EYENational Vision Holdings, Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (2.1×) 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 3% = 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 EYE?
National Vision Holdings, Inc. earns 6.0% 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% · 3.0 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 4.1%
Operating margin · Specialty Retail median 8.1% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.12×
Cash conversion · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +0.67%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 5.1% |
| FY2021 | 8.4% |
| FY2022 | 3.2% |
| FY2023 | 1.4% |
| FY2024 | −0.57% |
| FY2025 | 3.0% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 59%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 4.1%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 2.5%
- Free cash flow margin
- 2.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.03B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $49M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $50M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 6.0%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.