Is the business good?
How good a business is CCJ?
Cameco Corporation earns 7.2% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
7.2%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.8 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 18%
Operating margin · Uranium median −91% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 1.82×
Cash conversion · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −0.09%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −4.4% |
| FY2021 | −9.2% |
| FY2022 | 0.81% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
| FY2024 | 16% |
| FY2025 | 18% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 28%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 18%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 17%
- Free cash flow margin
- 31%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 1.1%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.48B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.08B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $590M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 7.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.