Is the business good?
How good a business is WAB?
Wabtec earns 9.1% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
9.1%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.07 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 16%
Operating margin · Railroads median 33% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.35×
Cash conversion · 1.26× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −0.93%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 9.9% |
| FY2021 | 11% |
| FY2022 | 12% |
| FY2023 | 13% |
| FY2024 | 15% |
| FY2025 | 16% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 35%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 16%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 11%
- Free cash flow margin
- 14%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 2.1%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $12.0B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $1.71B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $1.27B
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 9.1%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.