EHCEncompass Health Corporation
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.4×) and margins widening.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Positive operating leverage, operating profit is growing faster than sales, so margins widen as the business scales.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 24% = 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 EHC?
Encompass Health Corporation earns 17% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 8.2 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 18%
Operating margin · Medical Care Facilities median 9.3% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.36×
Cash conversion · 1.42× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −2.3%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 16% |
| FY2021 | 14% |
| FY2022 | 12% |
| FY2023 | 15% |
| FY2024 | 16% |
| FY2025 | 18% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 18%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 10%
- Free cash flow margin
- 6.7%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $6.21B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $413M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $621M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 17%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.