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How good a business is HURN?
Huron Consulting Group Inc. earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
12%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.8 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 10%
Operating margin · Consulting Services median 10% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.19×
Cash conversion · 1.75× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −5.8%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −3.3% |
| FY2021 | 5.7% |
| FY2022 | 8.6% |
| FY2023 | 9.0% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | 11% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 34%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 10%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 5.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.1%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.75B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $124M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $104M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Consulting Services
Ranks #4 of 6 by Smart Score