Is the business good?
How good a business is RHI?
Robert Half Inc. earns 6.2% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
6.2%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 2.8 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 1.4%
Operating margin · Industrials median 10% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.68×
Cash conversion · 1.51× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −1.1%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 8.3% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 12% |
| FY2023 | 7.3% |
| FY2024 | 4.2% |
| FY2025 | 1.4% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 37%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 1.4%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 2.4%
- Free cash flow margin
- 4.1%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $5.33B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $218M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $129M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 6.2%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.