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Financial profile · FY2026

A scale contract manufacturer pairing thin margins with recurring free cash flow

Jabil's manufacturing model scales revenue through thin operating margins while generating operating cash that has exceeded capital expenditures across the reported annual history. Equipment spending is modest relative to sales, but growth carries substantial working-capital needs; share repurchases have also reduced the share count.

What is developing

The latest year brought faster revenue growth, a broader improvement in operating margin, and increased cash generation. That expands the scale of Jabil's established model without yet changing its thin-margin, cash-generative character.

What matters next

Whether operating cash flow keeps pace with receivables and inventory as revenue scales.

USD
Metric FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022 FY2023 FY2024 FY2025 FY2026
19.1B 22.1B 25.3B 27.3B 29.3B 33.5B 34.7B 28.9B 29.8B
(17.5B) (20.4B) (23.4B) (25.2B) (26.9B) (30.8B) (31.8B) (26.2B) (27.2B) (32.6B)
1.5B 1.7B 1.9B 2B 2.4B 2.6B 2.9B 2.7B 2.6B 3.3B
(972.9m) (1.1B) (1.2B) (1.2B) (1.3B) (1.2B) (1.3B) (1.2B) (1.2B) (1.5B)
(907.7m) (1.1B) (1.1B) (1.1B) (1.2B) (1.2B) (1.2B) (1.2B) (1.1B) (1.4B)
R&D
(29.7m) (38.5m) (42.9m) (44.1m) (34m) (33m) (34m) (39m) (26m) (30m)
(35.5m) (38.5m) (31.9m) (55.5m) (47m) (34m) (33m) (40m) (62m) (89m)
572.7m 579.1m 727.3m 798.3m 1.1B 1.4B 1.6B 1.4B 1.4B
(125.5m) (131.2m) (167.3m) (159.3m) (122m) (146m) (206m) (173m) (193m) (296m)
138.1m 149m 188.7m 173.9m 130m 151m 206m 173m 147m 181m
(162.5m) (36.9m) (55.5m) (347.1m) (82m) (22m) (57m) 576m (254m) (132m)
(28.4m) (37.6m) (53.8m) (31.2m) 11m (12m) (69m) (89m) (97m) —
256.2m 373.4m 450.7m 260.7m 944m 1.2B 1.3B 1.8B 892m 1.4B
(129.1m) (143.6m) (174.5m) (204m) (246m) (235m) (444m) (363m) (235m) (368m)
127.2m 229.8m 276.2m 56.8m 698m 996m 818m 1.4B 657m 1B
1.9m (1.2m) (2.4m) (2.9m) (2m) 0 0 0 0 2m
129.1m 86.3m 287.1m 53.9m 696m 996m 818m 1.4B 657m
0.69 0.49 1.80 0.35 4.58 6.90 6.02 11.17 5.92