HONHoneywell
Is the business good?
More warning than reassurance: margins compressing and returns that lean on debt.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is mostly backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Profits are tracking sales roughly one-for-one, limited operating leverage either way.
Leverage-amplified, a high assets-to-equity ratio does much of the work. ROE 36% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
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 HON?
Honeywell earns 14% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.3 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 21%
Operating margin · Conglomerates median 7.3% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.81×
Cash conversion · 1.01× a year ago · most of the operating profit arrived as cash, working capital took the rest
- Share count, year on year
- −0.59%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2022 | 23% |
| FY2023 | 23% |
| FY2024 | 22% |
| FY2025 | 22% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 37%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 21%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 22%
- Free cash flow margin
- 11%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 5.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $38.1B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $4.01B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $8.21B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 14%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Conglomerates
The closest names by size in the same industry