CCSIConsensus Cloud Solutions, Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.3×) and margins widening.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Operating profit is falling even as sales grow, costs are outrunning the top line.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is CCSI?
Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. earns 24% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 15 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 42%
Operating margin · Software - Infrastructure median 5.8% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.30×
Cash conversion · 1.11× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −1.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 59% |
| FY2021 | 50% |
| FY2022 | 42% |
| FY2023 | 41% |
| FY2024 | 43% |
| FY2025 | 43% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 80%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 42%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 27%
- Free cash flow margin
- 33%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 2.3%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $355M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $116M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $95M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 24%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Software, Infrastructure
Ranks #15 of 80 by RyuScore