CPBThe Campbell's Company
Is the business good?
The checks split: earnings fully cash-backed (1.6×), but margins compressing.
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.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 13% = 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 CPB?
The Campbell's Company earns 6.1% 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% · 2.9 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 8.7%
Operating margin · Packaged Foods median 7.7% · 12 months to Q4 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.59×
Cash conversion · 1.33× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- R&D as % of revenue
- 1.0%
R&D as % of revenue
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2021 | 18% |
| FY2022 | 14% |
| FY2023 | 14% |
| FY2024 | 10% |
| FY2025 | 11% |
| FY2026 | 8.7% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 28%
- Operating margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 8.7%
- Net margin12 months to Q4 2026
- 4.1%
- Free cash flow margin
- 7.0%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 1.0%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $9.74B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $678M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $403M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 6.1%
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 CPB and who it buys from, as the companies report it.
- WMTWalmart22%
Share of revenue · FY2026 10-K
- Top five customers48%
Combined share of revenue · FY2026 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; CPB’s own figures are from its FY2026 10-K. Smaller customers and suppliers go unreported.
Packaged Foods
The closest names by size in the same industry