Is the business good?
How good a business is GPC?
Genuine Parts Company earns 8.1% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
8.1%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.89 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 3.7%
Operating margin · Auto Parts median 8.5% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −0.91%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
- Gross margin
- 37%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 2.5% |
| FY2021 | 6.2% |
| FY2022 | 7.3% |
| FY2023 | 7.6% |
| FY2024 | 5.2% |
| FY2025 | 4.0% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 37%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 3.7%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 0.13%
- Free cash flow margin
- 3.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $25.1B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $759M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $33M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.