Is the business good?
How good a business is NDSN?
Nordson Corporation earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
12%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.1 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 26%
Operating margin · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 15% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.35×
Cash conversion · 1.03× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −1.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 16% |
| FY2021 | 26% |
| FY2022 | 27% |
| FY2023 | 26% |
| FY2024 | 25% |
| FY2025 | 25% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 55%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 26%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 18%
- Free cash flow margin
- 25%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.90B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $714M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $528M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #7 of 44 by Smart Score