CLMBClimb Global Solutions, Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (2.1×).
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.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 18% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, 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 CLMB?
Climb Global Solutions, Inc. earns 32% 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% · 23 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 3.9%
Operating margin · Electronics & Computer Distribution median 3.4% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.06×
Cash conversion · 0.74× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +1.2%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 2.1% |
| FY2021 | 4.3% |
| FY2022 | 5.7% |
| FY2023 | 4.7% |
| FY2024 | 6.0% |
| FY2025 | 4.5% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 16%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 3.9%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 2.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- 5.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $712M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $41M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $21M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 32%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Electronics & Computer Distribution
Ranks #1 of 7 by RyuScore