PKXPOSCO Holdings Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (6.1×).
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Operating profit is falling even as sales grow, costs are outrunning the top line.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 2% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is PKX?
POSCO Holdings Inc. earns 1.7% 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% · 7.3 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 2.0%
Operating margin · Steel median 5.3% · fiscal year to FY2024
- Cash conversion
- 6.05×
Cash conversion · 3.22× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +2.8%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2019 | 5.0% |
| FY2020 | 3.6% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 5.1% |
| FY2023 | 3.5% |
| FY2024 | 2.0% |
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- Gross marginfiscal year to FY2024
- 7.5%
- Operating marginfiscal year to FY2024
- 2.0%
- Net marginfiscal year to FY2024
- 1.5%
- Free cash flow margin
- −1.4%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 0.76%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $73.46T
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$1.01T
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.13T
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 1.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.