LOARLoar Holdings Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (1.1×).
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Profits are tracking sales roughly one-for-one, limited operating leverage either way.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 6% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is LOAR?
Loar Holdings Inc. earns 5.0% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.0 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 22%
Operating margin · Aerospace & Defense median 9.6% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.07×
Cash conversion · 1.16× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Gross margin
- 52%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2023 | 22% |
| FY2024 | 22% |
| FY2025 | 21% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 52%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 22%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 12%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $586M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $68M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 5.0%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Aerospace & Defense
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