I3 Verticals, Inc. key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, I3 Verticals, Inc. had return on equity of 4.6% and a net margin of 8.4%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2016Sept 2016 | 2017Sept 2017 | 2018Sept 2018 | 2019Sept 2019 | 2020Sept 2020 | 2021Sept 2021 | 2022Sept 2022 | 2023Sept 2023 | 2024Sept 2024 | 2025Sept 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | −1.0% | 0.3% | −2.1% | −0.8% | −0.3% | −2.0% | −9.1% | −0.4% | 59.3% | 8.4% | 3.9% |
| Return on equity | — | — | −17.6% | −5.1% | −0.4% | −2.5% | −8.1% | −0.4% | 36.8% | 4.6% | 2.5% |
| Return on assets | −2.1% | 0.8% | −4.4% | −1.2% | −0.1% | −0.8% | −2.4% | −0.1% | 14.0% | 2.6% | 1.3% |
| Effective tax rate | — | 16.4% | — | −45.9% | — | — | — | — | — | 48.4% | 29.6% |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 10.2% | 10.4% | 12.5% | 16.7% | 52.2% | 60.2% | 83.4% | 55.9% | 52.7% | 53.8% | 52.2% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $63m of assets due within a year against $53m of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $63m short-term assets against $174m of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $3m of cash against $114m of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 41% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 124% to 41% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $52m of operating cash flow against $114m of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Interest not separately reported. Not assessable.
Moat
Weak moat
How hard I3 Verticals's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 9 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 18 / 20
Cash operating profit has been a median 13.5% of total assets over 6 years.
- Pricing power 11 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 56.2%, moving by 27.5 percentage points (standard deviation) across 5 years.
- Durability 0 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 2.3%; its worst year was -14.8%.
- Cash conversion 17 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 9 of 9 years, at a median 14.8% 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).
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