Brinker International, Inc key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2026, Brinker International, Inc had return on equity of 119.6%, an operating margin of 10.7%, debt equal to 101.0% of equity and a current ratio of 0.45. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.

Financial ratios

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal years, plus the last twelve months (LTM) when newer.

Brinker International, Inc: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year	2010Jun 2010	2011Jun 2011	2012Jun 2012	2013Jun 2013	2014Jun 2014	2015Jun 2015	2016Jun 2016	2017Jun 2017	2018Jun 2018	2019Jun 2019	2020Jun 2020	2021Jun 2021	2022Jun 2022	2023Jun 2023	2024Jun 2024	2025Jun 2025	2026Jun 2026	LTMSept 2026
Gross margin	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	74.9%	74.6%	74.4%	74.1%	74.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—
Operating margin	5.4%	7.4%	8.2%	9.0%	8.3%	10.4%	9.7%	8.1%	7.2%	7.2%	2.0%	6.0%	4.2%	3.5%	5.2%	9.5%	10.7%	11.0%
Net margin	4.8%	5.1%	5.4%	5.7%	5.3%	6.5%	6.2%	4.8%	4.0%	4.8%	0.8%	3.9%	3.1%	2.5%	3.5%	7.1%	8.4%	8.4%
Free-cash-flow margin	8.3%	6.9%	6.3%	5.6%	6.8%	7.6%	8.8%	6.7%	5.8%	1.4%	4.6%	8.3%	2.7%	1.7%	5.1%	7.7%	9.6%	10.1%
Return on equity	18.9%	24.2%	40.4%	71.1%	145.0%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	186.7%	119.6%	118.7%
Return on assets	7.4%	8.5%	10.3%	11.3%	10.5%	13.3%	13.9%	10.5%	9.2%	11.9%	1.4%	5.7%	4.9%	4.1%	6.1%	14.5%	17.7%	17.9%
Asset turnover	1.54	1.66	1.93	1.97	1.98	2.05	2.25	2.20	2.28	2.47	1.70	1.44	1.60	1.66	1.74	2.04	2.11	2.12
Current ratio	1.11	0.55	0.49	0.51	0.45	0.45	0.41	0.33	0.36	0.42	0.45	0.36	0.36	0.34	0.38	0.31	0.45	0.34
Debt to equity	74.3%	119.5%	198.5%	540.8%	>999%	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	>999%	120.7%	101.0%	121.2%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)	5.4x	7.3x	8.7x	8.8x	8.6x	10.7x	9.7x	5.2x	3.8x	3.7x	1.1x	3.5x	3.5x	2.6x	3.5x	9.6x	15.3x	12.0x
Effective tax rate	21.4%	23.1%	27.6%	29.1%	28.8%	31.5%	29.9%	27.7%	26.0%	9.8%	—	9.4%	−2.1%	−13.0%	5.8%	16.7%	16.2%	—
Capital spending as % of revenue	2.1%	2.5%	4.4%	4.6%	5.5%	4.7%	3.5%	3.3%	3.2%	5.2%	3.4%	2.8%	4.0%	4.5%	4.5%	4.9%	4.0%	4.0%
Free cash flow ÷ net income	171.8%	134.4%	117.8%	97.4%	129.0%	117.3%	143.2%	140.9%	145.5%	29.1%	575.8%	209.5%	86.6%	69.6%	143.6%	108.0%	114.5%	120.0%
Dividends ÷ net income	25.0%	37.7%	33.1%	34.5%	41.2%	36.4%	36.9%	46.9%	55.6%	38.9%	235.2%	1.1%	0.9%	0.6%	0.1%	0.0%	0.0%	—
Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow	24.2%	250.6%	189.3%	244.9%	152.4%	165.1%	124.9%	207.9%	203.7%	505.5%	63.9%	2.1%	100.1%	7.8%	11.7%	21.8%	79.6%	79.0%

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal quarters.

Brinker International, Inc: financial ratios, quarterly
Quarter	2025 Q2Dec 2024	2025 Q3Mar 2025	2025 Q4Jun 2025	2026 Q1Sept 2025	2026 Q2Dec 2025	2026 Q3Mar 2026	2026 Q4Jun 2026	2027 Q1Sept 2026
Operating margin	11.5%	11.0%	9.8%	8.7%	11.6%	11.3%	10.9%	10.2%
Net margin	8.7%	8.4%	7.3%	7.4%	8.8%	8.7%	8.5%	7.7%
Free-cash-flow margin	12.4%	9.3%	7.3%	4.6%	10.7%	12.3%	10.4%	7.2%
Current ratio	0.33	0.28	0.31	0.35	0.36	0.40	0.45	0.34
Debt to equity	495.8%	200.1%	114.9%	152.9%	119.0%	104.5%	94.6%	112.8%

Returns use average equity or assets over the year. Return on equity is left blank when equity is negative or so small that the ratio says nothing (above ±200%); interest cover is left blank above 200 times. Price-based ratios such as P/E are on the valuation page.

Financial health

2 of 5 checks passed · September 23, 2026

What it owns · $2.8bn

Short-term assets $222mLonger-term assets $2.6bn

What it owes, and who funded it · $1.0bn

Short-term liabilities $644mShareholders' equity $400m

Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $222m of assets due within a year against $644m of liabilities due within a year.
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities Not assessable from the reported split. Not assessable.
More cash than debt $31m of cash against $451m of debt.
Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 113% of equity.
Debt burden no higher than five years ago Five-year comparison not available. Not assessable.
A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $838m of operating cash flow against $451m of debt.
Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $653m against $55m of interest.

From Brinker International, Inc's latest balance sheet as filed. Checks are fixed, documented rules (methodology), counted only where the company reports the figures — a dot means the filing doesn't break the item out. Descriptions of reported data, not advice.

Moat

56 /100

Moderate moat

How hard Brinker International'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 9 / 20

Net income has been a median 6.6% of total assets over 10 years.
Durability 5 / 20

Operating margin has been a median 6.2%; its worst year was 1.8%.
Cash conversion 13 / 20

Free cash flow was positive in 10 of 10 years, at a median 5.1% of revenue.
Discipline 19 / 20

The diluted share count fell 6.0% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.5% of revenue.

AI disruption exposure: Low. In this industry, the business rests on physical assets, regulated networks or products AI itself depends on.

A rules-based reading of reported figures, not a forecast and not investment advice. How the score is built: methodology.

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Figures from Brinker International, Inc's SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 29, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Brinker International, Inc.