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CBRE Group

CBRE
44
Real Estate - Services · Real Estate
Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Winston Score
44
Winston is serious
Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

CBRE Group is the world's largest commercial real estate services company. It helps businesses and investors buy, sell, lease, and manage office buildings, warehouses, shopping centers, and other commercial properties. Its customers include large corporations looking for office space, landlords who need their buildings managed, and investors who want help buying or selling real estate assets.

CBRE makes money through fees and commissions — it earns a cut when a deal closes, charges ongoing fees to manage properties, and sells advisory and valuation services. The company operates in over 100 countries, generating roughly $35 billion in annual revenue, which gives it a significant scale advantage over smaller regional competitors. Its main risk is sensitivity to the real estate cycle — when interest rates rise or the economy slows, deal volumes drop and clients delay decisions, which can quickly squeeze revenue and margins.

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Growth Profile

When traditional metrics don't capture the full picture, these are the signals growth stock investors use instead.

Revenue Growth

+18.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+100.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

0.7%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Runway

~6 months

$1.7B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

CBRE Group 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
17.6%
Thin — 17.6% gross margin
Operating Margin
4.9%
Thin — 4.9% operating margin
ROCE
3.1%
Weak — 3.1% 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
+14.8%
Fast-growing sales (14.8% YoY)
EPS YoY
+33.7%
Earnings growing fast (33.7% YoY)

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

EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
98%
Turns 98% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
2.1%
Thin free cash flow (2.1%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.93
Moderate — manageable debt (0.93)
Interest Cover
8.16x
Comfortably covers interest (8.2x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
31.4x
no trend
Pricey — P/E 31.4

P/E above the market average. People are paying up for expected growth.

P/E vs Forward
+17.8
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (31.4 → 13.6)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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