Is the business good?
How good a business is NWL?
Newell Brands Inc. earns 0.58% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
0.58%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 8.4 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 0.72%
Operating margin · Household & Personal Products median 15% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +1.1%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
- Gross margin
- 34%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −6.7% |
| FY2021 | 9.6% |
| FY2022 | 3.3% |
| FY2023 | −1.1% |
| FY2024 | 0.88% |
| FY2025 | 0.54% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 34%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 0.72%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- −3.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- 0.26%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $7.19B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $19M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$281M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 0.58%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Household & Personal Products
Ranks #5 of 13 by Smart Score