HUBGHub Group, Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (1.5×), but margins compressing.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 6% = 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 HUBG?
Hub Group, Inc. earns 5.8% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.2 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 3.8%
Operating margin · Integrated Freight & Logistics median 5.3% · 12 months to Q3 2025
- Cash conversion
- 1.46×
Cash conversion · 2.60× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2019 | 4.2% |
| FY2020 | 3.0% |
| FY2021 | 5.6% |
| FY2022 | 8.9% |
| FY2023 | 5.1% |
| FY2024 | 3.5% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2025
- 3.8%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2025
- 2.8%
- Free cash flow margin
- 3.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.73B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $113M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $105M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 5.8%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Integrated Freight & Logistics
Ranks #2 of 8 by RyuScore