Is the business good?
How good a business is ESLT?
Elbit Systems Ltd. earns 14% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
14%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.5 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 8.5%
Operating margin · Aerospace & Defense median 9.6% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 1.03×
Cash conversion · 0.99× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- +4.9%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 7.0% |
| FY2021 | 7.9% |
| FY2022 | 6.7% |
| FY2023 | 6.2% |
| FY2024 | 7.2% |
| FY2025 | 8.5% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 24%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 8.5%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 6.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.0%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 7.5%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $7.94B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $553M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $534M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 14%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Aerospace & Defense
Ranks #17 of 48 by Smart Score