Cabot Financial Ratios
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Cabot ratio analysis
Cabot earned a net margin of 8.9% in FY 2025, down from 9.5% a year earlier. Gross margin was 25.3% compared with a median of 23.4% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 21.4%, meaning Cabot generated 0.21 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.73 versus 0.80 the year before, and the current ratio was 1.61. At the end of FY 2025, CBT traded at 12.5 times earnings; across the 8 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 9.0 to 22.6, with a median of 15.4. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Cabot financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 12.49 | 16.44 | 8.96 | 17.65 | 11.91 | — | 16.62 | — | 14.27 | 22.59 |
| Price / sales | 1.09 | 1.52 | 0.99 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.82 | 0.77 | 1.19 | 1.28 | 1.36 |
| Price / book | 2.60 | 4.27 | 3.07 | 4.02 | 3.09 | 3.11 | 2.57 | 3.35 | 2.31 | 2.57 |
| Gross margin | 25.3% | 24.0% | 21.3% | 20.5% | 23.4% | 19.1% | 20.5% | 23.8% | 24.2% | 23.8% |
| Operating margin | 16.7% | 15.4% | 13.4% | 9.0% | 13.3% | 0.8% | 9.2% | 4.4% | 12.4% | 10.2% |
| Net margin | 8.9% | 9.5% | 11.3% | 4.8% | 7.3% | -9.1% | 4.7% | -3.5% | 9.1% | 6.1% |
| Free cash flow margin | 10.5% | 11.3% | 8.9% | -2.6% | 1.8% | 6.8% | 4.2% | 2.1% | 7.4% | 11.6% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 21.4% | 26.7% | 35.2% | 23.3% | 26.4% | -34.4% | 15.7% | -9.8% | 16.5% | 11.5% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 8.7% | 10.2% | 12.3% | 5.9% | 7.6% | -8.6% | 5.2% | -3.5% | 7.4% | 4.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.73 | 0.80 | 1.01 | 1.61 | 1.23 | 1.61 | 1.07 | 0.87 | 0.61 | 0.72 |
| Current ratio | 1.61 | 2.08 | 1.98 | 1.65 | 1.24 | 1.85 | 2.02 | 1.46 | 1.75 | 2.64 |
| Revenue growth | -7.0% | 1.6% | -9.0% | 26.8% | 30.4% | -21.7% | 2.9% | 19.3% | 12.7% | -16.0% |
| EPS growth | -10.4% | -13.1% | 113.5% | -16.6% | — | -260.1% | — | -147.3% | 68.5% | — |