Casey's key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2026, Casey's had return on equity of 19.2% and a net margin of 4.1%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2010Apr 2010 | 2011Apr 2011 | 2012Apr 2012 | 2013Apr 2013 | 2014Apr 2014 | 2015Apr 2015 | 2016Apr 2016 | 2017Apr 2017 | 2018Apr 2018 | 2019Apr 2019 | 2020Apr 2020 | 2021Apr 2021 | 2022Apr 2022 | 2023Apr 2023 | 2024Apr 2024 | 2025Apr 2025 | 2026Apr 2026 | LTMJul 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 2.5% | 1.7% | 1.6% | 1.4% | 1.6% | 2.3% | 3.2% | 2.4% | 3.8% | 2.2% | 2.9% | 3.6% | 2.6% | 3.0% | 3.4% | 3.4% | 4.1% | 4.1% |
| Return on equity | 14.2% | 15.4% | 25.3% | 18.9% | 19.6% | 22.9% | 23.1% | 15.6% | 25.8% | 15.2% | 17.3% | 17.5% | 16.3% | 18.2% | 17.7% | 16.8% | 19.2% | 19.2% |
| Return on assets | 8.4% | 6.3% | 6.8% | 5.5% | 5.9% | 7.6% | 8.7% | 6.2% | 9.8% | 5.7% | 6.9% | 7.4% | 6.8% | 7.8% | 8.2% | 7.5% | 8.3% | 8.6% |
| Effective tax rate | 35.6% | 37.4% | 36.3% | 36.6% | 34.5% | 36.0% | 35.2% | 34.2% | −48.3% | 22.6% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 14.8% | 21.6% | 19.9% | 23.8% | 21.4% | 16.7% | 14.8% | 20.7% | 12.2% | 20.3% | 17.4% | 15.3% | 15.1% | 12.5% | 12.5% | 13.2% | 11.6% | 11.1% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $1.4bn of assets due within a year against $1.4bn of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $1.4bn short-term assets against $3.7bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $524m of cash against $2.4bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 59% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 81% to 59% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $1.4bn of operating cash flow against $2.4bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Interest not separately reported. Not assessable.
Moat
Moderate moat
How hard Casey's's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 10 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 10 / 20
Net income has been a median 6.8% of total assets over 10 years.
- Pricing power 7 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 19.7%, moving by 3.4 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
- Durability 10 / 20
Net margin has been a median 3.2%; its worst year was 2.2%.
- Cash conversion 9 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 8 of 10 years, at a median 2.6% of revenue.
- Discipline 17 / 20
The diluted share count fell 0.4% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.3% of revenue.
AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.
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