PBHPrestige Consumer Healthcare Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.2×) and margins widening.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Operating margin has widened over the past few years, the business is getting more profitable per dollar of sales.
Margin-driven, fat margins on slower asset turns. ROE 10% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is PBH?
Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. earns 6.0% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.0 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 26%
Operating margin · Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic median 11% · 12 months to Q1 2027
- Cash conversion
- 1.17×
Cash conversion · 1.11× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −4.5%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 32% |
| FY2022 | 30% |
| FY2023 | −2.0% |
| FY2024 | 30% |
| FY2025 | 30% |
| FY2026 | 28% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 54%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 26%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 16%
- Free cash flow margin
- 21%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.10B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $235M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $172M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 6.0%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Drug Manufacturers, Specialty & Generic
Ranks #11 of 41 by RyuScore