MSGSMadison Square Garden Sports Corp.
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (2.7×), but margins compressing.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
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 MSGS?
Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. keeps 2.5% of every revenue dollar as operating profit, against 4.3% for the median Entertainment name.
Operating margin · Entertainment median 4.3% · 12 months to Q4 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.75×
Cash conversion · 7.83× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Gross margin
- 28%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | −19% |
| FY2022 | 10% |
| FY2023 | 9.6% |
| FY2024 | 14% |
| FY2025 | 1.4% |
| FY2026 | 2.5% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 28%
- Operating margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 2.5%
- Net margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 0.67%
- Free cash flow margin
- 5.3%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.15B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $61M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $7.8M
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.