FRPTFreshpet, Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: 7 of 9 health tests passed, earnings fully cash-backed (2.7×), and margins widening.
High fundamental quality. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Positive operating leverage, operating profit is growing faster than sales, so margins widen as the business scales.
Margin-driven, fat margins on slower asset turns. ROE 14% = 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 FRPT?
Freshpet, Inc. earns 8.5% 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% · 0.50 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 8.1%
Operating margin · Packaged Foods median 7.6% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.74×
Cash conversion · 3.92× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +11%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −0.63% |
| FY2021 | −5.8% |
| FY2022 | −8.7% |
| FY2023 | −4.0% |
| FY2024 | 3.9% |
| FY2025 | 6.9% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 41%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 8.1%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 17%
- Free cash flow margin
- 5.2%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.18B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $61M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $203M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.5%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.