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TriMas Corporation earns 3.9% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
3.9%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.1 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 4.0%
Operating margin · Packaging & Containers median 4.6% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.05×
Cash conversion · 0.82× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −8.6%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −11% |
| FY2021 | 11% |
| FY2022 | 11% |
| FY2023 | 7.8% |
| FY2024 | 2.4% |
| FY2025 | 6.4% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 22%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 4.0%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 137%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.3%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $662M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $48M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $909M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 3.9%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Packaging & Containers
Ranks #1 of 15 by Smart Score