Johnson Controls
JCI NYSE Building Products Financials FY2016βFY2025
Johnson Controls' revenue rose 2.8% to $23.6 billion in fiscal 2025. Its net margin was 13.9%, up from 7.4% a year earlier. Free cash flow was $2.1 billion, up 97.4%. It paid out $7.0 billion in dividends and buybacks, 329% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 3.2%.
What Johnson Controls does
Johnson Controls, headquartered in Cork, Ireland, makes, installs and services equipment that heats, cools, secures and protects commercial buildings. Its products include commercial heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment, industrial refrigeration, building controls, security systems and fire detection and suppression systems. Customers include owners of offices, data centers, hospitals, schools and government buildings. Its brands include York, Metasys and Simplex.
The company sells mainly through its own sales and service offices, and also through distributors. In fiscal 2025 products and systems were about 68% of sales from continuing operations and services were 32%. Services include maintenance, repair and replacement of equipment, plus energy consulting and an OpenBlue software platform for managing buildings. It has three regional segments: Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Asia Pacific).
On July 31, 2025 it sold its residential and light commercial HVAC business to Bosch. It names Honeywell, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Carrier, Trane and Daikin among its larger competitors.
- Legal name
- JOHNSON CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL PLC
- Fiscal year ends
- September 30, 2025
- Latest annual report
- 10-K Β· Nov 14, 2025
- Accession Β· CIK
- 0000833444-25-000097
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Revenue and margins
Johnson Controls had $23.6B of revenue in fiscal 2025, up 2.8% on the year before.
Net income and earnings per share
Loss periods are shown in red.
Returns on capital
After-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash.
Cash flow
Free cash flow was $2.1B in fiscal 2025, 9.0% of revenue. Cash from operations minus capital spending.
Dividends, buybacks and share count
Johnson Controls returned $7.0B to shareholders in fiscal 2025, 329% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 3.2%.
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Discounted cash flow
Value per share
β
Adds net cash of β$9.5B and divides by 654.1M diluted shares. Ten years of cash flows plus a terminal value, discounted to today.
Earnings multiple
Value per share
β
Reference multiples: today 26.0x Β· peers 33.7x Β· sector 26.0x.
Balance sheet
Cash, debt and the ratios that show how comfortably Johnson Controls can carry it.
| Fiscal year end | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and short-term investments | $1.3B | $2.0B | $828M | $606M | $379M |
| Debt incl. finance leases | $7.8B | $9.0B | $8.8B | $9.5B | $9.9B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 1.8x | 3.4x | 3.7x | 3.3x | 3.0x |
| Debt / equity | 0.4x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.6x | 0.8x |
| Interest coverage | 12.9x | 5.9x | 4.9x | 5.2x | 7.1x |
| Current ratio | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.9x |
| Quick ratio | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.8x |
| Total assets | $41.9B | $42.2B | $42.2B | $42.7B | $37.9B |
| Total liabilities | $23.1B | $24.8B | $24.5B | $25.3B | $25.0B |
| Shareholders' equity | $17.6B | $16.3B | $16.5B | $16.1B | $12.9B |
| Net debt (β = net cash) | $6.4B | $7.0B | $8.0B | $8.9B | $9.5B |
Insider trades
Open-market purchases and sales by officers, directors and 10% owners, from Form 4 filings. 'Plan' marks trades under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan.
Bought, 12 months
$1.0M
1 insider
Sold, 12 months
$26.2M
5 insiders
Of sales under plans
0%
$0.0M
| Date | Insider | Trade | Shares | Price | Value | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2026 | Pierre E CohadeDirector | Sold | 3,300 | $147.79 | $0.5M | Form 4 |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Lei Zhang SchlitzVP & Pres, GP & Solutions | Sold | 23,417 | $153.07 | $3.6M | Form 4 |
| Jun 9, 2026 | Todd M GrabowskiVP and President, Americas | Sold | 1,800 | $146.20 | $0.3M | Form 4 |
| May 14, 2026 | Todd M GrabowskiVP and President, Americas | Sold | 4,274 | $145.50 | $0.6M | Form 4 |
| May 8, 2026 | Lei Zhang SchlitzVP & Pres, GP & Solutions | Sold | 88,809 | $140.99 | $12.5M | Form 4 |
| Feb 23, 2026 | Daniel C McConeghyVP Chief Accounting & Tax Ofcr | Sold | 3,600 | $142.56 | $0.5M | Form 4 |
| Feb 6, 2026 | Todd M GrabowskiVP and President, Americas | Sold | 6,050 | $134.90 | $0.8M | Form 4 |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Mark VergnanoDirector | Bought | 7,665 | $131.94 | $1.0M | Form 4 |
| Dec 10, 2025 | John DonofrioExec VP & General Counsel | Sold | 21,595 | $116.00 | $2.5M | Form 4 |
| Nov 21, 2025 | Lei Zhang SchlitzVP & Pres, Global Products | Sold | 32,031 | $113.20 | $3.6M | Form 4 |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Lei Zhang SchlitzVP & Pres, Global Products | Sold | 10,500 | $122.03 | $1.3M | Form 4 |
Piotroski F-score
Nine pass/fail tests of profitability, funding and efficiency. 8β9 is strong, 0β2 weak.
| Test | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net income is positive | β | β | β |
| Cash from operations is positive | β | β | β |
| Return on assets rose | β | β | β |
| Cash from operations exceeds net income | β | β | β |
| Debt fell relative to assets | β | β | β |
| Current ratio rose | β | β | β |
| Share count didn't rise | β | β | β |
| Gross margin rose | β | β | β |
| Revenue rose relative to assets | β | β | β |
| F-score | 8 / 9 | 5 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
| Accruals ratio | β0.0% | 0.3% | 1.8% |
| Altman Z'' | 1.03 | 0.96 | 0.82 |
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| Company | Market cap | Growth | Op. margin | FCF margin | ROIC | P/E | F-score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson Controls JCI | $88.4B | 2.8% | β | 9.0% | 8.2% | 26.0x | 6 | |
| Carrier Global CARR | $47.4B | β3.3% | 10.0% | 9.8% | 8.0% | 36.8x | 5 | Compare β |
| Trane Technologies TT | $99.0B | 7.5% | 18.6% | 13.2% | 29.0% | 33.7x | 8 | Compare β |
| Owens Corning OC | $9.2B | 2.6% | 3.6% | 9.5% | 1.9% | β | 4 | Compare β |
| Masco MAS | $15.5B | β3.4% | 16.5% | 11.5% | 40.4% | 18.9x | 7 | Compare β |
10 years of figures
US$ millions unless stated. Hover a ratio's name for its definition.
| Fiscal year | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||||||
| Revenue | $20.8B | $22.8B | $23.4B | $24.0B | $22.3B | $23.7B | $20.6B | $22.3B | $23.0B | $23.6B |
| Gross profit | $5.7B | $7.5B | $7.7B | $7.7B | $7.4B | $8.1B | $7.1B | $7.8B | $8.1B | $8.6B |
| Research and development | $158M | $307M | $310M | $319M | $274M | $275M | $236M | $251M | $267M | $273M |
| Interest expense | $293M | $446M | $409M | $335M | $240M | $219M | $225M | $288M | $361M | $321M |
| Pretax income | $1.1B | $1.2B | $1.5B | $1.1B | $903M | $2.6B | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1.5B | $2.0B |
| Income tax | $197M | $322M | $197M | β$233M | $108M | $868M | β$182M | β$468M | $111M | $245M |
| Net income | β$868M | $1.6B | $2.2B | $5.7B | $631M | $1.6B | $1.5B | $1.8B | $1.7B | $3.3B |
| Diluted EPS | β$1.29 | $1.71 | $2.32 | $6.49 | $0.84 | $2.27 | $2.19 | $2.69 | $2.52 | $5.03 |
| Diluted shares | 0.67B | 0.94B | 0.93B | 0.87B | 0.75B | 0.72B | 0.70B | 0.69B | 0.68B | 0.65B |
| Cash flow | ||||||||||
| Cash from operations | $1.9B | $371M | $1.5B | $1.7B | $2.5B | $2.6B | $1.2B | $1.9B | $1.6B | $2.6B |
| Capital expenditure | $1.2B | $760M | $645M | $586M | $443M | $552M | $487M | $446M | $494M | $434M |
| Free cash flow | $659M | β$389M | $875M | $1.2B | $2.0B | $2.0B | $750M | $1.4B | $1.1B | $2.1B |
| Depreciation and amortization | $953M | $919M | $824M | $825M | $822M | $845M | $717M | $745M | $816M | $865M |
| Stock-based compensation | $142M | $134M | $106M | $95.0M | $74.0M | $76.0M | $98.0M | $107M | $107M | $140M |
| Acquisitions | $353M | $6.0M | $21.0M | $25.0M | $77.0M | $725M | $269M | $726M | $3.0M | $10.0M |
| Share buybacks | $501M | $651M | $300M | $6.0B | $2.2B | $1.3B | $1.4B | $625M | $1.2B | $6.0B |
| Dividends paid | $915M | $702M | $954M | $920M | $790M | $762M | $916M | $980M | $1.0B | $976M |
| Dividends and buybacks | $1.4B | $1.4B | $1.3B | $6.9B | $3.0B | $2.1B | $2.4B | $1.6B | $2.2B | $7.0B |
| Balance sheet | ||||||||||
| Cash and short-term investments | $579M | $301M | $185M | $2.8B | $2.0B | $1.3B | $2.0B | $828M | $606M | $379M |
| Total debt | $16.3B | $13.6B | $11.0B | $7.3B | $7.9B | $7.8B | $9.0B | $8.8B | $9.5B | $9.9B |
| Finance lease liabilities | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M |
| Current assets | $17.1B | $12.3B | $11.8B | $12.4B | $10.1B | $10.0B | $11.7B | $10.7B | $11.2B | $10.2B |
| Current liabilities | $16.3B | $11.9B | $11.3B | $9.1B | $8.2B | $9.1B | $11.2B | $11.1B | $12.0B | $10.9B |
| Inventory | $2.9B | $3.2B | $1.8B | $1.8B | $1.8B | $2.1B | $2.7B | $1.9B | $1.8B | $1.8B |
| Property and equipment, net | $5.6B | $3.3B | $3.3B | $3.3B | $3.1B | $3.2B | $2.3B | $2.4B | $2.4B | $2.2B |
| Total assets | $63.2B | $51.9B | $48.8B | $42.3B | $40.8B | $41.9B | $42.2B | $42.2B | $42.7B | $37.9B |
| Total liabilities | $38.1B | $30.5B | $26.3B | $21.5B | $22.3B | $23.1B | $24.8B | $24.5B | $25.3B | $25.0B |
| Shareholders' equity | $24.1B | $20.4B | $21.2B | $19.8B | $17.4B | $17.6B | $16.3B | $16.5B | $16.1B | $12.9B |
| Margins | ||||||||||
| Gross margin | 27.1% | 33.0% | 32.8% | 32.1% | 33.2% | 34.1% | 34.4% | 35.0% | 35.2% | 36.4% |
| EBITDA margin | 11.1% | 11.0% | 11.9% | 9.3% | 8.8% | 15.5% | 10.0% | 9.6% | 11.8% | 13.4% |
| Net margin | β4.2% | 7.1% | 9.2% | 23.7% | 2.8% | 6.9% | 7.4% | 8.3% | 7.4% | 14.0% |
| FCF margin | 3.2% | β1.7% | 3.7% | 4.8% | 9.1% | 8.5% | 3.6% | 6.3% | 4.7% | 9.0% |
| Returns | ||||||||||
| Return on capital | 4.7% | 3.1% | 5.0% | 4.8% | 4.1% | 7.6% | 5.4% | 5.6% | 6.7% | 8.2% |
| Return on capital employed | 4.9% | 3.7% | 5.0% | 3.9% | 3.5% | 8.7% | 4.2% | 4.5% | 6.1% | 7.9% |
| Return on equity | β6.2% | 7.2% | 10.4% | 27.7% | 3.4% | 9.4% | 9.1% | 11.3% | 10.5% | 22.7% |
| Return on assets | β2.3% | 2.8% | 4.3% | 12.5% | 1.5% | 4.0% | 3.7% | 4.4% | 4.0% | 8.2% |
| Growth | ||||||||||
| Revenue growth | 110.4% | 9.6% | 2.5% | 2.4% | β6.9% | 6.1% | β12.8% | 8.2% | 2.8% | 2.8% |
| Net income growth | β257.5% | β | 34.2% | 162.4% | β88.9% | 159.4% | β6.4% | 20.7% | β7.8% | 93.0% |
| EPS growth | β200.0% | β | 35.7% | 179.7% | β87.1% | 170.2% | β3.5% | 22.8% | β6.3% | 99.6% |
| FCF growth | 122.6% | β159.0% | β | 32.2% | 76.0% | β1.8% | β62.5% | 88.0% | β23.8% | 97.4% |
| Share count change | 57.5% | 40.4% | β1.4% | β6.2% | β13.8% | β4.3% | β3.0% | β1.7% | β1.7% | β3.2% |
| Financial health | ||||||||||
| Net debt / EBITDA | 6.8x | 5.3x | 3.9x | 2.0x | 3.0x | 1.8x | 3.4x | 3.7x | 3.3x | 3.0x |
| Debt / equity | 0.7x | 0.7x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.5x | 0.4x | 0.6x | 0.5x | 0.6x | 0.8x |
| Interest coverage | 4.6x | 3.6x | 4.8x | 4.2x | 4.8x | 12.9x | 5.9x | 4.9x | 5.2x | 7.1x |
| Current ratio | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.1x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 1.0x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.9x |
| Quick ratio | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.9x | 1.2x | 1.0x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.8x |
| Capital allocation | ||||||||||
| Capex / revenue | 6.0% | 3.3% | 2.8% | 2.4% | 2.0% | 2.3% | 2.4% | 2.0% | 2.2% | 1.8% |
| Stock comp / revenue | 0.7% | 0.6% | 0.5% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.6% |
| Payouts / FCF | 214.9% | β | 143.3% | 596.6% | 147.1% | 103.5% | 314.3% | 113.8% | 209.1% | 328.6% |
| Quality scores | ||||||||||
| Piotroski F-score | 3.0 | 5.0 | 7.0 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 8.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 |
| Altman Z'' | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
| Accruals ratio | β7.4% | 2.2% | 1.3% | 8.6% | β4.5% | β2.2% | 0.7% | β0.0% | 0.3% | 1.8% |
Source: SEC EDGAR XBRL filings (CIK 0000833444). Data updated October 9, 2026. Quarterly fourth quarters are the full year minus the first nine months. For information only β not investment advice. Check the original filings before relying on any figure.