CoreCivic

CXW

REIT - Specialty · Real Estate

Price

$30.65

+0.00 (+0.00%)

Market Cap

$3.03B

Exchange

New York Stock Exchange

Winston Score

Winston is curious

Mixed quality — meaningful strengths and weaknesses.

Share count falling — buybacks

−10.3% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 120.2M (2021) → 107.8M (2025)

CoreCivic owns and operates prisons, detention centers, and residential reentry facilities across the United States. Its main customers are government agencies — primarily the federal government (including U.S. Marshals Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and state corrections departments — which pay CoreCivic to house inmates and detainees. It is one of the two largest private prison companies in the country.

CoreCivic makes money by charging government clients a daily rate per bed occupied, essentially leasing correctional capacity and staffing the facilities. It operates roughly 50,000 beds across more than 20 states and is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT), which requires it to pay out most of its taxable income as dividends. Its biggest risk is policy and political exposure — government contracts can be canceled or not renewed, and federal or state decisions to reduce reliance on private prisons could significantly shrink its business.

Winston Score History

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+25.8% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

+60.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$0/ year

0.0% of revenue

Below sector average (1%)

Research and development spending

Insider Activity

2.9%ownership

Relatively low insider ownership

Cash Runway

5+ years

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↓ Burn rate worsening

$390M cash & investments at current burn rate

Revenue accelerating

CoreCivic grew revenue 26% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

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

18.5%

Thin — 18.5% gross margin

Operating Margin

11.4%

Modest — 11.4% 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

+19.9%

Fast-growing sales (19.9% YoY)

EPS YoY

+60.5%

Earnings growing fast (60.5% YoY)

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

EPS Consistency

8/8 quarters

Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion

127%

Turns 127% of profit into real cash

FCF Margin

1.1%

Thin free cash flow (1.1%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity

1.00

Elevated debt (1.00)

Interest Cover

4.79x

Adequate interest coverage (4.8x)

Interest coverage between 3 and 8. Profits cover interest several times over.

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)

25.1x

Growth-priced — P/E 25.1

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

P/E vs Forward

+5.6

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (25.1 → 19.5)

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.

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