Is the business good?
How good a business is CSW?
CSW Industrials, Inc. earns 7.1% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
7.1%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.9 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 16%
Operating margin · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 15% · 12 months to Q4 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.18×
Cash conversion · 1.11× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Gross margin
- 42%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 14% |
| FY2022 | 16% |
| FY2023 | 18% |
| FY2024 | 20% |
| FY2025 | 21% |
| FY2026 | 16% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 42%
- Operating margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 16%
- Net margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 10%
- Free cash flow margin
- 12%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.08B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $132M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $112M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 7.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #34 of 44 by Smart Score