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Champion Homes

SKY
56
Residential Construction · Consumer Cyclical
Winston Score
56
Winston is curious
A decent business — some strong pillars, some weaker.

Champion Homes builds factory-made houses that are sold at lower prices than traditional site-built homes. The company makes manufactured homes and modular homes, selling them through a network of independent retailers, company-owned stores, and community operators across the United States. It is one of the largest manufactured housing producers in the country, competing mainly with Clayton Homes and Cavco Industries.

Champion makes money by selling completed homes to dealers and directly to buyers, with some additional revenue from its own retail locations. The company operates primarily in the U.S., with dozens of manufacturing plants spread across multiple regions. Its main competitive advantage is its scale and established dealer network, which are hard for smaller rivals to replicate quickly. The biggest growth driver is ongoing demand for affordable housing, but the main risk is that rising interest rates make financing a manufactured home more expensive, which can quickly reduce buyer demand.

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+10.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

>+1,000% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

Insider Activity

1.6%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$610M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Growth + cash flow

Champion Homes is a rare growth stock that's already generating positive cash flow while growing at 11%. The Winston Score doesn't fully credit this transition from "burner" to "earner."

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Quality

Gross Margin
25.0%
Modest — 25.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
7.1%
Modest — 7.1% operating margin
ROCE
2.5%
Weak — 2.5% 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
+8.7%
Steady sales growth (8.7% YoY)
EPS YoY
+31.6%
Earnings growing fast (31.6% 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
139%
Turns 139% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
9.9%
Modest free cash flow (9.9%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity
0.09
Conservative — low debt load (0.09)
Interest Cover
32.68x
Comfortably covers interest (32.7x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
22.9x
no trend
Growth-priced — P/E 22.9

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

P/E vs Forward
N/A
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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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