Is the business good?
How good a business is FLEX?
Flex Ltd. earns 15% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
15%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.5 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 5.0%
Operating margin · Electronic Components median 9.6% · 12 months to Q1 2027
- Cash conversion
- 0.85×
Cash conversion · 1.24× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −1.8%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 3.3% |
| FY2022 | 3.6% |
| FY2023 | 3.6% |
| FY2024 | 3.2% |
| FY2025 | 4.5% |
| FY2026 | 4.9% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 9.4%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 5.0%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 3.3%
- Free cash flow margin
- 2.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $29.3B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $826M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $973M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 15%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Electronic Components
Ranks #16 of 23 by Smart Score