UAA · Consumer discretionary(apparel & other finishd prods of fabrics & similar matl) · 10 years of annual accounts filed with the SEC · latest fiscal year ended 2026-03-31
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Under Armour, Inc. reported revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2026, after shrinking 0.1% a year over the previous 9 years. Its operating margin narrowed from 0.6% in 2017 to -3.3%, and it earned -15.5% on its invested capital in the latest year. Of the $2.4 billion its operations generated over 10 years, 54.4% went back into the business and 13.0% to buybacks; the share count fell 3.2%. On the accounting screens, it passes 3 of 9 Piotroski tests, its Altman Z'' of 1.95 is in the grey zone and its Beneish M-score is below the -1.78 line; 1 of the six cross-checks between its statements fires.
Revenue, fiscal 20265.0B-0.1% a year over 9 years
Operating margin-3.3%gross margin 45.5%
Return on invested capital-15.5%-2.5% on average over 4 years
Free cash flow after stock pay-207.8M-4.2% of revenue
Net debt ÷ EBITDA-16.5×net debt 881.3M
Piotroski F-score3/9tests 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
-2.0B02.0B4.0B6.0B
2017Revenue 5.0BOperating income 27.8M
2018Revenue 5.2BOperating income -25.0M
2019Revenue 5.3BOperating income 236.8M
2020Revenue 4.5BOperating income -613.4M
2021Revenue 5.7BOperating income 475.2M
2022
2023Revenue 5.9BOperating income 263.6M
2024Revenue 5.7BOperating income 229.8M
2025Revenue 5.2BOperating income -185.2M
2026Revenue 5.0BOperating income -163.1M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Compound growth a year
3 yrs
5 yrs
9 yrs
Revenue
-5.6%
-2.7%
-0.1%
Shares
-2.6%
-1.9%
-0.4%
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
-35.0%
Return on assets
-11.2%
Asset turnover
1.12×
Overheads (SG&A)
46.2% 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
-1.0B-500.0M0500.0M1.0B
2017Net income -48.3MFree cash flow -43.9MAfter stock-based pay -83.8M
2018Net income -46.3MFree cash flow 457.8MAfter stock-based pay 416.1M
2019Net income 92.1MFree cash flow 363.2MAfter stock-based pay 313.6M
2020Net income -549.2MFree cash flow 120.6MAfter stock-based pay 78.5M
2021Net income 351.0MFree cash flow 594.5MAfter stock-based pay 550.7M
2022
2023Net income 374.5MFree cash flow -198.0MAfter stock-based pay -234.8M
2024Net income 232.0MFree cash flow 203.6MAfter stock-based pay 160.6M
2025Net income -201.3MFree cash flow -228.0MAfter stock-based pay -281.0M
2026Net income -495.6MFree cash flow -162.2MAfter stock-based pay -207.8M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Where 10 years of operating cash went, 2017–2026
2.4B generated by the business. Each band is its share of that total.
Reinvested in the business 54%1.3B
Acquisitions 2%48.9M
Dividends 0%0
Share buybacks 13%315.0M
Kept, or used to pay down debt 31%743.9M
Over the same years it paid 395.6M in stock. The share count fell 3.2%. The buybacks did not even cover what was handed out in stock.
Per share
Earnings per shareFree cash flow per shareDividend per share
$-2.00$-1.00$0.00$1.00$2.00
2017Earnings per share $-0.11Free cash flow per share $-0.10Dividend per share $0.00
2018Earnings per share $-0.10Free cash flow per share $1.03Dividend per share $0.00
2019Earnings per share $0.20Free cash flow per share $0.80
2020Earnings per share $-1.21Free cash flow per share $0.27
2021Earnings per share $0.75Free cash flow per share $1.27
2022
2023Earnings per share $0.81Free cash flow per share $-0.43
2024Earnings per share $0.51Free cash flow per share $0.45
2025Earnings per share $-0.47Free cash flow per share $-0.53
2026Earnings per share $-1.16Free cash flow per share $-0.38
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Shares outstanding
Diluted shares
420.0M440.0M460.0M480.0M
2017Diluted shares 440.7M
2018Diluted shares 445.8M
2019Diluted shares 454.3M
2020Diluted shares 454.1M
2021Diluted shares 468.6M
2022
2023Diluted shares 461.5M
2024Diluted shares 451.0M
2025Diluted shares 432.2M
2026Diluted shares 426.6M
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
-1.5B-1.0B-500.0M0500.0M1.0B
2017Net debt 479.6M
2018Net debt 171.4M
2019Net debt -195.4M
2020Net debt -513.8M
2021Net debt -1.0B
2022Net debt -336.1M
2023Net debt -36.5M
2024Net debt -182.9M
2025Net debt 93.8M
2026Net debt 881.3M
2017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Net debt ÷ EBITDA
-16.5×
Interest coverage
-3× operating income ÷ interest
Current ratio
1.62 current assets ÷ current liabilities
Cash conversion cycle
117 days collects in 50d, stock 123d, pays in 57d
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 9 tests passed
✕ProfitableReturn on assets above zerofailed
✕Cash from operationsOperating cash flow above zerofailed
✕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 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?
1.95grey zone
1.12.6
Working capital ÷ assets 0.24 × 6.56+1.55
Retained earnings ÷ assets 0.05 × 3.26+0.16
Operating income ÷ assets -0.04 × 6.72-0.25
Equity ÷ liabilities 0.47 × 1.05+0.49
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?
-3.03below the -1.78 line
-1.78
Receivables vs sales 1.05+0.97
Gross margin slipping 1.05+0.56
Soft assets 0.81+0.33
Sales growth 0.96+0.86
Slower depreciation 1.12+0.13
Overheads vs sales 0.92-0.16
Profit not in cash -0.10-0.45
Leverage rising 1.30-0.42
Where it misleads: fast growth and acquisitions. Sales growth carries a heavy weight, so a company growing 50% a year scores like a suspect without having done anything. It is a screen from a 1999 study, not an accusation.
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.
The effective tax rate is -146.9%.
Benign
A favourable geographic mix, or legitimate tax credits.
Worrying
Not sustainable; projecting it forward inflates the valuation.
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.
With a free cash flow margin at or below zero in year ten, the business never generates cash for its owners and a DCF says nothing useful. Set a positive margin for year ten to see what it would take.
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 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.
Companies like this one
Same SEC industry (apparel & other finishd prods of fabrics & similar matl) first, then the rest of consumer discretionary.
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.