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DELUXE CORP

Communication ServicesPublishing
Ticker DLXMINNEAPOLIS, MNFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $15.28Diluted shares 46.3M

Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DPL) operates as a trusted Payments and Data company serving small and medium-sized businesses, financial institutions, and major consumer brands across North America. The company maintains its website at www.deluxe.com and celebrated its 110th anniversary in 2025, having evolved from its… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$2.13B
+0.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $2.11B
10.89%
+1.8 percentage points
Last 12 mo 11.88%
$82.20M
+55.3% year over year
Last 12 mo $100.73M
12.69%
+3.7 percentage points
Last 12 mo 14.22%
Cash & financing
$270.60M
+39.3% year over year
Last 12 mo $303.13M
$175.30M
+75.5% year over year
Last 12 mo $209.09M
2.10
Was 2.42× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 2.02
45.5M
+1.7% year over year
Last 12 mo 46.3M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What DELUXE CORP does

In the company’s own words

Deluxe Corporation (NYSE: DPL) operates as a trusted Payments and Data company serving small and medium-sized businesses, financial institutions, and major consumer brands across North America. The company maintains its website at www.deluxe.com and celebrated its 110th anniversary in 2025, having evolved from its traditional roots as a check printing company into a diversified payments and data solutions provider.

The company operates through four primary business segments. Merchant Services, representing 18.7% of consolidated revenue, provides in-store, online, and mobile payment solutions enabling businesses to accept electronic payments including debit cards, credit cards, and other payment forms. B2B Payments accounts for 13.6% of revenue and delivers treasury management solutions encompassing automated receivables technology, lockbox processing, remote deposit capture, and payment acceptance solutions. Data Solutions contributes 14.4% of revenue through data-driven marketing services and analytics that help clients acquire and cross-sell customers through targeted campaigns. The Print segment generates 53.3% of revenue, including checks at 32.4%, business forms and products at 10.5%, and promotional solutions at 10.4%.

As of December 31, 2025, Deluxe employed 4,571 people, with 4,376 based in the United States, 182 in Canada, and 13 in India. The company maintains a geographically diversified operational footprint supporting its North American customer base.

Deluxe's competitive advantages include ownership of substantial proprietary technology infrastructure, including payment gateways, onboarding systems, and risk management platforms. The company leverages strong customer relationships and brand equity accumulated over more than a century of operations, particularly within financial institutions. Its strategy focuses on deploying cash flows generated from the stable Print business to fund growth investments in Payments and Data Solutions while maintaining operational efficiency through lean principles, automation, and shared services models. Recent strategic actions included exiting web hosting and logo design businesses in 2023 and substantially completing the transition of payroll and human resources customers during 2024, allowing the company to concentrate resources on higher-growth segments.

Company details
Sector
Communication Services
Industry
Publishing
Headquarters
MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
27996
SIC
2780

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-469.96M$268.58M$1.01B$1.75B$2.48B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns DELUXE CORP — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

267
funds hold it
0 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$543.23M
held by funds, at market
45.6%
of shares held by funds
2
bond issues held by funds

Largest fund holders · DELUXE CORP’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.06%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.00%of fund net assets
iShares Russell 2000 ETF
IWM · iShares Trust
0.03%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
U.S. SMALL CAP VALUE PORTFOLIO
DFSVX · DFA INVESTMENT DIMENSIONS GROUP INC
0.10%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

DELUXE CORP’s bonds, as funds hold them

Funds report holding 2 issues of DELUXE CORP’s debt, $295.40M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 8.07%, maturing 2029 to 2029.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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