STERIS Future pension and postretirement benefit obligations increased by 2.6% to $3.90M in Q4 2025 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric grew by 23.2%, from $3.17M to $3.90M. Over 4 years (FY 2021 to FY 2025), Future pension and postretirement benefit obligations shows a downward trend with a -3.1% CAGR. This increase may warrant attention — for this metric, lower values are generally preferred.
An increase indicates a growing unfunded pension liability, which may require future cash contributions, while a decrease suggests improved funding status.
This represents the long-term actuarial obligation for defined benefit pension plans that exceed the fair value of plan...
Highly dependent on discount rates and actuarial assumptions, making it comparable across companies with legacy pension plans.
other_defined_benefit_pension_plan_liabilities_noncurrent| Q2 '21 | Q3 '21 | Q4 '21 | Q1 '22 | Q2 '22 | Q3 '22 | Q4 '22 | Q1 '23 | Q2 '23 | Q3 '23 | Q4 '23 | Q1 '24 | Q2 '24 | Q3 '24 | Q4 '24 | Q1 '25 | Q2 '25 | Q3 '25 | Q4 '25 | |
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| Value | $4.02M | $2.58M | $1.21M | $1.77M | $3.60M | $3.52M | $3.84M | $2.88M | $2.98M | $2.99M | $3.21M | $2.73M | $3.02M | $3.26M | $3.17M | $3.30M | $3.70M | $3.80M | $3.90M |
| QoQ Change | — | -35.7% | -53.1% | +46.3% | +103.2% | -2.2% | +8.9% | -25.0% | +3.5% | +0.4% | +7.5% | -15.2% | +10.9% | +7.9% | -2.9% | +4.2% | +12.1% | +2.7% | +2.6% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | -10.4% | +36.4% | +216.8% | +62.3% | -17.3% | -15.2% | -16.2% | -5.2% | +1.5% | +9.1% | -1.5% | +21.0% | +22.4% | +16.5% | +23.2% |