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Sotera Health Co

Health CareHealth Services
Ticker SHCBROADVIEW HEIGHTS, OHFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $2.54Diluted shares 288.3M

Sotera Health Company (Nasdaq: SHC) provides sterilization, laboratory testing and advisory services for medical, pharmaceutical, food and other industries. Its Sterigenics business sterilizes medical devices and pharmaceuticals, provides microbial reduction services for food and agricultural products, and serves… From the company’s description.

Over the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026, Sotera Health Co reported revenue of $1.23B, up 6.9% from a year earlier, and net income of $173.47M. Its operating margin was 32.7%, and operations generated $331.58M in cash. In fiscal 2025, it reported revenue of $1.16B, up 5.7% from fiscal 2024, and net income of $77.95M.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-09-30
Sales & profitability
$1.16BFY2025
+5.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $1.23B
25.53%FY2025
−1.5 percentage points
Last 12 mo 32.66%
$77.95MFY2025
+75.6% year over year
Last 12 mo $173.47M
12.86%FY2025
+1.9 percentage points
Last 12 mo 23.66%
Cash & financing
$287.19MFY2025
+28.1% year over year
Last 12 mo $331.58M
$149.18MFY2025
+230.8% year over year
Last 12 mo $135.43M
3.69FY2025
Was 5.73× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 3.06
286.4MFY2025
+0.5% year over year
Last 12 mo 288.3M

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 Sotera Health Co does

In the company’s own words

Sotera Health Company (Nasdaq: SHC) provides sterilization, laboratory testing and advisory services for medical, pharmaceutical, food and other industries. Its Sterigenics business sterilizes medical devices and pharmaceuticals, provides microbial reduction services for food and agricultural products, and serves advanced applications markets using gamma, ethylene oxide and electron-beam technologies. Nordion supplies cobalt-60 for sterilization and medical applications, and designs, installs and maintains gamma irradiation systems. Nelson Labs provides microbiological and analytical chemistry testing, technical assistance, regulatory consulting and advisory services for medical device and pharmaceutical products. The company serves customers in more than 50 countries, including medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, contract sterilizers and food producers. Its businesses are organized into sterilization services, comprising Sterigenics and Nordion, and lab testing and advisory services, comprising Nelson Labs. In 2025, the company operated 62 facilities worldwide and employed more than 3,000 people. Its website is https://investors.soterahealth.com.

Company details
Sector
Health Care
Industry (SIC)
Health Services
Headquarters
BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, OH
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1822479
SIC
8090

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2021–2025 · USD
$-379.90M$59.09M$498.09M$937.08M$1.38B20212022202320242025Last 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 Sotera Health Co — and what changed

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

280
funds hold it
1 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$1.37B
held by funds, at market
27.9%
of shares held by funds

Superinvestors in Sotera Health Co · what they did last quarter

David EinhornINCREASED +100.2%
DME Capital Management (Greenlight)
1.9%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · Sotera Health Co’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF
IJH · iShares Trust
0.13%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.06%of fund net assets
Janus Henderson Contrarian Fund
JSVAX · Janus Investment Fund
1.89%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP GROWTH INDEX FUND
VBK · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.14%of fund net assets

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

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”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

Could not be determined for this company: bond issues.

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

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