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How good a business is NTR?
Nutrien Ltd. 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% · 0.65 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 14%
Operating margin · Agricultural Inputs median 11% · fiscal year to FY2025
- Cash conversion
- 0.94×
Cash conversion · 2.24× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −1.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 17% |
| FY2022 | 29% |
| FY2023 | 9.4% |
| FY2024 | 7.1% |
| FY2025 | 14% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 31%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 14%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2025
- 8.4%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.9%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $26.9B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $2.13B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $2.27B
- 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.
Agricultural Inputs
Ranks #2 of 7 by Smart Score