Is the business good?
How good a business is DAN?
Dana Incorporated earns 4.3% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
4.3%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.7 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 2.0%
Operating margin · Auto Parts median 8.5% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.13×
Cash conversion · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −25%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 1.8% |
| FY2021 | 4.4% |
| FY2022 | 0.85% |
| FY2023 | −1.4% |
| FY2024 | −2.3% |
| FY2025 | 1.8% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 8.6%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 2.0%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 15%
- Free cash flow margin
- 1.9%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $7.59B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $145M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.15B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.3%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.