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Gilead Sciences GILD Return on assets

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$7.0B+4.4%
Gross profit$5.5B+7.6%
Operating income$2.6B+15.6%
Net income$2.0B+53.7%
EPS (diluted)$1.61+54.8%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$7.6B-3.8%
Total debt$22.2B-11.1%
Total equity$23.5B+22.7%
Total assets$56.3B-0.3%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$2.5B+44.8%
CapEx$117.0M+12.5%
Free cash flow$2.4B+46.8%

Valuation

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Market cap$153.66B+23.8%
Enterprise value$168.2B+19.7%
P/E16.7×-4.1×
P/S5.2×+0.8×

Profitability

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Gross margin79.4%+1.1pp
Operating margin34.9%+6.3pp
Net margin31%+10.2pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity43.2%+10.7pp
Debt / equity0.9×-0.4×
Current ratio+0.6×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Gilead Sciences’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Gilead Sciences’s 10-Q, filed May 7, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Gilead Sciences's return on assets?
Gilead Sciences (GILD) reported return on assets of 16.4% in Q1 2026.
How has Gilead Sciences's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Gilead Sciences's return on assets increased by 54.5% year-over-year, from 10.6% to 16.4%.
What is the long-term trend for Gilead Sciences's return on assets?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Gilead Sciences's return on assets has grown at a 14.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 29.5% to 50.9%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.