CMRECostamare Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (1.5×).
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Negative operating leverage, costs are rising faster than sales, squeezing margins as it grows.
Margin-driven, fat margins on slower asset turns. ROE 17% = 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 CMRE?
Costamare Inc. earns 12% 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% · 2.8 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 52%
Operating margin · Marine Shipping median 26% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 1.49×
Cash conversion · 1.39× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 13% |
| FY2021 | 56% |
| FY2022 | 59% |
| FY2023 | 70% |
| FY2024 | 55% |
| FY2025 | 52% |
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- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 52%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 42%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $878M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $365M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.