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Jabil

JBL
37
Hardware, Equipment & Parts · Technology
Price
$301.01
-6.05 (-1.97%)
Market Cap
$31.54B
Winston Score
37
Winston is serious
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.

Share count falling — buybacks

27.1% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 152.1M (2021) → 110.9M (2025)

Jabil is a manufacturing company that builds physical products for other well-known brands. Instead of selling its own branded goods, Jabil designs and assembles things like electronics, medical devices, packaging, and industrial equipment on behalf of its customers. Its clients include major companies in healthcare, consumer electronics, cloud computing, and electric vehicles — including Apple, which has historically been one of its largest customers.

Jabil makes money by charging fees to manufacture and supply products for these companies, keeping a small margin on each item it produces. The company operates over 100 facilities across roughly 30 countries, making it one of the largest contract manufacturers in the world. Its main competitive advantage is its global scale and ability to handle complex, high-volume production across many industries at once. The biggest risk Jabil faces is customer concentration — losing or seeing reduced orders from a single large customer like Apple can have a meaningful impact on its overall revenue.

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Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+23.1% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Steady revenue growth

EPS Growth

+97.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

EPS growth accelerating

R&D Spend

$26M/ year

Declining (-33% vs prior year)

0.1% of revenue

Below sector average (15%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

1.9%ownership

Flat

Insiders holding steady — not selling despite ability to

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$1.8B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

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

Growth + cash flow

Jabil is a rare growth stock that's already generating positive cash flow while growing at 23%. The Winston Score doesn't fully credit this transition from "burner" to "earner."

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
9.0%
Thin — 9.0% gross margin
Operating Margin
4.7%
Thin — 4.7% operating margin
ROCE
7.4%
Weak — 7.4% return on capital

ROIC between 5% and 15%. They earn 5 to 15 cents back per year on every dollar invested.

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Growth

Sales YoY
+7.9%
Steady sales growth (7.9% YoY)
EPS YoY
-34.6%
Earnings shrinking (-34.6% YoY)

Earnings per share down more than 10%. Either a bad year, or a real decline.

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

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Cash Flow

Cash Conversion
223%
Turns 223% of profit into real cash
FCF Margin
4.1%
Thin free cash flow (4.1%)

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

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Stability

Debt / Equity
2.88
Heavy debt load (2.88)
Interest Cover
4.90x
Adequate interest coverage (4.9x)

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

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Valuation

P/E Ratio (TTM)
41.6x
Pricey — P/E 41.6

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

P/E vs Forward
+14.9
GROWING
Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (41.6 → 26.7)

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Dividends

Dividend Yield
0.09%
Small dividend — 0.09% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend Growth
+0.0%
Dividend flat

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