Is the business good?
How good a business is LDOS?
Leidos 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% · 6.1 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 12%
Operating margin · Information Technology Services median 7.9% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.32×
Cash conversion · 0.92× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −2.3%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 8.1% |
| FY2021 | 8.4% |
| FY2022 | 7.6% |
| FY2023 | 4.0% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | 12% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 18%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 12%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 8.2%
- Free cash flow margin
- 11%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $17.3B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.86B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.41B
- 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.
Information Technology Services
Ranks #10 of 37 by Smart Score