Is the business good?
How good a business is BCC?
Boise Cascade Company earns 5.8% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
5.8%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.2 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 2.5%
Operating margin · Basic Materials median 13% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −6.8%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 17%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 6.1% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 14% |
| FY2023 | 9.1% |
| FY2024 | 7.3% |
| FY2025 | 2.9% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 17%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 2.5%
- Free cash flow margin
- 1.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $6.46B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $103M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 5.8%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Basic Materials
Ranks #119 of 140 by Smart Score