Healthcare / Medical Instruments & SuppliesUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Alcon Inc. has a live ticker hub with the latest available market, valuation, profitability, growth, ownership, and risk indicators.

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Fair value midpoint

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Fair value pending

Upside to midpoint

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Data quality and model convergence

Market cap

30.8B

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Market data

Live price

Current market quote for this ticker.

Current price

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Upcoming earnings date and setup when available.

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E16.9

P25 12.3P50 18.4P75 33.1

Trailing P/E37.7

P25 14.9P50 23.2P75 38.5

ROE3.7

P25 -105.6P50 -46.5P75 -3.1

ROIC4

P25 -63.1P50 -27.3P75 0.5

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Indicator catalog

All ALC market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

260

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Currency

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Showing 260 of 260 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0001167379
Company name	Alcon Inc.
Country	Switzerland
Country code	US
Cusip	H01301128
Employees	25,942
Employees Change	343%
Employees Change Percent	1.34
Enterprise value	$34.6B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
Industry	Medical Instruments & Supplies
Isin	CH0432492467
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$30.8B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$62.56
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	409,914.42x
Sector	Healthcare
Sic	3851
Symbol	ALC
Website	https://www.alcon.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	2.66%
EV Earnings	42.2x
EV Sales Forward	2.96x
EV/EBIT	27.94x
EV/EBITDA	15.26x
EV/FCF	19.99x
EV/Sales	3.25x
FCF yield	5.61%
Forward P/E	16.88x
P/B ratio	1.39x
P/E ratio	37.66x
P/S ratio	2.9x
PE Ratio3 Y	50.12x
PE Ratio5 Y	71.93x
PS Forward	2.64x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	11.63%
EBITDA Margin	21.3%
FCF margin	16.26%
Gross margin	55.78%
Gross Profit	$5.9B
Gross Profit Growth	7.54%
Gross Profit Growth Q	10.27%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	6.59%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	12.78%
Net Income	$819M
Net Income Growth	-26.88%
Net Income Growth Q	-46%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	33.92%
Pretax Margin	9.27%
Profit Margin	7.7%
Profit Per Employee	$31,570
Profitable Years	5
ROA	2.47
Roa5y	2.31
ROCE	4.32
ROE	3.71
Roe5y	3.57
ROIC	4
Roic5y	3.89

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr1y	-34.56%
Cagr3y	-5.01%
Cagr5y	-2.04%
Div CAGR3	14.99%
EPS Growth	-25.9
EPS Growth Q	-44.58
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	34.16
FCF Growth	4.6%
FCF Growth Q	0.36%
FCF Growth3 Y	42.15%
FCF Growth5 Y	30.78%
OCF Growth	8.73%
OCF Growth Q	8.85%
OCF Growth10 Y	1.06%
OCF Growth3 Y	23.09%
OCF Growth5 Y	19.42%
Revenue Growth	7.14x
Revenue Growth Q	9.42x
Revenue Growth Quarters	22x
Revenue Growth Years	5x
Revenue Growth3 Y	6.19x
Revenue Growth5 Y	8.97x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.34
Assets	$31.6B
Cash	$1.7B
Current Assets	$6.6B
Current Liabilities	$3B
Debt	$5.3B
Debt EBITDA	$2.23
Debt Equity	$0.24
Debt FCF	$3.04
Equity	$22.1B
Interest Coverage	5.98
Liabilities	$9.5B
Long Term Assets	$25B
Long Term Liabilities	$6.5B
Net Cash	$-3.6B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-11.68
Net Debt EBITDA	$1.59
Net Debt Equity	$0.16
Net Debt FCF	$2.08
Tangible Book Value	$4B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$8.19
WACC	7.39

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	2.2
Inventory Turnover	1.97
Net Working Capital	$2.6B
Quick ratio	1.22
Working Capital	$3.6B
Working Capital Turnover	$2.86

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	0.72%
Dividend Growth	7.61%
Dividend Growth Years	5%
Dividend per share	$0.23
Dividend Years	6
Dividend Yield	0.37%
Ex Div Date	2026-05-06
Last Dividend	$0.23
Payout Frequency	Annual
Payout Ratio	13.96%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
1Y total return	-34.55%
200-day SMA	78.81
3Y total return	-14.28%
50-day SMA	76.7
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	-9.8%
All Time High	101.1
All Time High Change	-38.12%
All Time High Date	2024-09-12
All Time Low	39.37
All Time Low Change	58.9%
All Time Low Date	2020-03-23
ATR	2.27
Beta	0.7
Ch YTD	-20.62
High	64.82
High52	97.14
High52 Date	2025-05-08
High52ch	-35.6%
Low	62.4
Low52	62.4
Low52 Date	2026-05-08
Low52ch	0.26%
Ma50ch	-18.44%
Premarket Change Percent	1.44
Premarket Price	$64.8
Premarket Volume	19,659
Price vs 200-day SMA	-20.62%
RSI	22.47
RSI Monthly	35.74
RSI Weekly	32.82
Sharpe ratio	-1.48x
Sortino ratio	-1.64
Total Return	1.1%
Tr YTD	-20.37
Tr1m	-15.96%
Tr1w	-15.3%
Tr3m	-20.39%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	12
Analyst Count Top	1
Analyst Price Target Top	$90
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.81
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	10.96
Earnings Revenue Estimate	2,704,898,552x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	10.36x
Operating Income	$1.2B
Operating Income Growth	-6.92
Operating Income Growth Q	-11.25
Operating Income Growth3 Y	11.68
Operating margin	11.63
Price target	$84.29
Price Target Change	$34.74
Price Target Change Top	$43.86

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	486,373,670%
Float Percent	99.73%
Net Borrowing	-95,000,000
Shares Insiders	0.17%
Shares Institutions	58.71%
Shares Out	487,700,000
Shares Qo Q	-0.43%
Shares Yo Y	-0.72%
Short Ratio	3.55
Short Shares	1.52

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$1.6B
Average Volume	2,048,171.95x
Bv Per Share	45.38
CAPEX	$-576M
Ch1m	-16.22
Ch1w	-15.56
Ch1y	-34.9
Ch3m	-20.64
Ch3y	-15.1
Ch5y	-10.83
Ch6m	-15.43
Change	-2.07%
Change From Open	-2.89
Close	63.88
Days Gap	0.85
Depreciation Amortization	1,028,000,000
Dollar Volume	283,866,250.2
Earnings Date	2026-05-05
Earnings Time	amc
EBIT	$1.2B
EBITDA	$2.3B
EPS	$1.67
F Score	7
FCF	$1.7B
FCF EV Yield	5x
FCF Per Share	$3.55
Financing CF	-1,156,000,000
Fiscal Year End	December
Founded	1,945
Goodwill	9,258,000,000
Graham Number	40.96512
Graham Upside	-34.52
Income Tax	$167M
Investing CF	-984,000,000
Is Primary Listing	0
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-05-05
Last Report Date	2026-03-31
Last Split Type	Never
Last10k Filing Date	2026-02-24
Lynch Fair Value	$41.53
Lynch Upside	-33.61
Ma150	77.85
Ma150ch	-19.64%
Ma20	75.02
Ma20ch	-16.61%
Net CF	166,000,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-08-18
Open	64.42
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	17.84
P OCF Ratio	13.38
Payment Date	2026-05-07
Position In Range	6.61
Post Close	62.56
Postmarket Change Percent	0.67
Postmarket Price	$62.98
Ppne	5,223,000,000
Pre Close	63.88
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$13.62
Ptbv Ratio	7.72
Relative Volume	2.22x
Revenue	10,634,000,000x
SBC By Revenue	1.58x
Share Based Comp	168,000,000
Tax By Revenue	1.57x
Tax Rate	16.94%
Tr6m	-15.16%
Volume	4,537,504

Fast facts

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Risk gate

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Moat score

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Business quality stays separate from stock attractiveness.

Forward P/E

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Valuation uses the full report model stack, not a single multiple.

Next action

Research pending

Final action steps are kept in the recommendation tab.

Income

ALC dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+0.4%

$0.23 annual per share

Payout ratio

+14.0%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

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5 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+1.1%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-05-06

Performance

ALC stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns ALC?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+58.7%

Float: +99.7% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.2%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

ALC momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

22.5

Below 30: short-term oversold

Price vs 200-day MA

-20.6%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.70

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

-1.48

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Questions

About ALC

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What is the current ALC stock rating?

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