Intuit key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2026, Intuit had return on equity of 23.6%, an operating margin of 27.4%, debt equal to 40.6% of equity and a current ratio of 1.51. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2010Jul 2010 | 2011Jul 2011 | 2012Jul 2012 | 2013Jul 2013 | 2014Jul 2014 | 2015Jul 2015 | 2016Jul 2016 | 2017Jul 2017 | 2018Jul 2018 | 2019Jul 2019 | 2020Jul 2020 | 2021Jul 2021 | 2022Jul 2022 | 2023Jul 2023 | 2024Jul 2024 | 2025Jul 2025 | 2026Jul 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 26.6% | 31.4% | 30.7% | 30.6% | 30.6% | 17.6% | 26.5% | 27.3% | 25.9% | 27.3% | 28.3% | 26.0% | 20.2% | 21.9% | 22.3% | 26.1% | 27.4% |
| Net margin | 16.9% | 18.4% | 20.8% | 21.7% | 21.4% | 8.7% | 20.9% | 19.0% | 22.1% | 23.0% | 23.8% | 21.4% | 16.2% | 16.6% | 18.2% | 20.5% | 21.3% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 27.2% | 26.1% | 29.2% | 31.3% | 31.6% | 34.5% | 22.2% | 28.8% | 34.4% | 33.1% | 30.7% | 33.2% | 29.3% | 33.7% | 28.8% | 32.5% | 40.4% |
| Return on equity | 20.3% | 23.3% | 29.6% | 27.3% | 27.4% | 13.5% | 51.2% | 61.7% | 58.9% | 47.4% | 41.2% | 27.5% | 15.7% | 14.1% | 16.6% | 20.3% | 23.6% |
| Return on assets | 11.0% | 12.3% | 16.2% | 16.9% | 17.0% | 7.2% | 21.2% | 23.7% | 28.9% | 27.3% | 21.2% | 15.6% | 9.6% | 8.6% | 9.9% | 11.2% | 12.4% |
| Asset turnover | 0.65 | 0.67 | 0.78 | 0.78 | 0.79 | 0.82 | 1.02 | 1.25 | 1.31 | 1.19 | 0.89 | 0.73 | 0.59 | 0.52 | 0.54 | 0.55 | 0.58 |
| Current ratio | 1.88 | 1.25 | 1.20 | 1.87 | 1.84 | 1.47 | 0.72 | 0.73 | 1.39 | 1.83 | 2.26 | 1.94 | 1.39 | 1.47 | 1.29 | 1.36 | 1.51 |
| Debt to equity | 35.4% | 38.2% | 18.2% | 14.1% | 16.2% | 21.4% | 34.3% | 25.8% | 13.8% | 11.6% | 66.0% | 20.8% | 42.2% | 35.5% | 33.0% | 30.5% | 40.6% |
| Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest) | 14.8x | 18.0x | 23.4x | 40.3x | 41.9x | 27.3x | 35.5x | 45.7x | 78.0x | 123.6x | 155.4x | 86.2x | 31.7x | 12.7x | 15.0x | 19.9x | 23.0x |
| Effective tax rate | 34.1% | 34.0% | 32.9% | 31.9% | 34.4% | 42.0% | 33.0% | 29.1% | 15.1% | 17.2% | 16.9% | 19.3% | 18.7% | 20.2% | 16.5% | 20.0% | 24.1% |
| R&D as % of revenue | 16.6% | 16.4% | 16.2% | 16.4% | 16.8% | 19.0% | 18.8% | 19.2% | 19.7% | 18.2% | 18.1% | 17.4% | 18.4% | 17.7% | 16.9% | 15.5% | 15.7% |
| Capital spending as % of revenue | 2.2% | 3.3% | 3.5% | 3.3% | 2.5% | 3.4% | 8.9% | 2.0% | 0.6% | 1.1% | 0.8% | 0.6% | 1.2% | 1.5% | 1.2% | 0.4% | 0.8% |
| Free cash flow ÷ net income | 161.0% | 141.8% | 140.3% | 144.2% | 148.0% | 396.4% | 106.6% | 152.0% | 156.1% | 144.4% | 129.0% | 155.0% | 180.6% | 202.9% | 158.4% | 158.3% | 189.7% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 0.0% | 0.0% | 22.5% | 23.7% | 24.3% | 77.5% | 32.5% | 35.8% | 30.6% | 32.2% | 30.7% | 31.3% | 37.5% | 37.3% | 34.9% | 30.7% | 29.5% |
| Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow | 97.4% | 151.3% | 97.0% | 40.0% | 133.9% | 105.6% | 247.3% | 79.6% | 32.7% | 47.0% | 37.5% | 51.6% | 70.6% | 59.1% | 64.4% | 64.7% | 78.0% |
| Quarter | 2025 Q1Oct 2024 | 2025 Q2Jan 2025 | 2025 Q3Apr 2025 | 2025 Q4Jul 2025 | 2026 Q1Oct 2025 | 2026 Q2Jan 2026 | 2026 Q3Apr 2026 | 2026 Q4Jul 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 8.3% | 15.0% | 48.0% | 8.8% | 13.7% | 18.4% | 47.0% | 10.9% |
| Net margin | 6.0% | 11.9% | 36.4% | 9.9% | 11.5% | 14.9% | 35.8% | 8.3% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 10.0% | 26.2% | 56.2% | 10.3% | 15.4% | 32.8% | 61.2% | 29.9% |
| Current ratio | 1.24 | 1.27 | 1.45 | 1.36 | 1.39 | 1.32 | 1.45 | 1.51 |
| Debt to equity | 33.8% | 34.9% | 31.8% | 30.3% | 31.8% | 32.3% | 29.9% | 40.4% |
| R&D as % of revenue | 21.4% | 18.1% | 9.1% | 20.9% | 21.7% | 18.0% | 9.8% | 19.7% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $15.3bn of assets due within a year against $10.2bn of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $15.3bn short-term assets against $7.6bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $4.7bn of cash against $7.7bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 40% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 43% to 40% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $8.8bn of operating cash flow against $7.7bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $5.9bn against $256m of interest.
Moat
Moderate moat
How hard Intuit'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 20 / 20
Cash operating profit has been a median 15.2% of total assets over 10 years.
- Pricing power 19 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 77.3%, moving by 3.3 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
- Durability 18 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 26.0%; its worst year was 20.2%.
- Cash conversion 20 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 10 of 10 years, at a median 33.2% of revenue.
- Discipline 7 / 20
The diluted share count rose 1.5% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 9.6% 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 (84 before it).
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