Is the business good?
How good a business is ECVT?
Ecovyst Inc. earns 7.7% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
7.7%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.3 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 9.9%
Operating margin · Specialty Chemicals median 9.1% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −4.7%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 22%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 10% |
| FY2021 | 8.9% |
| FY2022 | 13% |
| FY2023 | 15% |
| FY2024 | 14% |
| FY2025 | 9.0% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 22%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 9.9%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- −8.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 10%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $795M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $80M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$63M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 7.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Chemicals
Ranks #9 of 36 by Smart Score