DSV (DSV) Stock Price, Fundamentals & Analysis

What DSV does

DSV is a Danish freight forwarding and logistics company headquartered in Hedehusene, Denmark, and listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen, where it trades under the symbol DSV. Incorporated in 1976 and formerly known as DSV Panalpina A/S, it changed its name to DSV A/S in September 2021.

The company operates through three segments: Air & Sea, Road, and Solutions. Its services span air freight, charter and sea-air freight, sea freight (including less-than-container load and break bulk), road freight such as full load, part load and groupage, plus warehousing, e-commerce fulfilment, contract logistics and supply chain solutions. It also offers freight management, customs clearance, insurance and decarbonising logistics services.

DSV serves customers across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and the Pacific, working with industries including automotive, technology, healthcare, energy, defence, aerospace and chemicals. With 147,222 employees, it sits in the Industrials sector within the Integrated Freight & Logistics industry. It is one of the large Danish names on Nasdaq Copenhagen, alongside peers such as A.P. Møller-Mærsk (class B) (MAERSK-B) and Vestas Wind Systems (VWS).

Key numbers explained

• The share price is 1,215.5 DKK, up +2.83% today, with a 52-week range of 1,174.5 – 1,913.5 and a -7.5% change over the last 52 weeks.
• The P/E ratio — the price divided by earnings per share, a common way to gauge how expensive a stock is relative to its profits — is 40.3 on trailing earnings, but 14.7 on expected earnings, a large gap worth noting.
• Earnings per share over the trailing 12 months is 30.14 DKK.
• The dividend yield — annual dividends as a percentage of the share price — is 0.58%, with 23% of earnings paid out as dividends and an ex-dividend date of Mar 20, 2026.
• Revenue over the trailing 12 months is 290.77B DKK, growing 23.7% year over year.
• Margins are modest: a 2.4% profit margin, 8.2% operating margin and 6.3% return on equity.
• The debt-to-equity ratio of 75.8% indicates how much the company finances itself with debt relative to shareholders' equity.
• Market capitalisation is 290.23B DKK, with a price-to-book ratio of 2.31 and a beta of 0.96, meaning the stock has historically moved roughly in line with the broader market.

What to watch

As a freight and logistics company, DSV's results tend to follow global trade volumes, shipping and air freight rates, and fuel costs. The wide gap between its trailing P/E ratio of 40.3 and forward P/E ratio of 14.7 means reported earnings and expected earnings differ significantly, so upcoming results matter. The next earnings date is Oct 21, 2026. Margin levels — currently a 2.4% profit margin in a typically thin-margin industry — and the 75.8% debt-to-equity ratio are also relevant to how the business absorbs downturns. As a constituent of the OMXC25, its share price also moves with broader Danish market sentiment, and it is often compared with other Danish industrials such as FLSmidth & Co. (FLS) and ISS (ISS).