Is the business good?
How good a business is AQN?
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. earns 3.1% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
3.1%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.9 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 20%
Operating margin · Utilities median 21% · 12 months to Q2 2025
- Cash conversion
- −0.57×
Cash conversion · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- +12%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 23% |
| FY2021 | 18% |
| FY2022 | 15% |
| FY2023 | 19% |
| FY2024 | 19% |
| FY2025 | 21% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2025
- 20%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2025
- 9.8%
- Free cash flow margin
- −5.5%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.38B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$132M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $233M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 3.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.