WKCWorld Kinect Corporation
Is the business good?
The checks split: 5 of 9 health tests passed and margins steady.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Margins have held roughly steady, a stable cost structure.
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 WKC?
World Kinect Corporation earns −2.6% 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% · 12 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −0.15%
Operating margin · Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing median 5.8% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −7.9%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 2.7%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 0.68% |
| FY2021 | 0.46% |
| FY2022 | 0.46% |
| FY2023 | 0.42% |
| FY2024 | 0.50% |
| FY2025 | −1.5% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 2.7%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −0.15%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −0.43%
- Free cash flow margin
- 0.05%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $41.7B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $20M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$179M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −2.6%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing
Ranks #8 of 9 by RyuScore