HURNHuron Consulting Group Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.0×) and margins widening.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Negative operating leverage, costs are rising faster than sales, squeezing margins as it grows.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 22% = 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 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.
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 10.0% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.03×
Cash conversion · 1.59× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- 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% |
Details›
- 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 is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.