Is the business good?
How good a business is SXI?
Standex International Corporation earns 14% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
14%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.0 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 22%
Operating margin · Specialty Industrial Machinery median 15% · 12 months to Q4 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.61×
Cash conversion · 0.74× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Gross margin
- 42%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 9.0% |
| FY2022 | 12% |
| FY2023 | 23% |
| FY2024 | 14% |
| FY2025 | 12% |
| FY2026 | 22% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 42%
- Operating margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 22%
- Net margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 12%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.2%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $892M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $64M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $105M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 14%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Industrial Machinery
Ranks #10 of 44 by Smart Score