Is the business good?
How good a business is URBN?
Urban Outfitters, Inc. earns 22% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
22%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 13 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 9.8%
Operating margin · Apparel Retail median 11% · 12 months to Q1 2027
- Cash conversion
- 0.32×
Cash conversion · 0.65× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −5.0%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 0.12% |
| FY2022 | 9.0% |
| FY2023 | 4.7% |
| FY2024 | 7.2% |
| FY2025 | 8.5% |
| FY2026 | 9.8% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 36%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 9.8%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 7.5%
- Free cash flow margin
- 2.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $6.32B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $150M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $472M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 22%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.