DUKDuke Energy
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.5×) 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.
Margin-driven, fat margins on slower asset turns. ROE 10% = 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 DUK?
Duke Energy earns 5.0% 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% · 4.0 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 27%
Operating margin · Utilities - Regulated Electric median 22% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.49×
Cash conversion · 1.63× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +0.26%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 20% |
| FY2021 | 22% |
| FY2022 | 21% |
| FY2023 | 24% |
| FY2024 | 26% |
| FY2025 | 27% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 27%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 15%
- Free cash flow margin
- −10.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $33.2B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$3.30B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $5.14B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 5.0%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Utilities, Regulated Electric
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