Is the business good?
How good a business is HLMN?
Hillman Solutions Corp. earns 4.4% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
4.4%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.6 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 6.8%
Operating margin · Tools & Accessories median 11% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.61×
Cash conversion · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −0.33%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 4.8% |
| FY2021 | 0.72% |
| FY2022 | 2.7% |
| FY2023 | 4.1% |
| FY2024 | 6.0% |
| FY2025 | 7.3% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 48%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 6.8%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 2.3%
- Free cash flow margin
- 1.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.56B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $22M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $36M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.4%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Tools & Accessories
Ranks #8 of 8 by Smart Score