Danaos Corp
DAC NYSE· Deep Sea Foreign Transportation Of Freight
Last close · Oct 30, 2026
$157.02
KIRA · Stoqly’s AI analyst, in plain words
- Danaos Corp had $1.0B of revenue in fiscal 2025, up 2.8% on the year before. Over five years, revenue changed +17.7% a year on average.
- Its operating margin was 47.8%, down 5.5 pts: of every 100 in sales, about 48 is left after running the business.
- Danaos Corp made $495M of net profit in fiscal 2025.
- Danaos Corp returned $139M to shareholders in fiscal 2025. The diluted share count fell 4.7%.
- Danaos Corp has $2.4M more cash than debt.
Market cap
$2.9B
P/E
5.9x
Revenue
$1.0B
Net income
$495M
Free cash flow
—
Operating margin
47.8%
Danaos Corp in 30 seconds · fiscal 2025
Are sales growing?
+2.8%
Only a little. Sales grew 2.8% last year.
Does it make a profit?
47.4%
Yes. It keeps 47.4% of every sale as profit.
Is debt under control?
Net cash
Yes. It has more cash than debt.
How healthy are the accounts?
4 / 8
Mixed. It passes 4 of 8 health tests.
How is the share priced?
5.9x
One share costs 5.9 times its yearly profit per share.
What Danaos Corp does
No business description yet.
- Fiscal year ends
- December 31, 2025
- Latest annual report
- 20-F · Feb 27, 2026
- Legal name
- Danaos Corp
- CIK
- 0001369241
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Results and finances
The last 5 fiscal years. Amounts in USD. Compiled by stoqly.net.
| Fiscal year | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and profit | |||||
| Revenue | $690M | $993M | $974M | $1.0B | $1.0B |
| Revenue growth | 49.4% | 44.1% | −2.0% | 4.2% | 2.8% |
| Operating margin | 52.0% | 65.8% | 59.6% | 53.3% | 47.8% |
| Net income | $1.1B | $559M | $576M | $505M | $495M |
| Net margin | 152.7% | 56.3% | 59.2% | 49.8% | 47.4% |
| Diluted EPS | $51.15 | $27.28 | $28.95 | $26.05 | $26.76 |
| Cash | |||||
| Cash from operations | $428M | $935M | $576M | $622M | $645M |
| Dividends paid | $30.9M | $61.5M | $60.7M | $62.8M | $63.6M |
| Share buybacks | — | $28.6M | $70.6M | $53.3M | $75.7M |
| Share count change | −13.5% | −0.4% | −2.9% | −2.6% | −4.7% |
| Debt and strength | |||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $129M | $268M | $358M | $514M | $1.2B |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $1.1B | $430M | $404M | $735M | $1.2B |
| Shareholders' equity | $2.1B | $2.6B | $3.0B | $3.4B | $3.8B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 2.1x | 0.2x | 0.1x | 0.3x | −0.0x |
| Current ratio | 2.0x | 1.6x | 3.0x | 4.0x | 3.3x |
| Interest coverage | 5.2x | 10.5x | 28.4x | 20.7x | — |
| Returns and quality | |||||
| Return on capital | 11.6% | 23.2% | 19.0% | 14.8% | 13.1% |
| Return on equity | 67.4% | 24.1% | 20.7% | 15.7% | 13.7% |
| Return on tangible equity | 50.4% | 21.8% | 19.1% | 14.7% | 13.0% |
| Piotroski F-score | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Altman Z'' | 3.9 | 6.6 | 8.7 | 7.6 | 6.9 |
Insiders bought, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Insiders sold, 12 months
$0.0M
0 insiders
Of sales under plans
—
$0.0M
How to read these numbers
- Revenue:
- Total sales reported in the income statement.
- Operating margin:
- Operating income as a share of revenue.
- Net income:
- Profit after all expenses, interest and tax.
- Free cash flow:
- Cash from operations minus capital spending.
- Net debt / EBITDA:
- Years of EBITDA needed to pay off net debt. Below zero means more cash than debt.
- Return on capital:
- After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
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Charts and comparison
Ten years at a glance, and how it stacks up against similar companies.
Revenue
Net income
Margins, % of revenue
Cash vs debt (incl. leases)
Free cash flow
Dividends and buybacks
KIRA
At $157.02 a share, the company is worth $2.9B: 5.9 times its earnings of the last four quarters.
Compiled and analysed by stoqly.net from SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0001369241). Latest version: stoqly.net/companies/dac. Data updated November 1, 2026. For information only — not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.