Is the business good?
How good a business is OLLI?
Ollie's Bargain Outlet Holdings, Inc. earns 14% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
14%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.5 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 11%
Operating margin · Discount Stores median 4.5% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.85×
Cash conversion · 0.47× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −1.0%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 15% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 7.2% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
| FY2024 | 11% |
| FY2025 | 11% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 41%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 11%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 9.1%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.73B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $213M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $249M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 14%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Discount Stores
Ranks #6 of 9 by Smart Score