Is the business good?
How good a business is CTOS?
Custom Truck One Source, Inc. earns 4.7% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
4.7%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.3 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 7.3%
Operating margin · Rental & Leasing Services median 7.9% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −0.72%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
- Gross margin
- 22%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 5.7% |
| FY2021 | −3.6% |
| FY2022 | 6.6% |
| FY2023 | 9.2% |
| FY2024 | 7.0% |
| FY2025 | 6.4% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 22%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 7.3%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- −0.88%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.98B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$17M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Rental & Leasing Services
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