Is the business good?
How good a business is ICL?
ICL Group Ltd earns 5.2% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
5.2%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.8 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 8.1%
Operating margin · Agricultural Inputs median 11% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Share count, year on year
- +0.11%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
- R&D as % of revenue
- 0.98%
R&D as % of revenue
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 4.0% |
| FY2021 | 17% |
| FY2022 | 35% |
| FY2023 | 15% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | 8.1% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 31%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 8.1%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 3.2%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 0.98%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $7.15B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $226M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 5.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Agricultural Inputs
Ranks #5 of 7 by Smart Score