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Stryker Corporation earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
12%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.2 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 21%
Operating margin · Medical Devices median 11% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.26×
Cash conversion · 1.38× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −0.10%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 15% |
| FY2021 | 15% |
| FY2022 | 15% |
| FY2023 | 19% |
| FY2024 | 16% |
| FY2025 | 19% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 65%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 21%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 14%
- Free cash flow margin
- 18%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 6.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $25.8B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $4.70B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $3.73B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Medical Devices
Ranks #17 of 35 by Smart Score