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Ensign Group, Inc key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, Ensign Group, Inc had return on equity of 16.9%, an operating margin of 8.4%, debt equal to 6.5% of equity and a current ratio of 1.42. 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.

Fiscal year2016Dec 20162017Dec 20172018Dec 20182019Dec 20192020Dec 20202021Dec 20212022Dec 20222023Dec 20232024Dec 20242025Dec 2025LTMSept 2026
Gross margin18.9%17.8%19.2%20.4%22.4%23.1%22.2%21.1%20.7%20.5%21.2%
Operating margin5.6%2.7%4.8%6.3%9.3%9.9%9.8%6.8%8.4%8.4%9.0%
Net margin3.0%2.5%5.3%5.4%7.1%7.4%7.4%5.6%7.0%6.8%7.0%
Free-cash-flow margin0.5%1.6%9.1%5.9%15.5%10.5%9.0%10.1%8.1%11.2%12.3%
Return on equity11.0%8.5%16.7%17.5%23.2%21.2%19.8%15.3%17.9%16.9%16.7%
Return on assets5.0%3.8%5.6%4.8%6.9%7.2%7.1%5.5%6.7%6.8%7.0%
Asset turnover1.651.521.060.890.980.970.960.980.961.000.99
Current ratio1.581.631.291.201.041.221.341.421.561.421.20
Debt to equity62.3%64.2%39.8%50.5%14.4%15.7%12.5%10.2%8.1%6.5%7.8%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)12.9x3.2x5.6x8.2x23.8x38.0x33.2x31.6x43.2x53.2x62.8x
Effective tax rate38.4%45.6%17.7%20.6%21.3%23.4%22.3%23.1%22.7%24.4%25.0%
Capital spending as % of revenue4.0%3.4%2.9%3.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%
Free cash flow ÷ net income16.4%62.9%172.6%109.2%219.0%141.6%121.3%179.9%116.5%164.0%174.3%
Dividends ÷ net income16.3%21.5%10.2%9.2%6.4%5.9%5.4%6.2%4.6%4.2%3.8%
Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow466.1%62.9%5.9%13.8%9.6%7.9%15.4%3.4%3.9%6.1%9.0%

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

6 of 7 checks passed · September 30, 2026
What it owns · $6.0bn
Short-term assets $1.2bnLonger-term assets $4.8bn
What it owes, and who funded it · $6.0bn
Short-term liabilities $963mLonger-term liabilities $2.5bnShareholders' equity $2.6bn
  • Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $1.2bn of assets due within a year against $963m of liabilities due within a year.
  • Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $1.2bn short-term assets against $2.5bn of longer-dated liabilities.
  • More cash than debt $338m of cash against $199m of debt.
  • Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 8% of equity.
  • Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 14% to 8% over five years.
  • A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $696m of operating cash flow against $199m of debt.
  • Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $509m against $8m of interest.

From Ensign Group, 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

55 /100

Moderate moat

How hard Ensign Group'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 8 / 20

    Net income has been a median 6.2% of total assets over 10 years.

  • Pricing power 8 / 20

    Gross margin has been a median 21.2%, moving by 1.3 percentage points (standard deviation) across 9 years.

  • Durability 9 / 20

    Operating margin has been a median 8.6%; its worst year was 4.7%.

  • Cash conversion 14 / 20

    Free cash flow was positive in 9 of 9 years, at a median 7.9% of revenue.

  • Discipline 15 / 20

    The diluted share count rose 4.6% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.7% 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 Ensign Group, 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 Ensign Group, Inc.