Is the business good?
How good a business is ITT?
ITT Inc. earns 7.5% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
7.5%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.5 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 14%
Operating margin · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 15% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.21×
Cash conversion · 0.94× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- +13%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 9.1% |
| FY2021 | 18% |
| FY2022 | 16% |
| FY2023 | 16% |
| FY2024 | 19% |
| FY2025 | 17% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 35%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 14%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 8.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- 11%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 2.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $4.74B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $510M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $422M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 7.5%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #23 of 44 by Smart Score