Is the business good?
How good a business is MEOH?
Methanex Corporation earns 7.1% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
7.1%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.9 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 12%
Operating margin · Chemicals median −1.7% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Share count, year on year
- +7.5%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
- Gross margin
- 36%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −2.0% |
| FY2021 | 16% |
| FY2022 | 14% |
| FY2023 | 7.1% |
| FY2024 | 9.7% |
| FY2025 | 12% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 36%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 12%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 4.0%
- Free cash flow margin
- 26%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.59B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $917M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $145M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 7.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.