step
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