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EACO

Industrials · fiscal year ending 2025-08-31 · pays no dividend

Through the investors’ lenses

2 of 2 cleared7 of 7 criteria

Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.

Warren Buffett 4/4
MeasureEACOChecked against
Owner earnings$32.69mpositive
Return on equity20.7%US median 2.8%
Debt to equity0.03xUS median 0.57x
Operating margin9.8%US median 3.1%

Passes 4 of 4. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to EACO’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Benjamin Graham 3/3
MeasureEACOChecked against
Current ratio2.82x2.00x published
Long-term debt to working capital0.03x1.00x published
Positive earnings, ten years running10 yrs10 published

Passes 3 of 3. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to EACO’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

The business

MeasureEACOMedianFormula
Return on equity20.7%2.8%Net income ÷ shareholders’ equity
Return on capital employed26.1%5.1%Operating income ÷ (equity + total debt)
Owner earnings$32.69m$1.09mNet income + depreciation & amortisation − capital expenditure
Free cash flow$15.88m$7.57mOperating cash flow − capital expenditure
Operating margin9.8%3.1%Operating income ÷ revenue
Net margin7.5%2.0%Net income ÷ revenue
Debt to equity0.03x0.57xTotal debt ÷ shareholders’ equity
Interest cover205.11x1.01xOperating income ÷ interest expense
Current ratio2.82x1.69xCurrent assets ÷ current liabilities
Long-term debt to working capital0.03x1.09xLong-term debt ÷ (current assets − current liabilities)
Cash conversion0.53x1.58xOperating cash flow ÷ net income
Accruals6.6%-4.7%(Net income − operating cash flow) ÷ total assets

Ten years of it

The same measures, for every year the filings support. One year is a fact; a row is a business.

Measure2025202420232022202120202019201820172016Median
Return on equity20.7%12.1%19.5%24.3%12.5%13.2%18.4%16.6%11.6%13.3%13.3%
Return on capital employed26.1%16.7%24.3%32.0%17.7%16.4%22.7%20.6%13.4%20.9%20.6%
Operating margin9.8%6.0%8.6%10.1%5.3%4.6%5.9%5.3%4.0%4.3%5.3%
Net margin7.5%4.2%6.6%7.3%3.5%3.5%4.3%3.6%2.6%2.8%3.6%
Debt to equity0.03x0.04x0.04x0.05x0.07x0.08x0.12x0.20x0.35x0.00x0.05x
Current ratio2.82x2.54x3.32x2.97x2.92x2.50x2.26x2.43x2.90x2.45x2.54x
Cash conversion0.53x0.94x0.63x0.80x1.05x0.36x-0.10x0.72x-1.11x-0.27x0.53x

This company pays no dividend, so there is no payout ratio to compute and no coverage rating. Every figure above comes from its own SEC filing. How these are computed.

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