Is the business good?
How good a business is KBR?
KBR, Inc. earns 15% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
15%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 6.0 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 9.5%
Operating margin · Engineering & Construction median 7.4% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.84×
Cash conversion · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −1.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 0.99% |
| FY2021 | 3.1% |
| FY2022 | 5.2% |
| FY2023 | 6.5% |
| FY2024 | 8.6% |
| FY2025 | 10.0% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 14%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 9.5%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 5.5%
- Free cash flow margin
- 4.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $7.72B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $355M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $424M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 15%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Engineering & Construction
Ranks #11 of 27 by Smart Score