Is the business good?
How good a business is CEPU?
Central Puerto S.A. earns 9.1% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
9.1%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.13 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 27%
Operating margin · Utilities - Regulated Electric median 22% · fiscal year to FY2024
- Cash conversion
- 2.33×
Cash conversion · 0.78× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- 0.00%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2019 | 78% |
| FY2020 | 73% |
| FY2021 | 45% |
| FY2022 | 61% |
| FY2023 | 108% |
| FY2024 | 27% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2024
- 40%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2024
- 27%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2024
- 6.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 16%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $738.2B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $115.7B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $49.6B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 9.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Utilities - Regulated Electric
Ranks #4 of 37 by Smart Score