SIRISirius XM Holdings Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (1.7×).
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Margins have held roughly steady, a stable cost structure.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 8% = 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 SIRI?
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. earns 6.1% 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% · 2.9 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 19%
Operating margin · Entertainment median 4.3% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.69×
Cash conversion · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −4.2%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 11% |
| FY2021 | 23% |
| FY2022 | 21% |
| FY2023 | 20% |
| FY2024 | −17% |
| FY2025 | 17% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 53%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 19%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 10%
- Free cash flow margin
- 18%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 3.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $8.60B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.55B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $880M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 6.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.