Alcon (ALC) Tax Rate (2009 - 2025)
Alcon (ALC) reported Tax Rate of -100.00% for Q2 2026, down 88.44 percentage points from -11.56% a year earlier and down 78.75 percentage points from the prior quarter.
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Alcon (ALC) Tax Rate (2009 - 2025) Analysis & Trends
Over the twelve months ended Jun 30, 2026, Alcon's Tax Rate came in at -11.42%, up 4.12 percentage points year-over-year; for FY2025, it was -15.52%, up 3.43 percentage points from FY2024.
- Tax Rate has a five-year change of +0.86 percentage points (FY2020 to FY2025).
- By year, Tax Rate came in at -18.95% in FY2024 (-36.02 pp), 17.07% in FY2023 (+44.71 pp), -27.65% in FY2022 (-17.60 pp) and -10.05% in FY2021 (+6.33 pp).
- The Q2 2026 figure ranks as the lowest quarterly Tax Rate since Q3 2021.
- Year over year, Tax Rate gained in three of the last five quarters, with an average year-over-year change of -49.45 percentage points.
- The high point for year-over-year Tax Rate in five years was Q4 2022 (a gain of 214.32 percentage points); the low point was Q4 2024 (a drop of 172.79 percentage points).
Peer Set
Peer Comparison
| # | Company | Market Cap | Enterprise Value | Gross Profit (Qtr) | Tax Rate (Qtr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | 257.99 Bn | 237.02 Bn | 4.88 Bn | 8.68% |
| 2 | Abbott Laboratories | 175.01 Bn | 145.44 Bn | 7.27 Bn | 39.11% |
| 3 | Danaher | 164.93 Bn | 148.74 Bn | 3.61 Bn | 19.29% |
| 4 | Intuitive Surgical | 151.84 Bn | 131.26 Bn | 1.96 Bn | 21.94% |
| 5 | Medtronic | 119.05 Bn | 84.30 Bn | 6.34 Bn | 16.34% |
| 6 | Stryker | 113.89 Bn | 100.00 Bn | 4.50 Bn | 18.41% |
| 7 | Boston Scientific | 65.37 Bn | 60.13 Bn | 3.85 Bn | 14.62% |
| 8 | Becton Dickinson | 53.36 Bn | 50.51 Bn | 2.32 Bn | 18.41% |
| 9 | Edwards Lifesciences | 50.83 Bn | 34.83 Bn | 1.35 Bn | 53.56% |
| 10 | Alcon | 33.27 Bn | 24.24 Bn | 1.68 Bn | - |
Historic Data
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Historic Data
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2025 | 11.56% |
| Jun 30, 2024 | 20.36% |
| Dec 31, 2023 | 154.17% |
| Jun 30, 2023 | 20.66% |
| Jun 30, 2021 | 20.94% |
| Jun 30, 2018 | 37.50% |
| Dec 31, 2010 | 10.33% |
| Sep 30, 2010 | 11.16% |
| Jun 30, 2010 | 12.76% |
| Mar 31, 2010 | 15.24% |
| Dec 31, 2009 | 17.33% |
| Sep 30, 2009 | 13.30% |
| Jun 30, 2009 | 10.60% |
| Mar 31, 2009 | 12.06% |
API Access
Alcon Tax Rate API
Pull this series into your own models, spreadsheets and apps with the Business Quant
Historical Metrics API. The request below matches the chart above — change the
frequency, period or values and it follows. Swap YOUR_API_KEY for your own key.
https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=tax-rate&ticker=ALC&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEYimport requests
url = "https://data.businessquant.com/historic"
params = {"slug": "tax-rate", "ticker": "ALC", "period": "max", "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}
data = requests.get(url, params=params).json()const res = await fetch("https://data.businessquant.com/historic?slug=tax-rate&ticker=ALC&period=max&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY");
const data = await res.json();