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Company snapshot — UL Solutions Inc.

ULS in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
UL Solutions provides testing, inspection and certification services, along with related software and advisory work. Its industrial arm checks equipment and materials for energy, automation, engineered materials and the built environment. Its consumer arm certifies safety and performance for electronics, medical devices, appliances and other connected products. The software and advisory arm sells ULTRUS, a platform that helps manufacturers track regulation, supply chains and sustainability. The company traces back to 1894, is based in Northbrook, Illinois, and operates as a subsidiary of ULSE Inc.; it listed on the market in 2024.
Where it sits in the stack
UL Solutions holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index; it belongs instead to the Industrials sleeve of the wider Closelook universe, grouped with other US industrial names the diary scores on a common basis rather than placed against any build-out layer.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other scored US industrials sharing its sector and country, among them Nordson, Cintas, Verisk Analytics, Applied Industrial Technologies and Sunbelt Rentals; the market more often names Intertek as its direct certification rival.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries no index seat but does hold a Closelook score, with cash quality its strongest module and momentum its weakest; the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the shares steady against their moving averages, since a quality-led score sits against a momentum reading that recent flow lists mark among the weaker names.

UL Solutions Inc. (ULS) trades on US exchanges, classified under Industrials.

The Closelook company score reads 52/100 composite (momentum 11, quality 70, valuation 38) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ULS, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Specialty Business Services · US · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Specialty Business Services · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against ULS on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.88%, quarterly · last 0.15 USD on 2026-08-31

Dividends and capital return

What ULS pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.57 USD per share · a 0.88% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +44.9% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.39 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.15 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-31
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.52 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.44 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-02-28
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 104 m USD 27% of earnings
  • Share count +1.0% in FY2025 47 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 104 m USD · 26% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Industrials in US: −1.5% week · −6.7% month · −5.9% quarter · −3.0% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLI.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is UL Solutions Inc. (ULS)?

UL Solutions Inc. trades as ULS on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Industrials in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is ULS in a Closelook index?

Not currently — UL Solutions Inc. is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is UL Solutions Inc.'s Closelook composite score?

52 out of 100, with momentum 11, quality 70 and valuation 38 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does ULS trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -18.7% vs the 50-day and -23.6% vs the 200-day average, 40.3% below the 52-week high and +1.4% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 14 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does UL Solutions Inc. do?

UL Solutions provides testing, inspection and certification services, along with related software and advisory work. Its industrial arm checks equipment and materials for energy, automation, engineered materials and the built environment. Its consumer arm certifies safety and performance for electronics, medical devices, appliances and other connected products. Closelook's peer group places it with other scored US industrials sharing its sector and country, among them Nordson, Cintas, Verisk Analytics, Applied Industrial Technologies and Sunbelt Rentals; the market more often names Intertek as its direct certification rival.

Where does UL Solutions Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

UL Solutions holds no seat in Rubin, the diary's AI build-out index; it belongs instead to the Industrials sleeve of the wider Closelook universe, grouped with other US industrial names the diary scores on a common basis rather than placed against any build-out layer. It carries no index seat but does hold a Closelook score, with cash quality its strongest module and momentum its weakest; the diary has not yet quoted it in an edition.

Does UL Solutions Inc. pay a dividend?

UL Solutions Inc. has paid 0.57 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 0.88% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.15 USD on 2026-08-31. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 104 m USD in dividends, 26% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 1.0% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ULS, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Specialty Business Services, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.