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How good a business is VNT?
Vontier Corporation earns 15% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
15%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 5.5 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 19%
Operating margin · Scientific & Technical Instruments median 17% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.11×
Cash conversion · 1.08× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −5.7%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 17% |
| FY2021 | 19% |
| FY2022 | 18% |
| FY2023 | 18% |
| FY2024 | 18% |
| FY2025 | 18% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 19%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 11%
- Free cash flow margin
- 13%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 5.4%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.07B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $385M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $348M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 15%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Scientific & Technical Instruments
Ranks #1 of 16 by Smart Score