CIGCompanhia Energética de Minas Gerais - CEMIG

$2.40+20% 1Y

Is the business good?

Mixed

The checks split: margins steady and returns not propped up by debt.

2 neutral, 2 without data
Margin direction, 3 yearsStable

Margins have held roughly steady, a stable cost structure.

Where ROE comes from12% ROA

Margin-driven, fat margins on slower asset turns. ROE 26% = margin × turnover × leverage.

All from derived.

Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.

How good a business is CIG?

Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais - CEMIG earns −0.07% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.

−0.07%

Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 9.1 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value

Operating margin
−0.08%

Operating margin · Utilities - Regulated Electric median 22% · fiscal year to FY2024

R&D as % of revenue
0.01%

R&D as % of revenue

Gross margin
20%

Gross margin

Operating margin by fiscal year
YearOperating margin
FY201912%
FY202015%
FY202120%
FY2022−8.1%
FY2023−5.0%
FY2024−0.08%
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Gross marginfiscal year to FY2024
20%
Operating marginfiscal year to FY2024
−0.08%
Net marginfiscal year to FY2024
18%
Free cash flow margin
12%
R&D as % of revenue
0.01%
Revenue, trailing twelve months
$39.8B
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
$4.83B
Net income, trailing twelve months
$7.12B
Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
−0.07%

Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.