Legacy Housing Corp key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Legacy Housing Corp had return on equity of 8.2%, an operating margin of 29.4%, debt equal to 0.2% of equity and a current ratio of 3.51. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2018Dec 2018 | 2019Dec 2019 | 2020Dec 2020 | 2021Dec 2021 | 2022Dec 2022 | 2023Dec 2023 | 2024Dec 2024 | 2025Dec 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 33.8% | 37.9% | 37.9% | 42.3% | 41.6% | 47.3% | 51.1% | 48.5% | 49.8% |
| Operating margin | 20.3% | 22.4% | 26.9% | 29.8% | 30.4% | 34.1% | 34.5% | 29.4% | 32.8% |
| Net margin | 13.3% | 17.1% | 21.5% | 25.3% | 26.4% | 28.8% | 33.5% | 25.4% | 28.6% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | −2.0% | −5.0% | −2.6% | 27.5% | −2.1% | −11.2% | 14.5% | 17.1% | 21.5% |
| Return on equity | 11.4% | 14.0% | 15.8% | 17.5% | 19.6% | 13.3% | 13.2% | 8.2% | 9.4% |
| Return on assets | 9.2% | 11.1% | 12.2% | 14.1% | 16.9% | 11.5% | 11.8% | 7.5% | 8.6% |
| Asset turnover | 0.69 | 0.65 | 0.57 | 0.56 | 0.64 | 0.40 | 0.35 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Current ratio | 3.10 | 1.02 | 1.50 | 2.21 | 2.58 | 3.10 | 3.80 | 3.51 | 3.56 |
| Debt to equity | 7.3% | 13.9% | 14.0% | 2.6% | 0.7% | 5.4% | 0.4% | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest) | 13.1x | 53.9x | 45.2x | 66.4x | — | 69.4x | 92.3x | — | — |
| Effective tax rate | 29.8% | 23.3% | 22.2% | 17.7% | 17.5% | 20.8% | 18.9% | 18.9% | 15.3% |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 13.0% | 15.1% | 10.8% | 11.8% | 10.7% | 12.8% | 12.1% | 18.0% | 16.4% |
| Capital spending as % of revenue | 3.8% | 2.5% | 1.6% | 3.0% | 1.5% | 4.1% | 5.0% | 5.5% | 6.7% |
| Free cash flow ÷ net income | −15.4% | −29.1% | −12.3% | 109.0% | −8.1% | −39.0% | 43.4% | 67.3% | 75.3% |
| Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow | — | — | — | — | — | — | 20.2% | 27.0% | 4.6% |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | 51.7% | 50.8% | 51.8% | 48.3% | 43.3% | 51.0% | 56.5% | 49.5% |
| Operating margin | 34.6% | 28.6% | 32.5% | 33.5% | 24.0% | 26.9% | 36.1% | 39.9% |
| Net margin | 35.7% | 26.8% | 28.8% | 29.3% | 21.4% | 21.4% | 31.8% | 35.4% |
| Free-cash-flow margin | 20.6% | 11.1% | 10.2% | 7.4% | 12.7% | 41.0% | 15.8% | 18.6% |
| Current ratio | 3.47 | 3.80 | 3.91 | 3.93 | 5.74 | 3.51 | 3.59 | 3.56 |
| SG&A as % of revenue | 13.7% | 8.8% | 17.9% | 11.4% | 18.1% | 24.5% | 17.0% | 10.4% |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $181m of assets due within a year against $51m of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $181m short-term assets against $2m of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt Cash or debt not separately reported. Not assessable.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Equity or debt not reported. Not assessable.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Five-year comparison not available. Not assessable.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt Cash flow or debt not reported. Not assessable.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $59m against $38,000 of interest.
Moat
Moderate moat
How hard Legacy Housing's competitive advantage looks for rivals to wear away, judged from 8 years of its own filings: returns on capital, pricing power, profit durability, cash conversion and discipline.
- Returns on capital 16 / 20
Cash operating profit has been a median 12.1% of total assets over 7 years.
- Pricing power 11 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 42.2%, moving by 5.5 percentage points (standard deviation) across 8 years.
- Durability 20 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 30.8%; its worst year was 21.6%.
- Cash conversion 5 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 4 of 8 years, at a median -0.1% of revenue.
- Discipline 18 / 20
The diluted share count fell 2.7% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.4% 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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