Is the business good?
How good a business is RUSHA?
Rush Enterprises, Inc. earns 13% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
13%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.2 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 5.3%
Operating margin · Auto & Truck Dealerships median 5.3% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.55×
Cash conversion · 1.59× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −3.0%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 3.3% |
| FY2021 | 6.0% |
| FY2022 | 7.1% |
| FY2023 | 6.5% |
| FY2024 | 6.0% |
| FY2025 | 5.3% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 20%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 5.3%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 3.6%
- Free cash flow margin
- 5.7%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $7.27B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $411M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $265M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 13%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Auto & Truck Dealerships
Ranks #8 of 15 by Smart Score