KAROKarooooo Ltd.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (2.0×) and elite returns on assets.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
High-quality, exceptional returns on the assets themselves, not leverage. ROE 29% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is KARO?
Karooooo Ltd. earns 50% 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% · 41 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 29%
Operating margin · Software - Application median 6.4% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 1.96×
Cash conversion · 1.29× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −0.17%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 32% |
| FY2021 | 32% |
| FY2022 | 25% |
| FY2023 | 25% |
| FY2024 | 25% |
| FY2025 | 29% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 70%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 29%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 20%
- Free cash flow margin
- 20%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 5.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $4.57B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $911M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $921M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 50%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Software, Application
Ranks #2 of 96 by RyuScore