Is the business good?
How good a business is ZWS?
Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation earns 13% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
13%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.8 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 17%
Operating margin · Industrials median 10% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −1.5%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 45%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2019 | 15% |
| FY2021 | 12% |
| FY2022 | 8.4% |
| FY2023 | 13% |
| FY2024 | 16% |
| FY2025 | 16% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 45%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 17%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 12%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.74B
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $213M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 13%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.