BKDBrookdale Senior Living Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (2.7×).
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Margins have held roughly steady, a stable cost structure.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is BKD?
Brookdale Senior Living Inc. earns 2.2% 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% · 6.8 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 3.5%
Operating margin · Medical Care Facilities median 9.3% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.67×
Cash conversion · 5.26× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +3.9%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −2.8% |
| FY2021 | −7.9% |
| FY2022 | −1.5% |
| FY2023 | 0.61% |
| FY2024 | 1.5% |
| FY2025 | 0.42% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 27%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 3.5%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −4.5%
- Free cash flow margin
- 0.78%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.05B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $24M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$138M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 2.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Medical Care Facilities
Ranks #25 of 27 by RyuScore