Construction Partners, Inc. key statistics and ratios
In fiscal 2025, Construction Partners, Inc. had return on equity of 13.7% and a net margin of 3.6%. Each ratio below is calculated from the figures on its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow pages.
Financial ratios
| Fiscal year | 2017Sept 2017 | 2018Sept 2018 | 2019Sept 2019 | 2020Sept 2020 | 2021Sept 2021 | 2022Sept 2022 | 2023Sept 2023 | 2024Sept 2024 | 2025Sept 2025 | LTMJun 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 4.6% | 7.5% | 5.5% | 5.1% | 2.2% | 1.6% | 3.1% | 3.8% | 3.6% | 4.1% |
| Return on equity | 17.1% | 22.5% | 13.4% | 10.8% | 5.0% | 4.9% | 10.1% | 12.6% | 13.7% | 14.6% |
| Return on assets | 7.9% | 12.3% | 8.4% | 6.9% | 2.8% | 2.2% | 4.2% | 5.0% | 4.3% | 4.2% |
| Effective tax rate | 36.1% | 17.5% | 25.0% | 24.3% | 29.3% | 24.4% | 25.1% | 25.1% | 24.3% | 24.6% |
| Dividends ÷ net income | 120.2% | 0.0% | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Financial health
- Short-term assets cover short-term liabilities $961m of assets due within a year against $614m of liabilities due within a year.
- Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities $961m short-term assets against $2.0bn of longer-dated liabilities.
- More cash than debt $95m of cash against $1.8bn of debt.
- Debt below 40% of shareholders' equity Debt is 172% of equity.
- Debt burden no higher than five years ago Debt to equity moved from 66% to 172% over five years.
- A year's operating cash flow covers at least 20% of debt $353m of operating cash flow against $1.8bn of debt.
- Operating profit covers interest at least five times over Operating income of $298m against $109m of interest.
Moat
Weak moat
How hard Construction Partners'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 4 / 20
Net income has been a median 3.9% of total assets over 9 years.
- Pricing power 8 / 20
Gross margin has been a median 14.8%, moving by 1.7 percentage points (standard deviation) across 9 years.
- Durability 5 / 20
Operating margin has been a median 6.7%; its worst year was 2.2%.
- Cash conversion 10 / 20
Free cash flow was positive in 8 of 9 years, at a median 2.5% of revenue.
- Discipline 14 / 20
The diluted share count rose 8.5% over five years; stock-based pay has been a median 0.6% 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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