SRSpire Inc.
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: 7 of 9 health tests passed, earnings fully cash-backed (1.3×), and margins widening.
High fundamental quality. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is worsening vs a year ago.
Positive operating leverage, operating profit is growing faster than sales, so margins widen as the business scales.
Margin-driven, fat margins on slower asset turns. ROE 11% = 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 SR?
Spire Inc. earns 4.4% 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% · 4.6 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 22%
Operating margin · Utilities - Regulated Gas median 23% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.26×
Cash conversion · 1.73× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- 0.00%
Share count, year on year · flat: no meaningful dilution
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 11% |
| FY2021 | 20% |
| FY2022 | 19% |
| FY2023 | 16% |
| FY2024 | 19% |
| FY2025 | 21% |
Details›
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 22%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 20%
- Free cash flow margin
- −8.1%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.73B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$222M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $549M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 4.4%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.