ACVAACV Auctions Inc.
Is the business good?
Margins widening. That is the only one of 4 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.
Operating margin has widened over the past few years, the business is getting more profitable per dollar of sales.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is ACVA?
ACV Auctions Inc. earns −30% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 39 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −7.1%
Operating margin · Auto & Truck Dealerships median 5.1% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +0.33%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −20% |
| FY2021 | −21% |
| FY2022 | −25% |
| FY2023 | −19% |
| FY2024 | −13% |
| FY2025 | −8.3% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −7.1%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −7.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- 3.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $801M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $29M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$63M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −30%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.