Esco Technologies Inc key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Esco Technologies Inc had return on equity of 21.5% and a net margin of 27.3%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2009Sept 2009 | 2010Sept 2010 | 2011Sept 2011 | 2012Sept 2012 | 2013Sept 2013 | 2014Sept 2014 | 2015Sept 2015 | 2016Sept 2016 | 2017Sept 2017 | 2018Sept 2018 | 2019Sept 2019 | 2020Sept 2020 | 2021Sept 2021 | 2022Sept 2022 | 2023Sept 2023 | 2024Sept 2024 | 2025Sept 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 8.0% | 7.4% | 11.6% | 9.8% | −5.2% | 0.1% | 7.9% | 8.0% | 7.8% | 11.9% | 11.2% | 13.6% | 8.9% | 9.6% | 10.8% | 11.1% | 27.3% | 24.4% |
| Return on equity | 9.6% | 8.4% | 9.1% | 7.6% | −4.2% | 0.1% | 7.3% | 7.7% | 8.3% | 12.9% | 10.2% | 11.1% | 6.4% | 8.0% | 8.5% | 8.6% | 21.5% | 19.9% |
| Return on assets | 5.3% | 4.7% | 5.3% | 4.6% | −2.4% | 0.0% | 5.0% | 5.0% | 4.8% | 7.3% | 5.9% | 7.0% | 4.3% | 5.1% | 5.5% | 5.8% | 14.1% | 13.0% |
| Effective tax rate | 22.0% | 35.6% | 31.3% | 33.4% | 37.0% | 31.5% | 32.2% | 32.9% | 33.0% | −6.4% | 20.8% | 37.1% | 21.3% | 22.7% | 22.4% | 21.6% | 23.9% | 22.3% |
| R&D as % of revenue | 5.6% | 6.0% | 5.2% | 4.9% | 5.7% | 5.4% | 3.4% | 2.1% | 2.0% | 1.4% | 1.7% | 1.8% | 2.2% | 1.4% | 1.5% | 1.3% | 2.1% | — |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 24.6% | 25.9% | 27.3% | 26.8% | 26.5% | 25.4% | 24.2% | 23.0% | 21.6% | 19.8% | 22.4% | 21.8% | 23.4% | 22.8% | 23.8% | 22.7% | 21.4% | 20.0% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | — | 14.1% | 16.3% | 18.2% | — | >999% | 19.7% | 18.0% | 15.4% | 9.0% | 10.2% | 8.4% | 13.1% | 10.0% | 8.9% | 8.1% | 2.8% | 2.6% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $756m of assets due within a year against $547m of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $756m short-term assets against $256m of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $73m of cash against $85m of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 5% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 18% to 5% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $244m of operating cash flow against $85m of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Interest not separately reported. Not assessable.
Moat
Moderate moat
How hard Esco Technologies'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
Cash operating profit has been a median 8.6% of total assets over 10 years.
- Pricing power 12 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 38.9%, moving by 4.2 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
- Durability 6 / 20
Net margin has been a median 10.9%; its worst year was 3.0%.
- Cash conversion 15 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 10 of 10 years, at a median 9.4% of revenue.
- Discipline 17 / 20
The diluted share count fell 0.9% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.9% 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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