FIZZNational Beverage Corp.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.1×), margins widening, and elite returns on assets.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Operating margin has widened over the past few years, the business is getting more profitable per dollar of sales.
High-quality, exceptional returns on the assets themselves, not leverage. ROE 36% = 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 FIZZ?
National Beverage Corp. earns 66% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 57 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 18%
Operating margin · Beverages - Non-Alcoholic median 17% · 12 months to Q1 2027
- Cash conversion
- 1.13×
Cash conversion · 1.15× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −0.04%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 21% |
| FY2022 | 18% |
| FY2023 | 16% |
| FY2024 | 18% |
| FY2025 | 20% |
| FY2026 | 19% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 36%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 18%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 15%
- Free cash flow margin
- 14%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.18B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $162M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $175M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 66%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.