CXWCoreCivic, Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.1×) and margins widening.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Profits are tracking sales roughly one-for-one, limited operating leverage either way.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 8% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is CXW?
CoreCivic, Inc. earns 7.2% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.8 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 9.9%
Operating margin · Security & Protection Services median 13% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.10×
Cash conversion · 1.88× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −9.0%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 8.5% |
| FY2021 | 10% |
| FY2022 | 9.2% |
| FY2023 | 8.9% |
| FY2024 | 9.4% |
| FY2025 | 9.9% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 9.9%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 5.1%
- Free cash flow margin
- 2.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.48B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $59M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $128M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 7.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Security & Protection Services
Ranks #6 of 10 by RyuScore