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Edwards Lifesciences EW Return on equity

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.6B+16.7%
Gross profit$1.3B+15.7%
Operating income$477.6M+21.0%
Net income$380.7M+6.3%
EPS (diluted)$0.66+8.2%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$2.4B-22.3%
Total debt$702.9M+0.5%
Total equity$10.3B+2.0%
Total assets$13.3B+2.3%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$43.8M-84.4%
CapEx$64.9M+15.9%
Free cash flow-$21.1M-109%

Valuation

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Market cap$49.91B+8.7%
Enterprise value$48.17B+11.0%
P/E45.5×+34.6×
P/S7.9×-0.4×

Profitability

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Gross margin77.9%-1.6pp
Operating margin21.4%-4.4pp
Net margin17.4%-58.3pp

Returns & leverage

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Debt / equity0.1×0.0×
Current ratio4.4×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Edwards Lifesciences’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Edwards Lifesciences’s 10-Q, filed May 6, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Edwards Lifesciences's return on equity?
Edwards Lifesciences (EW) reported return on equity of 10.7% in Q1 2026.
How has Edwards Lifesciences's return on equity changed year-over-year?
Edwards Lifesciences's return on equity decreased by 77.9% year-over-year, from 48.5% to 10.7%.
What is the long-term trend for Edwards Lifesciences's return on equity?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Edwards Lifesciences's return on equity has grown at a 1.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 111.7% to 119%.
What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.