Is the business good?
How good a business is ERIC?
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) earns 31% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
31%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 22 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 16%
Operating margin · Communication Equipment median 4.4% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 1.07×
Cash conversion · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- +0.09%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 12% |
| FY2021 | 14% |
| FY2022 | 10.0% |
| FY2023 | −7.7% |
| FY2024 | 1.7% |
| FY2025 | 16% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 48%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 16%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 12%
- Free cash flow margin
- 13%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 21%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $236.7B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $30.3B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $28.4B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 31%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Communication Equipment
Ranks #12 of 21 by Smart Score