Is the business good?
How good a business is UVV?
Universal Corporation earns 5.9% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
5.9%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.1 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 5.8%
Operating margin · Consumer Defensive median 9.0% · 12 months to Q4 2026
- Cash conversion
- 2.46×
Cash conversion · 2.78× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Gross margin
- 16%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 7.5% |
| FY2022 | 7.7% |
| FY2023 | 7.1% |
| FY2024 | 8.2% |
| FY2025 | 8.0% |
| FY2026 | 5.8% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 16%
- Operating margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 5.8%
- Net margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 1.1%
- Free cash flow margin
- 2.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.89B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $80M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $33M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 5.9%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Consumer Defensive
Ranks #102 of 106 by Smart Score