First Majestic Silver Corp key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, First Majestic Silver Corp had return on equity of 8.0%, an operating margin of 31.6%, debt equal to 10.6% of equity and a current ratio of 2.60. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2016Dec 2016 | 2017Dec 2017 | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 17.7% | 6.3% | 27.2% | 36.2% | 46.6% | 37.3% | 24.4% | 28.5% | 38.5% | 56.8% |
| Operating margin | 10.2% | −28.1% | −82.8% | −8.8% | 11.1% | 8.4% | −6.3% | −31.2% | −0.7% | 31.6% |
| Net margin | 3.1% | −21.1% | −67.8% | −11.1% | 6.3% | −0.8% | −18.3% | −23.5% | −18.2% | 13.1% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 29.2% | 19.6% | −0.6% | 27.0% | 10.0% | 2.1% | −6.5% | 4.1% | 23.5% | 36.9% |
| Return on equity | 1.4% | −8.8% | −34.7% | −6.4% | 3.1% | −0.4% | −8.1% | −9.8% | −7.5% | 8.0% |
| Return on assets | 1.0% | −6.5% | −23.9% | −4.2% | 2.1% | −0.3% | −5.4% | −6.6% | −5.2% | 4.9% |
| Asset turnover | 0.32 | 0.31 | 0.35 | 0.38 | 0.32 | 0.35 | 0.29 | 0.28 | 0.28 | 0.38 |
| Current ratio | 3.64 | 3.14 | 2.86 | 3.38 | 3.50 | 2.30 | 2.21 | 2.57 | 2.56 | 2.60 |
| Debt to equity | 7.1% | 5.5% | 25.1% | 23.5% | 18.0% | 12.8% | 14.9% | 16.2% | 15.5% | 10.6% |
| Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest) | 12.7x | n/m | n/m | n/m | 3.3x | 3.9x | n/m | n/m | n/m | 26.8x |
| Effective tax rate | 66.3% | — | — | — | 22.3% | — | — | — | — | 46.6% |
| Capital spending as % of revenue | 6.7% | 8.3% | 11.6% | 11.4% | 11.9% | 9.7% | 9.6% | 5.6% | 3.6% | 4.9% |
| Free cash flow ÷ net income | 945.5% | — | — | — | 157.6% | — | — | — | — | 281.3% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | — | — | — | — | 0.0% | — | — | — | — | 6.0% |
| Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow | — | — | — | — | 0.0% | 32.3% | — | 24.8% | 4.0% | 2.1% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $1.2bn of assets due within a year against $459m of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $1.2bn short-term assets against $1.1bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $793m of cash against $292m of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 11% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 17% to 11% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $526m of operating cash flow against $292m of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $397m against $15m of interest.
Moat
Not assessed: fewer than five years of comparable figures in the filings. AI disruption exposure for this industry: Medium.
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