Valuation
26% of the score
71median 53
NPK International Inc. is valued at 17.8x its operating profit, including debt: an ordinary multiple.
60x
50x
35x
25x
18x
12x
8x
17.8x
Full points at 8x or less, none from 60xfull points
NPKINPK International Inc.
$10.88-5.5% 1Y
$10.88
$10.6752 weeks$16.35
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 58 out of 100, Average
Today's price. Only valuation depends on it.
Average. NPK International Inc. scores higher than 55% of the 2,231 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by valuation and return on new capital, held back by return on capital and cycle position.
Industrials median 61 · all companies 55
How the score has moved
At each fiscal year end, from the reports and price of the time25
27
10
35
43
56
58
202020212022202320242025today
The biggest move was up 25 points from 2022 to 2023, mostly valuation.
Return on capital
18% of the score
0median 24
Over 7 years the business earned 0.2% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
0.2%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
7 years agolatest 9.8%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
100median 33
For every dollar of operating profit earned over 6 years, yearly profit grew by 98 cents. It did so while using less capital than before.
-5%
12%
98%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points
Capital allocation
14% of the score
74median 63
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countDown 1% a year over 5 years: buybacks
755%
-3%
-1%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew -9% a year, sales -11%
7312%
-2%
1.8%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
0median 63
Today's operating margin of 17% is 3.15x its normal 5.5%: near a peak, where margins tend to fall back. Normal is half the 10 year median, half the last four years, so a margin that has held is not taken for a peak.
2x
1.5x
1x
0.7x
3.1x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow 17%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
100median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Net debt to EBITDA0x a year of EBITDA
1004.5x
0.5x
0x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
92median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 8.2% of assets
1008%
0%
-8%
-8.2%
0 pointsfull points
Beneish M-score-2.70
85-1.50
-1.78
-2.22
-3.00
-2.70
0 pointsfull points
How the RyuScore works
Each criterion earns 0 to 100 points on the scale drawn under it, and the RyuScore is their average weighted 26, 18, 16, 14, 12, 8 and 6. Scales bend in the company's favour between their ends, so an ordinary figure is never already near zero. Where a criterion cannot be measured from the filings it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up; a company needs 60% of the weight covered, and always a price, to get a score.
Built from the company's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC and today's share price. Banks, insurers and property trusts are not scored: their debt is their raw material, so these yardsticks mean something else there. Figures as of 2026-06-30, latest annual report FY2025.
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