RUSHBRush Enterprises, Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (2.3×), but margins compressing.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 12% = 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 RUSHB?
Rush Enterprises, Inc. earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.5 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 5.1%
Operating margin · Auto & Truck Dealerships median 5.1% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.30×
Cash conversion · 2.65× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −0.34%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 3.3% |
| FY2021 | 6.0% |
| FY2022 | 7.1% |
| FY2023 | 6.5% |
| FY2024 | 6.0% |
| FY2025 | 5.3% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 20%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 5.1%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 3.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 4.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $7.24B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $348M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $265M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Auto & Truck Dealerships
Ranks #2 of 13 by RyuScore