BrightView Holdings

Specialty Business Services · Industrials

Price

$14.52

-0.33 (-2.22%)

Market Cap

$1.35B

Winston Score

Winston is serious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

−7.5% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 105.7M (2021) → 97.7M (2025)

BrightView Holdings is the largest commercial landscaping company in the United States. It mows, plants, trims, and maintains outdoor spaces for businesses, hospitals, universities, sports stadiums, and government properties. The company also handles snow removal and landscape construction, such as installing new lawns, trees, and irrigation systems.

BrightView earns money by charging clients recurring service contracts for ongoing maintenance, plus project-based fees for one-time construction work. It operates across the U.S. with roughly 22,000 employees and hundreds of branch locations, giving it a scale advantage that smaller local landscapers cannot easily match. However, the business has thin profit margins, heavy reliance on labor, and faces pressure from rising wages and fuel costs — all of which make it difficult to consistently grow earnings even as revenue increases.

Winston Score History

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+6.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow revenue growth

EPS Growth

-197.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (4%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

26.6%ownership

→ Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~2 months

$10M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

BrightView Holdings has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Gross Margin

18.8%

Thin — 18.8% gross margin

Operating Margin

3.1%

Thin — 3.1% operating margin

ROCE

0.8%

Weak — 0.8% return on capital

ROIC between 0% and 5%. They earn a few cents back per dollar invested in the business.

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Growth

Sales YoY

+0.8%

Nearly flat sales (0.8% YoY)

EPS YoY

+1617.1%

Earnings growing fast (1617.1% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

EPS Consistency

4/8 quarters

Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

407%

Turns 407% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

0.8%

Thin free cash flow (0.8%)

FCF margin between 0% and 10%. Some cash from sales, but not a lot.

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Stability

Debt / Equity

0.49

Conservative — low debt load (0.49)

Interest Cover

2.85x

Tight — interest eats into profit (2.9x)

Interest coverage between 1 and 3. Profits cover interest, but with little room to spare.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

80.5x

Expensive — P/E 80.5

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

P/E vs Forward

+64.2

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (80.5 → 16.4)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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