Is the business good?
How good a business is FIVN?
Five9, Inc. earns 39% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
39%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 30 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 4.5%
Operating margin · Software - Infrastructure median 6.1% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 3.78×
Cash conversion · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −3.3%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −2.8% |
| FY2021 | −9.2% |
| FY2022 | −11% |
| FY2023 | −11% |
| FY2024 | −4.9% |
| FY2025 | 2.5% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 55%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 4.5%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 4.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- 18%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 13%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.17B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $216M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $57M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 39%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Software - Infrastructure
Ranks #67 of 78 by Smart Score