Company data sheet · Alcon
Alcon: three lost years, and the economy wasn't the reason.
- Industry
- Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing
- Headquarters
- United States
- Ticker
- ALC (NYSE)
- Sources
- SEC filings (2002–2026), Stratrix's verified Decision Cases, market data and official economic statistics for the United States
- Data as of
- October 18, 2026
- From profit to three straight losses. Alcon earned $0.3 billion in 2017–2017. Then it lost money every year from 2018 to 2020: $1.4 billion in all. 2021 was its first profit in four years: $0.4 billion.
- It wasn't the cycle. The losses began in 2018, a year the US economy grew 3.0% and factories added jobs. When a company falls while its economy grows, look inside the company first.
Financial results
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Net income | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $6.8 billion | $0.3 billion | |
| 2018 | $7.2 billion | −$0.2 billion | |
| 2019 | $7.5 billion | −$0.7 billion | |
| 2020 | $6.8 billion | −$0.5 billion | |
| 2021 | $8.3 billion | $0.4 billion | |
| 2022 | $8.7 billion | $0.3 billion | |
| 2023 | $9.5 billion | $1 billion | |
| 2024 | $9.9 billion | $1 billion | |
| 2025 | $10.4 billion | $1 billion |
As reported in its annual filings. Losses in red.
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- Economic context: 7 measures for the United States, every year since 2016, from the official sources.
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- Financial results: ten years of revenue, operating and net income, and every annual report, linked.
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