UTIUniversal Technical Institute, Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (2.2×) and margins widening.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Operating profit is falling even as sales grow, costs are outrunning the top line.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 14% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is UTI?
Universal Technical Institute, Inc. earns 10% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 1.5 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 5.0%
Operating margin · Education & Training Services median 13% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.22×
Cash conversion · 1.70× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- +0.54%
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 Q3 2026
- 5.0%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 3.9%
- Free cash flow margin
- −2.6%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $884M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$23M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $34M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 10%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Education & Training Services
Ranks #11 of 15 by RyuScore