Post Financial Ratios
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At close: Oct 9, 4:00 PM ET · Delayed 15 min
Post ratio analysis
Post earned a net margin of 4.1% in FY 2024, down from 4.6% a year earlier. Gross margin was 28.7% compared with a median of 29.6% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 8.9%, meaning Post generated 0.09 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 1.98 versus 1.67 the year before, and the current ratio was 1.67. At the end of FY 2024, POST traded at 19.5 times earnings; across the 9 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 6.8 to 5805.0, with a median of 20.3. 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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Post financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2024 | 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) | 19.47 | 20.30 | 17.79 | 6.78 | 30.58 | 5,804.97 | 40.62 | 10.42 | 115.54 | — |
| Price / sales | 0.74 | 0.87 | 0.74 | 0.85 | 0.94 | 0.85 | 0.84 | 0.68 | 0.75 | 0.69 |
| Price / book | 1.60 | 1.68 | 1.34 | 1.53 | 1.70 | 1.40 | 1.63 | 1.40 | 1.41 | 1.15 |
| Gross margin | 28.7% | 29.1% | 26.9% | 25.1% | 28.7% | 30.8% | 31.5% | 29.6% | 30.1% | 30.8% |
| Operating margin | 9.8% | 10.0% | 8.6% | 7.1% | 9.8% | 11.4% | 13.7% | 9.2% | 9.9% | 10.9% |
| Net margin | 4.1% | 4.6% | 4.3% | 12.9% | 3.3% | 0.0% | 2.2% | 7.5% | 0.9% | -0.1% |
| Free cash flow margin | 6.0% | 6.3% | 6.4% | 2.2% | 8.0% | 8.3% | 7.3% | 7.9% | 3.8% | 7.6% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 8.9% | 9.0% | 7.8% | 23.3% | 6.1% | 0.0% | 4.3% | 15.3% | 1.7% | -0.1% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 2.5% | 2.9% | 2.6% | 6.7% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 1.0% | 3.6% | 0.4% | -0.0% |
| Debt / equity | 1.98 | 1.67 | 1.57 | 1.83 | 2.35 | 2.46 | 2.42 | 2.38 | 2.58 | 1.52 |
| Current ratio | 1.67 | 2.36 | 1.84 | 2.70 | 1.99 | 2.35 | 2.65 | 2.78 | 3.71 | 3.28 |
| Revenue growth | 3.0% | 13.3% | 19.5% | 17.5% | 5.7% | -17.1% | -9.2% | 19.7% | 4.0% | 8.1% |
| EPS growth | -2.3% | 17.0% | -60.1% | 408.0% | 23,700.0% | -99.4% | -73.1% | 1,132.0% | — | — |