Is the business good?
How good a business is LW?
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc. earns 8.3% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
8.3%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.66 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 9.3%
Operating margin · Packaged Foods median 8.2% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.11×
Cash conversion · 0.23× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −2.2%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 15% |
| FY2021 | 13% |
| FY2022 | 11% |
| FY2023 | 16% |
| FY2024 | 16% |
| FY2025 | 10% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 21%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 9.3%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 4.6%
- Free cash flow margin
- 9.7%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $6.52B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $634M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $300M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.3%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.