Is the business good?
How good a business is SCSC?
ScanSource, Inc. earns 8.3% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
8.3%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.67 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 3.0%
Operating margin · Electronics & Computer Distribution median 3.0% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −8.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 14%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −2.1% |
| FY2021 | 1.9% |
| FY2022 | 3.5% |
| FY2023 | 3.6% |
| FY2024 | 2.8% |
| FY2025 | 2.8% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 14%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 3.0%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 2.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.09B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $73M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.3%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Electronics & Computer Distribution
Ranks #4 of 6 by Smart Score