Is the business good?
How good a business is HLIO?
Helios Technologies, Inc. earns 5.6% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
5.6%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.4 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 9.0%
Operating margin · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 15% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.77×
Cash conversion · 2.58× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −0.30%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 6.8% |
| FY2021 | 17% |
| FY2022 | 16% |
| FY2023 | 9.6% |
| FY2024 | 10% |
| FY2025 | 7.9% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 33%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 9.0%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 7.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 12%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $872M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $108M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $61M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 5.6%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #26 of 44 by Smart Score