GHCGraham Holdings Company
Is the business good?
Margins widening. That is the only one of 4 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.
Operating profit is falling even as sales grow, costs are outrunning the top line.
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 GHC?
Graham Holdings Company earns 3.7% 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% · 5.3 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 5.1%
Operating margin · Education & Training Services median 13% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −1.5%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 3.5% |
| FY2021 | 2.4% |
| FY2022 | 2.1% |
| FY2023 | 1.6% |
| FY2024 | 4.5% |
| FY2025 | 4.8% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 5.1%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 11%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $5.07B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $544M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 3.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Education & Training Services
Ranks #9 of 15 by RyuScore