Is the business good?
How good a business is UTI?
Universal Technical Institute, Inc. 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% · 5.1 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 6.3%
Operating margin · Education & Training Services median 13% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.04×
Cash conversion · 1.24× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- +0.52%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −1.3% |
| FY2021 | 4.5% |
| FY2022 | 5.3% |
| FY2023 | 3.5% |
| FY2024 | 8.0% |
| FY2025 | 10.0% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 6.3%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 4.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- 0.22%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $869M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.9M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $43M
- 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.
Education & Training Services
Ranks #13 of 16 by Smart Score