Is the business good?
How good a business is MP?
MP Materials Corp. earns −7.0% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
−7.0%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 16 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −42%
Operating margin · Other Industrial Metals & Mining median 19% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +8.9%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
- Gross margin
- 21%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −26% |
| FY2021 | 50% |
| FY2022 | 62% |
| FY2023 | −7.0% |
| FY2024 | −83% |
| FY2025 | −67% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 21%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −42%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −20%
- Free cash flow margin
- −165%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $305M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$505M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$61M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −7.0%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Other Industrial Metals & Mining
Ranks #5 of 16 by Smart Score