SBSafe Bulkers, Inc.
Is the business good?
Earnings fully cash-backed (1.5×). That is the only one of 4 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is SB?
Safe Bulkers, 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% · 3.3 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Cash conversion
- 1.51×
Cash conversion · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
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- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $140M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $132M
- 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.