Post Holdings, Inc. key statistics and ratios

In fiscal 2025, Post Holdings, Inc. had return on equity of 8.6%, an operating margin of 9.8%, debt equal to 198.6% of equity and a current ratio of 1.67. 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.

Post Holdings, Inc.: financial ratios, annual
Fiscal year	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
Gross margin	44.4%	46.6%	44.7%	41.1%	25.8%	25.3%	30.8%	30.1%	29.6%	31.5%	30.8%	28.7%	25.1%	26.9%	29.1%	28.7%	28.8%
Operating margin	19.1%	−38.1%	14.5%	10.4%	−8.6%	4.6%	10.9%	9.9%	9.2%	13.7%	11.4%	9.8%	7.1%	8.6%	10.0%	9.8%	9.6%
Net margin	9.2%	−43.8%	5.2%	1.5%	−14.2%	−2.5%	−0.1%	0.9%	7.5%	2.2%	0.0%	3.3%	12.9%	4.3%	4.6%	4.1%	3.5%
Free-cash-flow margin	11.2%	13.3%	11.8%	8.4%	2.8%	7.4%	7.6%	3.8%	7.9%	7.3%	8.3%	8.0%	2.2%	6.4%	6.3%	6.0%	6.6%
Return on equity	4.5%	−24.3%	3.7%	1.1%	−18.2%	−4.4%	−0.1%	1.7%	16.0%	4.2%	0.0%	6.0%	25.2%	8.5%	9.2%	8.6%	8.6%
Return on assets	—	−15.6%	1.8%	0.5%	−6.2%	−1.4%	−0.0%	0.5%	3.7%	1.0%	0.0%	1.4%	6.4%	2.6%	3.0%	2.5%	2.2%
Asset turnover	—	0.36	0.35	0.33	0.43	0.55	0.54	0.49	0.50	0.45	0.39	0.41	0.49	0.61	0.65	0.62	0.64
Current ratio	—	1.01	1.66	4.58	2.34	2.90	3.28	3.71	2.78	2.65	2.35	1.99	2.70	1.84	2.36	1.67	1.85
Debt to equity	0.0%	0.0%	76.8%	94.0%	168.9%	150.7%	152.9%	259.4%	239.1%	243.3%	247.0%	235.1%	183.4%	157.5%	167.3%	198.6%	249.4%
Interest cover (operating income ÷ interest)	3.7x	n/m	2.3x	1.3x	n/m	0.8x	1.8x	1.6x	1.5x	2.4x	1.6x	1.5x	1.3x	2.1x	2.5x	2.2x	1.9x
Effective tax rate	35.0%	—	37.9%	31.8%	—	—	—	35.1%	—	−2.5%	—	27.2%	9.6%	24.1%	22.3%	24.5%	25.5%
R&D as % of revenue	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	—
SG&A as % of revenue	22.0%	24.7%	28.6%	28.8%	19.1%	15.8%	16.7%	16.6%	15.6%	16.0%	16.6%	16.2%	15.5%	15.4%	16.8%	16.0%	16.2%
Capital spending as % of revenue	2.4%	1.5%	3.2%	3.2%	4.8%	2.3%	2.4%	3.6%	3.6%	4.8%	4.9%	3.8%	4.4%	4.3%	5.4%	6.3%	5.2%
Free cash flow ÷ net income	121.0%	—	226.7%	568.4%	—	—	—	406.4%	105.6%	332.1%	>999%	238.3%	16.8%	148.5%	137.0%	145.4%	188.7%
Dividends and buybacks ÷ free cash flow	0.0%	0.0%	47.2%	0.0%	21.3%	5.0%	3.8%	161.9%	44.3%	77.8%	149.9%	99.9%	348.0%	86.5%	59.9%	145.3%	215.3%

US$ thousands unless shown otherwise. Fiscal quarters.

Post Holdings, Inc.: financial ratios, quarterly
Quarter	2024 Q4Sept 2024	2025 Q1Dec 2024	2025 Q2Mar 2025	2025 Q3Jun 2025	2025 Q4Sept 2025	2026 Q1Dec 2025	2026 Q2Mar 2026	2026 Q3Jun 2026
Gross margin	28.6%	30.1%	28.0%	30.0%	26.8%	29.4%	30.2%	29.1%
Operating margin	9.5%	10.8%	9.3%	11.8%	7.5%	11.0%	10.4%	9.7%
Net margin	4.1%	5.7%	3.2%	5.5%	2.3%	4.5%	4.0%	3.3%
Free-cash-flow margin	4.8%	8.7%	3.6%	4.8%	6.7%	5.5%	7.4%	6.7%
Current ratio	2.36	2.39	2.13	2.60	1.67	1.90	1.85	1.85
Debt to equity	166.5%	178.7%	181.3%	183.9%	197.8%	215.8%	238.9%	248.0%
SG&A as % of revenue	17.0%	16.8%	16.1%	15.7%	15.6%	16.4%	16.0%	16.7%

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 7 checks passed · June 30, 2026

What it owns · $12.9bn

Short-term assets $2.0bnLonger-term assets $10.9bn

What it owes, and who funded it · $12.8bn

Short-term liabilities $1.1bnLonger-term liabilities $8.7bnShareholders' equity $3.1bn

Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $2.0bn of assets due within a year against $1.1bn of liabilities due within a year.
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $2.0bn short-term assets against $8.7bn of longer-dated liabilities.
More cash than debt $266m of cash against $7.6bn of debt.
Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 248% of equity.
Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 290% to 248% over five years.
A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $993m of operating cash flow against $7.6bn of debt.
Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $808m against $419m of interest.

From Post Holdings, 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

61 /100

Moderate moat

How hard Post Holdings'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 6 / 20

Cash operating profit has been a median 5.8% of total assets over 10 years.
Pricing power 11 / 20

Gross margin has been a median 29.5%, moving by 2.0 percentage points (standard deviation) across 10 years.
Durability 11 / 20

Operating margin has been a median 9.9%; its worst year was 6.5%.
Cash conversion 13 / 20

Free cash flow was positive in 10 of 10 years, at a median 6.1% of revenue.
Discipline 20 / 20

The diluted share count fell 13.9% 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.

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 Post Holdings, Inc.'s SEC filings (10-K and 10-Q), retrieved October 20, 2026. How we read and check them: methodology and data sources. Not investment advice. Back to Post Holdings, Inc.