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GOGO

Gogo

Communications · fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 · pays no dividend

Through the investors’ lenses

0 of 2 cleared3 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 3/4
MeasureGOGOChecked against
Owner earnings$13.82mpositive
Return on equity12.8%US median 2.8%
Debt to equity8.27xUS median 0.57x
Operating margin12.5%US median 3.1%

Passes 3 of 4. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to Gogo’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Benjamin Graham 0/3
MeasureGOGOChecked against
Current ratio1.60x2.00x published
Long-term debt to working capital5.12x1.00x published
Positive earnings, ten years running5 yrs10 published

Passes 0 of 3. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to Gogo’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

The business

MeasureGOGOMedianFormula
Return on equity12.8%2.8%Net income ÷ shareholders’ equity
Return on capital employed12.2%5.1%Operating income ÷ (equity + total debt)
Owner earnings$13.82m$1.09mNet income + depreciation & amortisation − capital expenditure
Free cash flow$65.11m$7.57mOperating cash flow − capital expenditure
Operating margin12.5%3.1%Operating income ÷ revenue
Net margin1.4%2.0%Net income ÷ revenue
Debt to equity8.27x0.57xTotal debt ÷ shareholders’ equity
Interest cover1.67x1.01xOperating income ÷ interest expense
Current ratio1.60x1.69xCurrent assets ÷ current liabilities
Long-term debt to working capital5.12x1.09xLong-term debt ÷ (current assets − current liabilities)
Cash conversion9.63x1.58xOperating cash flow ÷ net income
Accruals-8.6%-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 equity12.8%19.8%357.7%19.8%
Return on capital employed12.2%5.7%19.5%23.9%24.9%14.5%13.7%10.9%-7.9%-3.5%12.2%
Operating margin12.5%11.5%31.2%35.2%35.9%28.3%31.2%28.4%-9.2%-4.5%28.3%
Net margin1.4%3.1%36.6%22.8%45.5%-92.7%-47.3%-55.8%-24.6%-20.9%-20.9%
Debt to equity8.27x12.03x14.60x12.03x
Current ratio1.60x1.77x4.37x3.84x1.33x1.17x1.68x1.95x1.87x2.41x1.77x
Cash conversion9.63x3.01x0.54x1.12x0.44x1.12x

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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