Is the business good?
How good a business is GPRE?
Green Plains Inc. earns 2.7% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
2.7%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 6.3 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 2.1%
Operating margin · Chemicals median −1.7% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +31%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
- Gross margin
- 11%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −6.4% |
| FY2021 | 0.90% |
| FY2022 | −2.7% |
| FY2023 | −1.9% |
| FY2024 | −1.9% |
| FY2025 | −3.2% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 11%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 2.1%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- −0.80%
- Free cash flow margin
- 5.1%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.94B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $99M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$15M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 2.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.