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How good a business is GE?
GE Aerospace earns 26% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
26%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 17 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 18%
Operating margin · Aerospace & Defense median 9.6% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.94×
Cash conversion · 0.71× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −2.2%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −7.2% |
| FY2021 | −15% |
| FY2022 | 2.4% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
| FY2024 | 14% |
| FY2025 | 19% |
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- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 18%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 18%
- Free cash flow margin
- 17%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 3.5%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $50.6B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $8.40B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $8.97B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 26%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Aerospace & Defense
Ranks #1 of 48 by Smart Score