Is the business good?
How good a business is LOAR?
Loar Holdings Inc. earns 4.4% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
4.4%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.6 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 21%
Operating margin · Aerospace & Defense median 9.6% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Gross margin
- 52%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2023 | 22% |
| FY2024 | 22% |
| FY2025 | 21% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 52%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 21%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 13%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $538M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $68M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.4%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Aerospace & Defense
Ranks #35 of 48 by Smart Score