SWKSSkyworks Solutions
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (2.6×), but margins compressing.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 7% = 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 SWKS?
Skyworks Solutions earns 4.4% 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% · 4.6 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 7.6%
Operating margin · Semiconductors median 7.5% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.63×
Cash conversion · 4.11× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +0.73%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 27% |
| FY2021 | 32% |
| FY2022 | 28% |
| FY2023 | 24% |
| FY2024 | 15% |
| FY2025 | 12% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 41%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 7.6%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 7.2%
- Free cash flow margin
- 11%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 21%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $4.01B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $434M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $290M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.4%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Semiconductors
The closest names by size in the same industry