Is the business good?
How good a business is OMC?
Omnicom Group earns 3.3% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
3.3%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.7 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 3.2%
Operating margin · Advertising Agencies median 11% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- +51%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
- Gross margin
- 9.5%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 12% |
| FY2021 | 15% |
| FY2022 | 15% |
| FY2023 | 14% |
| FY2024 | 14% |
| FY2025 | 2.6% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 9.5%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 3.2%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 0.32%
- Free cash flow margin
- 15%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $19.8B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $2.99B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $63M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 3.3%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
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Ranks #2 of 9 by Smart Score