GGBGerdau S.A.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (3.8×).
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Margins have held roughly steady, a stable cost structure.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 3% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is GGB?
Gerdau S.A. earns 6.2% 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% · 2.8 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 5.3%
Operating margin · Steel median 5.3% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 3.80×
Cash conversion · 1.81× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Gross margin
- 11%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 12% |
| FY2021 | 27% |
| FY2022 | 22% |
| FY2023 | 15% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | 5.3% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 11%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 5.3%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 2.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 1.9%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $69.9B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.31B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.39B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 6.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.