MHO · Consumer discretionary(operative builders) · 10 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
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M/I Homes, Inc. reported revenue of $4.4 billion in fiscal 2025, after growing 11.3% a year over the previous 9 years. Its operating margin widened from 6.4% in 2016 to 11.5%. Of the $1.2 billion its operations generated over 10 years, 46.8% went to buybacks and 8.4% back into the business; the share count fell 9.2%. On the accounting screens, it passes 3 of 7 Piotroski tests; 2 of the six cross-checks between its statements fire.
Revenue, fiscal 20254.4B+11.3% a year over 9 years
Operating margin11.5%gross margin 23.0%
Return on invested capital—
Free cash flow after stock pay110.7M2.5% of revenue
Net debt ÷ EBITDA—net debt —
Piotroski F-score3/7tests 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
02.0B4.0B6.0B
2016Revenue 1.7BOperating income 108.7M
2017Revenue 2.0BOperating income 138.7M
2018Revenue 2.3BOperating income 163.2M
2019Revenue 2.5BOperating income 187.1M
2020Revenue 3.0BOperating income 319.3M
2021Revenue 3.7BOperating income 518.3M
2022Revenue 4.1BOperating income 637.5M
2023Revenue 4.0BOperating income 587.2M
2024Revenue 4.5BOperating income 706.1M
2025Revenue 4.4BOperating income 506.6M
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Compound growth a year
3 yrs
5 yrs
9 yrs
Revenue
+2.3%
+7.7%
+11.3%
Operating income
-7.4%
+9.7%
+18.6%
Net income
-6.4%
+10.9%
+24.4%
Earnings per share
-5.1%
+12.4%
+25.7%
Free cash flow per share
-8.7%
-2.8%
+23.5%
Shares
-1.3%
-1.3%
-1.1%
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.
Needs a cost of capital, which comes from the valuation below.
Return on equity
12.7%
Return on assets
8.4%
Asset turnover
0.92×
Overheads (SG&A)
5.9% of revenue
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
2016Net income 56.6MFree cash flow 21.1MAfter stock-based pay 15.8M
2017Net income 72.1MFree cash flow -62.0MAfter stock-based pay -68.0M
2018Net income 107.7MFree cash flow -10.7MAfter stock-based pay -16.7M
2019Net income 127.6MFree cash flow 61.1MAfter stock-based pay 55.3M
2020Net income 239.9MFree cash flow 156.7MAfter stock-based pay 149.5M
2021Net income 396.9MFree cash flow -42.1MAfter stock-based pay -50.7M
2022Net income 490.7MFree cash flow 174.7MAfter stock-based pay 166.0M
2023Net income 465.4MFree cash flow 546.4MAfter stock-based pay 535.0M
2024Net income 563.7MFree cash flow 171.3MAfter stock-based pay 156.8M
2025Net income 402.9MFree cash flow 127.7MAfter stock-based pay 110.7M
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Where 10 years of operating cash went, 2016–2025
1.2B generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.
Reinvested in the business 8%104.7M
Acquisitions 0%0
Dividends 1%8.5M
Share buybacks 47%584.0M
Kept, or used to pay down debt 44%551.7M
Over the same years it paid 90.6M in stock. The share count fell 9.2%. 493.4M of the buybacks went beyond offsetting that dilution.
Per share
Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share
$-10.00$0.00$10.00$20.00
2016Earnings per share $1.88Free cash flow per share $0.70Dividend per share $0.16
2017Earnings per share $2.35Free cash flow per share $-2.02Dividend per share $0.12
2018Earnings per share $3.69Free cash flow per share $-0.37Dividend per share $0.00
2019Earnings per share $4.48Free cash flow per share $2.15Dividend per share $0.00
2020Earnings per share $8.23Free cash flow per share $5.37
2021Earnings per share $13.28Free cash flow per share $-1.41
2022Earnings per share $17.24Free cash flow per share $6.14
2023Earnings per share $16.21Free cash flow per share $19.03
2024Earnings per share $19.71Free cash flow per share $5.99
2025Earnings per share $14.74Free cash flow per share $4.67
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Shares outstanding
Diluted shares
27.0M28.0M29.0M30.0M31.0M
2016Diluted shares 30.1M
2017Diluted shares 30.7M
2018Diluted shares 29.2M
2019Diluted shares 28.5M
2020Diluted shares 29.2M
2021Diluted shares 29.9M
2022Diluted shares 28.5M
2023Diluted shares 28.7M
2024Diluted shares 28.6M
2025Diluted shares 27.3M
2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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 ÷ EBITDA
—
Interest coverage
— operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
— current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
—
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.
3of 7 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)failed
–Less long-term debtLong-term debt as a share of assets fell — not reportedno data
–More liquidCurrent ratio higher than a year before — not reportedno data
✓No new sharesShare count did not growpassed
✕Better gross marginGross margin higher than a year beforefailed
✕Sells more per assetAsset turnover higher than a year beforefailed
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?
The accounts lack a line it needs (retained earnings, current assets or liabilities).
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.
Reported profit comfortably exceeds the cash generated (403M against 137M).
Benign
Growth consuming working capital, or the seasonality of the year-end.
Worrying
Profit held up by accounting entries that do not turn into money.
Capital spending (10M) is well below depreciation (19M).
Benign
Mature assets, or a business that has become less capital-intensive.
Worrying
Under-investing: today's profit is being held up by consuming tomorrow's capacity.
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.
The SEC accounts lack the lines needed for revenue, free cash flow or the share count, so there is no DCF for this company.
What it has filed lately
The last twelve months at the SEC, most important first: annual and quarterly reports, events, large holders and insiders.
Every Form 4 filed in the last twelve months, read line by line: 6 filings by 5 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$7.7M16 sale(s) by 2 insider(s)
Under pre-arranged plans0%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.