Is the business good?
How good a business is SLVM?
Sylvamo Corporation earns 9.7% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
9.7%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.71 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 5.8%
Operating margin · Basic Materials median 13% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.10×
Cash conversion · 0.90× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −4.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2022 | 15% |
| FY2023 | 12% |
| FY2024 | 12% |
| FY2025 | 7.5% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 21%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 5.8%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 3.1%
- Free cash flow margin
- 0.30%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.29B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $10M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $102M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 9.7%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.