Is the business good?
How good a business is ALSN?
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc. earns 11% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
11%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.2 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 23%
Operating margin · Auto Parts median 8.5% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.12×
Cash conversion · 0.86× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −2.3%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 26% |
| FY2021 | 28% |
| FY2022 | 28% |
| FY2023 | 30% |
| FY2024 | 31% |
| FY2025 | 29% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 41%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 23%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 15%
- Free cash flow margin
- 17%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 5.1%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.65B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $609M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $543M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 11%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.