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How good a business is RSG?
Republic Services earns 10% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
10%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.2 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 17%
Operating margin · Industrials median 10% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.21×
Cash conversion · 1.10× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −1.8%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 14% |
| FY2021 | 16% |
| FY2022 | 15% |
| FY2023 | 16% |
| FY2024 | 17% |
| FY2025 | 17% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 49%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 17%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 11%
- Free cash flow margin
- 14%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $19.3B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $2.65B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $2.19B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 10%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Industrials
Ranks #162 of 332 by Smart Score