FTSFortis Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (1.3×), but margins compressing.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is FTS?
Fortis Inc. earns 4.7% 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% · 4.3 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 28%
Operating margin · Utilities - Regulated Electric median 22% · 12 months to Q2 2025
- Cash conversion
- 1.28×
Cash conversion · 1.45× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +3.5%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 28% |
| FY2021 | 26% |
| FY2022 | 25% |
| FY2023 | 27% |
| FY2024 | 29% |
| FY2025 | 29% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2025
- 71%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2025
- 28%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2025
- 16%
- Free cash flow margin
- −13%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $11.9B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$1.50B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.90B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Utilities, Regulated Electric
Ranks #5 of 15 by RyuScore