Is the business good?
How good a business is SARO?
StandardAero, Inc. earns 9.3% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
9.3%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.28 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 9.0%
Operating margin · Aerospace & Defense median 9.6% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.50×
Cash conversion · 0.37× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −0.24%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2022 | 6.3% |
| FY2023 | 7.4% |
| FY2024 | 7.7% |
| FY2025 | 9.1% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 15%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 9.0%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 4.7%
- Free cash flow margin
- 2.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $6.25B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $148M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $294M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 9.3%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Aerospace & Defense
Ranks #28 of 48 by Smart Score