Everforth Inc key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Everforth Inc had return on equity of 6.3%, an operating margin of 5.8%, debt equal to 65.6% of equity and a current ratio of 2.16. 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 | LTMSept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 32.6% | 32.4% | 30.1% | 28.4% | 27.0% | 28.5% | 29.9% | 28.8% | 28.9% | 28.9% | 28.3% |
| Operating margin | 7.8% | 8.6% | 7.7% | 8.1% | 8.0% | 8.8% | 8.9% | 8.2% | 7.4% | 5.8% | 4.6% |
| Net margin | 4.0% | 6.0% | 4.6% | 5.1% | 5.7% | 10.2% | 5.9% | 4.9% | 4.3% | 2.9% | 1.7% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 7.1% | 6.6% | 7.6% | 8.2% | 11.2% | 4.0% | 5.9% | 9.4% | 8.9% | 7.2% | 4.9% |
| Return on equity | 11.2% | 17.0% | 14.5% | 13.7% | 13.5% | 23.7% | 14.2% | 11.6% | 9.6% | 6.3% | 3.7% |
| Return on assets | 5.5% | 8.9% | 7.0% | 6.2% | 6.4% | 12.1% | 7.6% | 6.2% | 5.0% | 3.2% | 1.8% |
| Asset turnover | 1.39 | 1.47 | 1.51 | 1.21 | 1.13 | 1.18 | 1.29 | 1.25 | 1.18 | 1.12 | 1.04 |
| Current ratio | 2.69 | 3.00 | 2.23 | 2.32 | 2.39 | 2.90 | 2.22 | 2.47 | 2.50 | 2.16 | 2.13 |
| Debt to equity | 75.5% | 59.3% | 95.1% | 75.6% | 65.6% | 55.8% | 56.4% | 55.4% | 58.7% | 65.6% | 75.9% |
| Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest) | 5.9x | 8.1x | 4.6x | 5.2x | 7.1x | 9.4x | 8.9x | 5.5x | 4.7x | 3.4x | 2.4x |
| Effective tax rate | 38.2% | 19.9% | 22.6% | 26.8% | 26.5% | 26.0% | 26.6% | 26.3% | 27.0% | 30.2% | 36.6% |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 23.2% | 22.5% | 20.7% | 18.9% | 17.6% | 18.4% | 19.5% | 19.0% | 20.0% | 21.5% | 22.0% |
| Capital spending as % of revenue | 1.1% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 1.0% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 0.8% | 0.9% | 0.9% | 1.0% | 0.9% |
| Free cash flow ÷ net income | 177.2% | 109.1% | 164.0% | 160.6% | 195.8% | 38.8% | 100.8% | 190.2% | 208.2% | 253.8% | 287.6% |
| Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow | 23.9% | 34.9% | 0.0% | 7.1% | 7.1% | 114.0% | 104.1% | 65.5% | 89.7% | 59.0% | 58.6% |
| Quarter | 2024 Q4Dec 2024 | 2025 Q1Mar 2025 | 2025 Q2Jun 2025 | 2025 Q3Sept 2025 | 2025 Q4Dec 2025 | 2026 Q1Mar 2026 | 2026 Q2Jun 2026 | 2026 Q3Sept 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 29.0% | 28.4% | 28.7% | 29.4% | 28.9% | 27.5% | 28.3% | 28.3% |
| Operating margin | 7.5% | 4.8% | 5.8% | 6.7% | 5.7% | 2.9% | 4.1% | 5.5% |
| Net margin | 4.3% | 2.2% | 2.9% | 3.8% | 2.6% | 0.6% | 1.4% | 2.2% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 9.0% | 0.7% | 11.3% | 7.1% | 9.6% | 0.9% | 4.6% | 4.5% |
| Current ratio | 2.50 | 2.37 | 2.11 | 1.99 | 2.16 | 2.10 | 2.13 | 2.13 |
| Debt to equity | 58.2% | 71.5% | 66.3% | 63.6% | 64.8% | 81.7% | 79.7% | 75.4% |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 20.1% | 22.2% | 21.2% | 21.0% | 21.5% | 23.2% | 22.5% | 21.1% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $996m of assets due within a year against $467m of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $996m short-term assets against $1.7bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $148m of cash against $1.4bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 75% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 55% to 75% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $232m of operating cash flow against $1.4bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $182m against $74m of interest.
Moat
Moderate moat
How hard Everforth'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 12 / 20
Cash operating profit has been a median 9.5% of total assets over 10 years.
- Pricing power 11 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 28.9%, moving by 1.0 percentage points (standard deviation) across 9 years.
- Durability 9 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 7.8%; its worst year was 4.6%.
- Cash conversion 14 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 9 of 9 years, at a median 8.0% of revenue.
- Discipline 20 / 20
The diluted share count fell 22.5% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 1.0% of revenue.
AI disruption exposure: High. In this industry, the core product is information work that AI systems increasingly perform. The score above includes a 15-point deduction for that exposure (66 before it).
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