ENS · Technology(miscellaneous electrical machinery, equipment & supplies) · 10 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2026-03-31
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EnerSys reported revenue of $3.8 billion in fiscal 2026, after growing 43.9% a year over the previous 9 years. Its operating margin narrowed from 167.2% in 2017 to 11.4%, and it earned 12.0% on its invested capital in the latest year. Of the $2.7 billion its operations generated over 10 years, 39.1% went to acquisitions and 36.8% to buybacks; the share count fell 13.3%. On the accounting screens, it passes 6 of 8 Piotroski tests and its Altman Z'' of 6.10 is in the safe zone; none of the six cross-checks between its statements fires.
Revenue, fiscal 20263.8B+43.9% a year over 9 years
Operating margin11.4%gross margin —
Return on invested capital12.0%10.6% on average over 5 years
Free cash flow after stock pay429.9M11.5% of revenue
Net debt ÷ EBITDA1.2×net debt 670.3M
Piotroski F-score6/8tests of improvement passed
Is it growing?
Revenue and the operating income it turns into. Growth that does not reach operating income is growth bought with margin.
RevenueOperating income
01.0B2.0B3.0B4.0B
2017Revenue 141.8MOperating income 237.1M
2018Revenue 186.1MOperating income 270.8M
2019Revenue 186.6MOperating income 212.5M
2020Revenue 216.1MOperating income 190.2M
2021Revenue 3.0BOperating income 216.4M
2022Revenue 3.4BOperating income 206.3M
2023Revenue 3.7BOperating income 278.4M
2024Revenue 3.6BOperating income 351.6M
2025Revenue 3.6BOperating income 464.7M
2026Revenue 3.8BOperating income 426.5M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Compound growth a year
3 yrs
5 yrs
9 yrs
Revenue
+0.4%
+4.7%
+43.9%
Operating income
+15.3%
+14.5%
+6.7%
Net income
+18.6%
+15.4%
+7.0%
Earnings per share
+21.8%
+18.3%
+8.7%
Free cash flow per share
+38.4%
+12.9%
+11.9%
Dividend per share
+13.1%
+7.7%
+4.2%
Shares
-2.6%
-2.5%
-1.6%
Falling shares are buybacks: each remaining share owns more of the company.
Does it earn more than its capital costs?
Margins say how much of each sale is kept; return on invested capital says how much the business earns on the money it needs to operate. Growth only creates value when that return is above the cost of the capital.
Return on invested capitalCost of capital today · 8.0%
0.0%5.0%10.0%15.0%
2017Return on invested capital 10.3%
2018Return on invested capital 7.6%
2019Return on invested capital 8.1%
2020Return on invested capital 7.2%
2021Return on invested capital 7.2%
2022Return on invested capital 6.1%
2023Return on invested capital 8.7%
2024Return on invested capital 12.5%
2025Return on invested capital 13.7%
2026Return on invested capital 12.0%
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Economic profit
Economic profit
-100.0M0100.0M200.0M
2017Economic profit 39.0M
2018Economic profit -7.9M
2019Economic profit 1.8M
2020Economic profit -19.5M
2021Economic profit -22.0M
2022Economic profit -53.3M
2023Economic profit 17.5M
2024Economic profit 116.0M
2025Economic profit 172.4M
2026Economic profit 118.1M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
(return on capital − cost of capital) × capital invested: the profit left after paying for the money used. Today's cost of capital is applied to every year, since a past one cannot be rebuilt honestly.
Return on equity
15.4%
Return on assets
7.3%
Asset turnover
0.94×
Is the profit cash, and where does the cash go?
Net income is an accounting opinion; free cash flow is what was left in the bank after investing. Stock-based pay does not leave the bank — shareholders pay it through dilution — so it is shown taken off as well.
Net incomeFree cash flowAfter stock-based pay
-200.0M0200.0M400.0M600.0M
2017Net income 160.2MFree cash flow 196.0MAfter stock-based pay 176.8M
2018Net income 119.6MFree cash flow 141.2MAfter stock-based pay 121.8M
2019Net income 160.2MFree cash flow 127.5MAfter stock-based pay 104.9M
2020Net income 137.1MFree cash flow 152.0MAfter stock-based pay 131.2M
2021Net income 143.4MFree cash flow 288.4MAfter stock-based pay 268.5M
2022Net income 143.9MFree cash flow -139.6MAfter stock-based pay -163.9M
2023Net income 175.8MFree cash flow 191.2MAfter stock-based pay 164.8M
2024Net income 269.1MFree cash flow 370.6MAfter stock-based pay 340.0M
2025Net income 363.7MFree cash flow 139.3MAfter stock-based pay 111.4M
2026Net income 293.6MFree cash flow 467.5MAfter stock-based pay 429.9M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Where 10 years of operating cash went, 2017–2026
2.7B generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.
Reinvested in the business 30%812.1M
Acquisitions 39%1.1B
Dividends 12%317.3M
Share buybacks 37%1.0B
More than it generated: funded with cash or new debt -17%-469.1M
Over the same years it paid 248.5M in stock. The share count fell 13.3%. 763.3M of the buybacks went beyond offsetting that dilution.
Per share
Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share
$-5.00$0.00$5.00$10.00$15.00
2017Earnings per share $3.64Free cash flow per share $4.45Dividend per share $0.69
2018Earnings per share $2.77Free cash flow per share $3.27Dividend per share $0.69
2019Earnings per share $3.73Free cash flow per share $2.96Dividend per share $0.69
2020Earnings per share $3.20Free cash flow per share $3.54Dividend per share $0.69
2021Earnings per share $3.32Free cash flow per share $6.67Dividend per share $0.69
2022Earnings per share $3.36Free cash flow per share $-3.26Dividend per share $0.69
2023Earnings per share $4.25Free cash flow per share $4.63Dividend per share $0.69
2024Earnings per share $6.50Free cash flow per share $8.96Dividend per share $0.83
2025Earnings per share $8.99Free cash flow per share $3.44Dividend per share $0.93
2026Earnings per share $7.70Free cash flow per share $12.26Dividend per share $1.00
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Shares outstanding
Diluted shares
38.0M40.0M42.0M44.0M46.0M
2017Diluted shares 44.0M
2018Diluted shares 43.1M
2019Diluted shares 43.0M
2020Diluted shares 42.9M
2021Diluted shares 43.2M
2022Diluted shares 42.8M
2023Diluted shares 41.3M
2024Diluted shares 41.4M
2025Diluted shares 40.4M
2026Diluted shares 38.1M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
How strong is the balance sheet?
Debt is not bad in itself; debt the business cannot service in a bad year is. Net debt is debt minus cash, and below zero the company holds more cash than it owes.
Net debt
0250.0M500.0M750.0M1.0B
2017Net debt 105.6M
2018Net debt 75.8M
2019Net debt 727.0M
2020Net debt 824.3M
2021Net debt 552.0M
2022Net debt 895.6M
2023Net debt 726.0M
2024Net debt 499.1M
2025Net debt 768.9M
2026Net debt 670.3M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
1.2×
Interest coverage
8× operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
2.66 current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
— collects in 49d
Three classic screens of the accounts
Each asks a different question of the same statements — is it improving, does it look like a company heading for distress, do the accounts resemble ones that were manipulated. None is a verdict; each shows what moves it.
Piotroski F-score
Is the business improving? Nine yes-or-no tests, this year against last.
6of 8 tests passed
✓ProfitableReturn on assets above zeropassed
✓Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zeropassed
✕Profitability improvedReturn on assets higher than a year beforefailed
✓Profit backed by cashOperating cash flow above net income (low accruals)passed
✓Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fellpassed
✕More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year beforefailed
✓No new sharesShare count did not growpassed
–Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year before — not reportedno data
✓Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year beforepassed
Where it misleads: it measures change, not level. An excellent business that stood still for a year scores low; a poor one recovering from a disaster scores high.
Altman Z''-score
Does the balance sheet look like those of companies that went bankrupt?
6.10safe zone
1.12.6
Working capital ÷ assets 0.33 × 6.56+2.19
Retained earnings ÷ assets 0.69 × 3.26+2.23
Operating income ÷ assets 0.11 × 6.72+0.72
Equity ÷ liabilities 0.91 × 1.05+0.96
Where it misleads: buybacks. A company that returns so much cash that its equity turns small or negative sinks the last two ratios without being anywhere near bankruptcy. Banks and insurers do not fit the model at all.
Beneish M-score
Do the accounts resemble those of companies that manipulated their earnings?
The accounts lack too many of the lines it needs.
Where the statements disagree
Cross-checks between the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow for the latest year, each with the benign reading and the worrying one.
None of the six cross-checks fires for the latest year: receivables and inventory move with revenue, profit turns into cash, investment keeps up with depreciation, the tax rate is ordinary and debt is moderate.
What is it worth, under which assumptions?
A company is worth the cash it will generate, brought back to today. This model projects revenue with growth that fades over the years, applies a free cash flow margin, and discounts the result at the cost of capital. Every assumption says where it came from, and all of them can be changed.
Value per share, with these assumptions$200.25discounted at 8.0% a year · 60% of it from after year 10
Type a share price on the left to ask the reverse questions: what growth, what margin or what discount rate that price implies.
What the value implies, in the usual multiples
At this model's value
Price ÷ earnings
26.0×
Enterprise value ÷ EBITDA
15.4×
Enterprise value ÷ revenue
2.2×
Free cash flow yield
5.6%
From cash flows to a value per share
10 years of cash flow, today3.3B
Everything after, today5.0B
The whole business8.3B
Minus net debt-670.3M
What belongs to shareholders7.6B
Divided among 38.1M shares: <strong>$200.25</strong> each.
The projection next to its history
Reported free cash flow after stock pay, then the model's. A projection that looks nothing like the past needs a reason.
ReportedProjected
-200.0M0200.0M400.0M600.0M
2017Reported 176.8M
2018Reported 121.8M
2019Reported 104.9M
2020Reported 131.2M
2021Reported 268.5M
2022Reported -163.9M
2023Reported 164.8M
2024Reported 340.0M
2025Reported 111.4M
2026Reported 429.9M
2027Projected 430.7M
2028Projected 449.1M
2029Projected 467.3M
2030Projected 485.3M
2031Projected 502.8M
2032Projected 519.8M
2033Projected 536.3M
2034Projected 552.1M
2035Projected 567.1M
2036Projected 581.3M
2017201920212023202520272029203120332035
Year by year
2027
2028
2029
2030
2031
2032
2033
2034
2035
2036
Revenue
3.9B
4.1B
4.3B
4.4B
4.6B
4.7B
4.9B
5.0B
5.2B
5.3B
Growth
4.5%
4.3%
4.1%
3.8%
3.6%
3.4%
3.2%
2.9%
2.7%
2.5%
Cash margin
11.0%
11.0%
11.0%
11.0%
11.0%
11.0%
11.0%
11.0%
11.0%
11.0%
Free cash flow
430.7M
449.1M
467.3M
485.3M
502.8M
519.8M
536.3M
552.1M
567.1M
581.3M
Worth today
398.7M
384.8M
370.6M
356.2M
341.6M
326.9M
312.2M
297.5M
282.9M
268.4M
If the least-known inputs move
Value per share as two inputs change at a time. Neighbouring cells that differ a lot are the conclusion: the value depends on numbers nobody knows to a point.
The discount rate and growth forever
discount ↓ · forever →
1.5%
2.0%
2.5%
3.0%
3.5%
7.0%
207
226
249
277
313
7.5%
189
204
222
244
272
8.0%
173
185
200
218
240
8.5%
159
169
182
196
214
9.0%
147
156
166
179
193
Year-one growth and the final margin
margin ↓ · growth →
0.5%
2.5%
4.5%
6.5%
8.5%
8.8%
137
151
165
181
198
9.9%
152
167
183
200
219
11.0%
166
183
200
219
240
12.1%
181
199
218
239
261
13.2%
195
214
235
258
282
All the inputs moving at once
5,000 valuations, each with growth, final margin, discount rate and growth forever drawn at random around the values on the left (spreads of 3.0%, 2.0%, 1.0% and 0.5%). Not a probability — the spreads are assumptions too — but an honest picture of how wide the answer is.
10th percentile$137.92
Median$200.25
90th percentile$301.39
$200.00$300.00$400.00
Half of the simulations land between <b>$164.78</b> and <b>$246.55</b>; one in ten below $137.92, one in ten above $301.39.
Does the long run make sense?
14.1×The terminal value prices the business in year 10 at 14.1 times that year's EBITDA.
Free growthIn year 10 free cash flow is at or above after-tax operating profit, yet the model grows 2.5% forever. Growth needs reinvestment; this assumes it comes for free, which flatters the terminal value.
60%of the value comes from after year 10. The more of it, the more the answer depends on the part nobody can see.
Every Form 4 filed in the last twelve months, read line by line: 6 filings by 6 people. Open-market purchases and sales are counted apart from awards, option exercises and shares withheld for taxes.
Bought on the open market—none in the period
Sold on the open market—none in the period
Under pre-arranged plans—of the sales followed a 10b5-1 plan set months earlier
A Form 4 says what happened, when, how many shares and at what price. It does not say why: a sale can be diversification, a tax bill or a plan fixed months earlier, and an award is pay, not a purchase. Nothing here is a reason to buy or sell anything.
Which large funds report holding it
From the Form 13F of the 28 institutions followed on this site, as of the end of their last reported quarter. A 13F is filed up to 45 days later and shows only long positions in US-listed shares.
Accounts from the company's own SEC filings; lines some companies do not report are shown as a dash rather than estimated. The risk-free rate is the 10-year US Treasury yield. A DCF is a way of making assumptions explicit, not a forecast: it states what the company would be worth if the assumptions held. The scores are screens that point where to look, not verdicts. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell.