VSATViasat, Inc.
Is the business good?
Margins widening. That is the only one of 4 checks this filer's data supports, so take it as a single data point rather than a settled answer.
Operating margin has widened over the past few years, the business is getting more profitable per dollar of sales.
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 VSAT?
Viasat, Inc. earns 0.92% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 8.1 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 2.4%
Operating margin · Communication Equipment median 5.0% · 12 months to Q1 2027
- Share count, year on year
- +4.2%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
- R&D as % of revenue
- 3.8%
R&D as % of revenue
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | −2.4% |
| FY2022 | −4.7% |
| FY2023 | −6.1% |
| FY2024 | −21% |
| FY2025 | −2.2% |
| FY2026 | 2.3% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 2.4%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2027
- 0.19%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 3.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $4.63B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $8.9M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 0.92%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Communication Equipment
Ranks #17 of 20 by RyuScore