Air Products & Chemicals

Year ended September 30, 2025

Running the business cost more than it earned from sales: it lost about $7 on every $100 before interest and tax.

What it is: Operating income as a share of sales: of each $100 of sales, what's left after paying for what was sold and for running the business, before interest and tax.

Year ended September 30, 2025

After every cost, it lost about $3 for every $100 of sales.

What it is: Net income as a share of sales: what's left after every cost, including interest and tax. A 10% net profit margin means $10 of final profit for every $100 of sales.

Year ended September 30, 2025

Split across all its shares, the year's loss comes to $1.77 per share.

What it is: Net income divided by the average number of shares during the period. "Diluted" EPS also counts shares that could still be created, for example from staff stock awards, so it's usually slightly lower.

Year ended September 30, 2025

For every $100 that belongs to shareholders on paper, it made about $-2 of profit in a year.

What it is: Net income for a year divided by the average shareholders' equity over that year. A 20% ROE means $20 of profit for every $100 of owners' money in the business.

Year ended September 30, 2025

It spent more on running the business and on buildings and equipment than the business brought in, so it had to use savings or borrow.

What it is: Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure: the cash left after the business pays for the buildings and equipment it needs. It's what the company can use to pay dividends, buy back shares, repay debt or save.

On June 30, 2026

It had about $1.08 of cash and other short-term assets for every $1 of bills due within a year, more than enough to cover them.

What it is: Current assets (cash, money customers owe it, stock and anything else it expects to turn into cash within a year) divided by current liabilities (bills it must pay within a year). 1.5 means $1.50 coming in for every $1 due.

On June 30, 2026

Everything it owns (buildings, cash, stock, money owed to it) is worth about $1.70 for every $1 it owes in total.

What it is: Everything the company owes: loans, bonds, bills to suppliers, taxes due, and other obligations.

$12 billion vs $12.1 billion a year earlier

Year ended September 30, 2025, vs the year before

It sold less than the year before.

What it is: All the money a company takes in from selling its products and services, before paying any costs. Also called sales.

$3.2 billion vs $3 billion a year earlier

Quarter ended June 30, 2026, vs the same quarter a year earlier

Its latest three months brought in more sales than the same three months a year earlier.

What it is: A three-month period. US public companies report their results every quarter.

-$394.5 million vs $3.8 billion a year earlier

Year ended September 30, 2025, vs the year before

A percentage change isn't meaningful here, because one of the two figures was a loss or zero.