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UL Solutions

ULS
48
Specialty Business Services · Industrials
Winston Score
48
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

UL Solutions helps companies test and certify their products to make sure they are safe and meet legal requirements. It serves manufacturers across industries like electronics, appliances, medical devices, and industrial equipment. The company is best known for the "UL" safety mark, one of the most recognized certification labels in the world, which appears on billions of products sold globally.

UL Solutions earns money by charging fees for testing, inspection, and certification services, as well as software and advisory services that help clients manage safety and compliance data. It operates in over 40 countries and generates roughly $3 billion in annual revenue. Its main competitive advantage is the trust and recognition built around the UL mark over more than a century, which makes switching to a lesser-known certifier difficult for most manufacturers. The key risk is that slower global industrial production or regulatory changes could reduce demand for new product certifications.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+7.5% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

+35.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

1.4%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$258M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth context

UL Solutions is growing revenue at 8% year-over-year. The Winston Score measures business quality today — these growth metrics show what could matter tomorrow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin
50.3%
Healthy — 50.3% gross margin
Operating Margin
18.2%
Healthy — 18.2% operating margin
ROCE
7.4%
Weak — 7.4% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+6.9%
Slow sales growth (6.9% YoY)
EPS YoY
+3.0%
Flat earnings

Single-digit earnings growth — steady but not exciting.

EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
191%
Turns 191% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
14.5%
Converts sales into free cash efficiently (14.5%)

FCF margin between 10% and 20%. Every $100 in sales becomes $10 to $20 in real cash.

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.40
Conservative — low debt load (0.40)
Interest Cover
14.90x
Comfortably covers interest (14.9x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
50.4x
no trend
Expensive — P/E 50.4

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward
+10.7
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (50.4 → 39.7)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
0.60%
no trend
Small dividend — 0.60% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth
+7.8%
no trend
Dividend growing modestly (7.8% YoY)

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