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How good a business is DRVN?
Driven Brands Holdings Inc. earns 8.2% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
8.2%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.80 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 13%
Operating margin · Auto & Truck Dealerships median 5.3% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.66×
Cash conversion · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- +1.7%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 10% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 9.8% |
| FY2023 | 6.7% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | 12% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 13%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 9.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 6.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.90B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $122M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $185M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Auto & Truck Dealerships
Ranks #4 of 15 by Smart Score