Is the business good?
How good a business is DCH?
Dauch Corporation earns 0.49% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
0.49%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 8.5 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 0.53%
Operating margin · Auto Parts median 8.5% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +64%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
- Gross margin
- 11%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −8.4% |
| FY2021 | 4.7% |
| FY2022 | 4.2% |
| FY2023 | 2.4% |
| FY2024 | 3.9% |
| FY2025 | 1.9% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 11%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 0.53%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- −1.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- 0.01%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $6.80B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $500K
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$127M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 0.49%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.