ALRMAlarm.com Holdings, Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (2.0×) and margins widening.
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Profits are tracking sales roughly one-for-one, limited operating leverage either way.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 15% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
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 ALRM?
Alarm.com Holdings, Inc. earns 12% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 3.3 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 13%
Operating margin · Software - Application median 6.9% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.96×
Cash conversion · 1.75× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −7.0%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 9.1% |
| FY2021 | 8.2% |
| FY2022 | 6.1% |
| FY2023 | 7.6% |
| FY2024 | 12% |
| FY2025 | 13% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 66%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 13%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 11%
- Free cash flow margin
- 18%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 26%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $1.06B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $188M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $117M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 12%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Customers and suppliers
Who buys from ALRM and who it buys from, as the companies report it.
- 10 largest service providers45%
Combined share of revenue · FY2025 10-K
None disclosed.
A company has to disclose every customer behind 10% or more of its revenue. Each share comes from the latest annual report of the company that states it and shows on both companies’ pages; ALRM’s own figures are from its FY2025 10-K. Smaller customers and suppliers go unreported.
Software, Application
Ranks #23 of 92 by RyuScore