Huron Consulting Group Inc. key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, Huron Consulting Group Inc. had return on equity of 19.3%, an operating margin of 10.5%, debt equal to 96.7% of equity and a current ratio of 1.17. 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.

Huron Consulting Group Inc.: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year	2009Dec 2009	2010Dec 2010	2011Dec 2011	2012Dec 2012	2013Dec 2013	2014Dec 2014	2015Dec 2015	2016Dec 2016	2017Dec 2017	2018Dec 2018	2019Dec 2019	2020Dec 2020	2021Dec 2021	2022Dec 2022	2023Dec 2023	2024Dec 2024	2025Dec 2025	LTMJun 2026
Gross margin	36.1%	34.8%	34.2%	34.8%	35.2%	34.0%	36.5%	34.3%	33.0%	30.7%	30.6%	28.3%	28.6%	—	—	—	—	—
Operating margin	7.5%	6.2%	8.4%	10.8%	14.9%	12.6%	13.5%	9.3%	−25.7%	5.9%	6.6%	−3.3%	5.7%	8.6%	9.0%	11.1%	10.5%	10.3%
Net margin	−5.8%	1.5%	3.1%	5.3%	11.0%	11.3%	7.7%	4.7%	−21.1%	1.6%	4.3%	−2.7%	6.8%	6.5%	4.5%	7.7%	6.2%	6.4%
Free-cash-flow margin	17.8%	7.4%	14.4%	12.4%	15.8%	17.2%	19.4%	14.4%	9.3%	10.6%	12.3%	14.8%	0.8%	6.3%	9.0%	12.7%	10.8%	8.9%
Return on equity	−10.1%	2.5%	5.5%	8.7%	13.6%	14.0%	9.4%	5.8%	−29.6%	2.6%	7.4%	−4.2%	11.2%	13.4%	11.5%	21.3%	19.3%	25.3%
Return on assets	−4.4%	1.1%	2.6%	4.6%	7.9%	7.7%	5.1%	3.3%	−15.5%	1.3%	3.9%	−2.2%	5.8%	6.5%	5.1%	9.0%	7.3%	7.3%
Asset turnover	0.75	0.72	0.84	0.87	0.72	0.69	0.66	0.69	0.74	0.84	0.90	0.81	0.85	1.00	1.14	1.17	1.18	1.14
Current ratio	1.00	1.21	1.25	1.72	1.57	2.76	1.74	1.33	1.37	0.56	1.10	1.23	1.26	1.34	1.32	1.21	1.17	1.71
Debt to equity	67.0%	73.8%	48.8%	43.2%	31.8%	59.4%	47.1%	45.1%	68.1%	54.9%	35.7%	36.8%	40.7%	52.5%	60.8%	63.7%	96.7%	216.8%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)	—	—	—	—	—	25.5x	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Effective tax rate	57.8%	63.9%	50.2%	45.2%	38.4%	41.3%	25.9%	33.3%	—	44.7%	20.0%	—	21.3%	30.4%	25.5%	24.3%	22.2%	25.9%
SG&A as % of revenue	20.4%	20.0%	18.1%	18.4%	19.4%	18.9%	20.5%	20.1%	21.7%	20.6%	21.0%	19.6%	19.2%	18.1%	18.4%	18.8%	18.7%	18.5%
Capital spending as % of revenue	2.2%	1.5%	2.2%	2.6%	3.4%	3.7%	2.4%	1.7%	3.0%	1.0%	1.4%	0.9%	1.2%	1.1%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	1.0%
Free cash flow ÷ net income	—	487.4%	461.4%	232.9%	143.1%	152.5%	252.8%	306.5%	—	679.5%	285.0%	—	11.3%	96.4%	201.4%	165.2%	174.2%	139.3%
Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0%	10.9%	21.1%	908.0%	165.3%	97.6%	63.8%	91.1%	148.5%

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal quarters.

Huron Consulting Group Inc.: financial ratios, quarterly
Quarter	2024 Q3Sept 2024	2024 Q4Dec 2024	2025 Q1Mar 2025	2025 Q2Jun 2025	2025 Q3Sept 2025	2025 Q4Dec 2025	2026 Q1Mar 2026	2026 Q2Jun 2026
Operating margin	11.2%	11.8%	8.1%	11.1%	11.3%	11.4%	8.1%	10.6%
Net margin	7.2%	8.5%	6.1%	4.7%	6.9%	6.9%	5.1%	6.6%
Free-cash-flow margin	21.9%	34.3%	−26.9%	18.9%	20.3%	28.0%	−37.2%	24.3%
Current ratio	1.61	1.21	2.08	1.99	1.44	1.17	2.22	1.71
Debt to equity	84.5%	63.5%	116.4%	138.3%	122.0%	96.4%	215.1%	216.4%
SG&A as % of revenue	18.6%	18.1%	19.0%	19.5%	18.4%	18.1%	18.8%	18.9%

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 · June 30, 2026

What it owns · $1.6bn

Short-term assets $530mLonger-term assets $1.1bn

What it owes, and who funded it · $695m

Short-term liabilities $310mShareholders' equity $385m

Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $530m of assets due within a year against $310m 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 $833m of debt.
Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 216% of equity.
Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 41% to 216% over five years.
A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $178m of operating cash flow against $833m of debt.
Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Interest not separately reported. Not assessable.

From Huron Consulting 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

42 /100

Weak moat

How hard Huron Consulting 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 12 / 20

Cash operating profit has been a median 9.6% of total assets over 10 years.
Pricing power 11 / 20

Gross margin has been a median 33.5%, moving by 2.7 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
Durability 1 / 20

Operating margin has been a median 6.6%; its worst year was -19.2%.
Cash conversion 14 / 20

Free cash flow was positive in 10 of 10 years, at a median 8.6% of revenue.
Discipline 19 / 20

The diluted share count fell 21.3% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 2.5% 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 (57 before it).

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 Huron Consulting Group Inc.'s SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 26, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Huron Consulting Group Inc.