Is the business good?
How good a business is DORM?
Dorman Products, Inc. earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
12%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.7 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 13%
Operating margin · Auto Parts median 8.5% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.37×
Cash conversion · 0.89× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −1.3%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 12% |
| FY2021 | 13% |
| FY2022 | 9.9% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
| FY2024 | 15% |
| FY2025 | 14% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 41%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 13%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 8.8%
- Free cash flow margin
- 3.3%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.15B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $71M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $190M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.