CLVTClarivate Plc
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.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is CLVT?
Clarivate Plc earns −0.78% 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% · 9.8 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- −3.5%
Operating margin · Information Technology Services median 9.5% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Share count, year on year
- −6.2%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
- Gross margin
- 67%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −2.9% |
| FY2021 | −4.6% |
| FY2022 | −148% |
| FY2023 | −28% |
| FY2024 | −11% |
| FY2025 | 2.9% |
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- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 67%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −3.5%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- −14%
- Free cash flow margin
- 14%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.41B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $328M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$334M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −0.78%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Information Technology Services
Ranks #24 of 30 by RyuScore