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How good a business is FBIN?
Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. earns 7.8% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
7.8%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.2 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 11%
Operating margin · Building Products & Equipment median 16% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.25×
Cash conversion · 1.17× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- 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 | 17% |
| FY2022 | 16% |
| FY2023 | 13% |
| FY2024 | 16% |
| FY2025 | 12% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 44%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 11%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 6.1%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $4.44B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $340M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $272M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 7.8%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Building Products & Equipment
Ranks #11 of 18 by Smart Score