SSentinelOne, Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: margins widening, but 3 of 9 health tests passed.
Weak, deteriorating fundamentals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating margin has widened over the past few years, the business is getting more profitable per dollar of sales.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is S?
SentinelOne, Inc. earns −32% 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% · 41 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −29%
Operating margin · Software - Infrastructure median 5.8% · 12 months to Q2 2027
- Share count, year on year
- +3.2%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
- R&D as % of revenue
- 33%
R&D as % of revenue
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | −124% |
| FY2022 | −130% |
| FY2023 | −95% |
| FY2024 | −61% |
| FY2025 | −40% |
| FY2026 | −32% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2027
- 73%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2027
- −29%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2027
- −31%
- Free cash flow margin
- 5.1%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 33%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.10B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $57M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$340M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −32%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Software, Infrastructure
Ranks #67 of 80 by RyuScore