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Franklin Covey Co. (FC)

NYSE / Industrials / Consulting Services

Share price

18.16 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

205.1M USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Nov 12, 2025
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
15, FY2010 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

4.6% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

75.67x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

8.7% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 200.1M USDFY2016 Net income: 7.0M USDFY2017 Revenue: 185.3M USDFY2017 Net income: -7.2M USDFY2018 Revenue: 209.8M USDFY2018 Net income: -5.9M USDFY2019 Revenue: 225.4M USDFY2019 Net income: -1.0M USDFY2020 Revenue: 198.5M USDFY2020 Net income: -9.4M USDFY2021 Revenue: 224.2M USDFY2021 Net income: 13.6M USDFY2022 Revenue: 262.8M USDFY2022 Net income: 18.4M USDFY2023 Revenue: 280.5M USDFY2023 Net income: 17.8M USDFY2024 Revenue: 287.2M USDFY2024 Net income: 23.4M USDFY2025 Revenue: 267.1M USDFY2025 Net income: 3.1M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
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The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 75.67x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits above the highest.

Today, against the Industrials sector (412 companies), 75.67x sits at the 91st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.04x to 38.40x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 4.6% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of equity" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns on shareholders' money below the usual cost of equity.

Today, against the Industrials sector (643 companies), 4.6% sits at the 47th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -15.6% to 15.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 10.10x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Comfortable" (6.00x and above), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table, suggesting an interest bill operating profit covers many times over.

Year by year against peers
Whether Franklin Covey Co.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Industrials sector, year by year. (FY2021 to FY2025, 5 fiscal years of Franklin Covey Co. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Franklin Covey Co.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Franklin Covey Co.)
What could explain it
What in Franklin Covey Co.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (8 readings drawn from the statement lines Franklin Covey Co. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Franklin Covey Co., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Franklin Covey Co.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Franklin Covey Co.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (11 of sixteen figures read for Franklin Covey Co.)

These are FC’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, accession 0000886206-25-000085.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Franklin Covey Co: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Return on equity4.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Return on capital employed, pre-tax6.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Return on assets1.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Gross margin76.2% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Operating margin2.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Net margin1.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
FC 1.1%
FORR -30.1%RGP -9.0%EGG 12.6%
-30.1%12.6%
Net margin: FC against the 3 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Franklin Covey Co: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Current ratio0.82 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Quick ratio0.79 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Interest coverage10.10x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Altman Z-score2.58 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Net debt
Why n/a

The FY2025 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Total assets 242.9MTotal liabilities 176.0MShareholders' equity 66.9MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Franklin Covey Co owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085).

Franklin Covey Co: balance sheet position
Total assets242.9M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025
Total liabilities176.0M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025
Shareholders' equity66.9M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025
Cash31.7M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025
Total debtn/a FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025
Net debtn/a
Current ratio0.82
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2025: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Franklin Covey Co: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings75.67x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
P/E on trailing twelve months440.40x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book3.54x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Price to sales0.89x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Diluted earnings per share0.24 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Graham number5.26 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value FC on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Franklin Covey Co today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Franklin Covey Co: valuation
Share price18.16 USD
Market capitalisation205.1M USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham number5.26 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20250.24 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 10.13x, median 34.12x, high 466.40x, latest 440.40x. 1,384 trading days with a meaningful ratio, 1,138 more on a loss and left out. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Franklin Covey Co

  1. Forrester Research, Inc. (FORR)Market cap 227.2M USD
  2. Resources Connection, Inc. (RGP)Market cap 94.4M USD
  3. ENIGMATIG LTD (EGG)Market cap 131.9M USD

Same industry (Consulting Services) and size band (Micro, 50M to 300M), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Franklin Covey Co: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield8.7% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Free cash flow20.7M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Free cash flow margin7.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Dividend yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
FY2016 Free cash flow: 28.7M USDFY2016 Net income: 7.0M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 10.2M USDFY2017 Net income: -7.2M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 10.3M USDFY2018 Net income: -5.9M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 26.3M USDFY2019 Net income: -1.0M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 23.4M USDFY2020 Net income: -9.4M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 44.6M USDFY2021 Net income: 13.6M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 49.1M USDFY2022 Net income: 18.4M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 31.2M USDFY2023 Net income: 17.8M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 56.6M USDFY2024 Net income: 23.4M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 20.7M USDFY2025 Net income: 3.1M USD
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Franklin Covey Co.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
75.67xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
3.54xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a Enterprise value is the market value plus total debt less cash, and the filed balance sheet reports no debt total or no cash.
8.7%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Nov 12, 2025
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
n/aFY2025Nov 12, 2025
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
0.82FY2025Nov 12, 2025
0.89xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a This figure compares a year against the one before it, and we hold one filed year for this company.
2.58FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.84FY2025Nov 12, 2025
5/9FY2025Nov 12, 2025

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 15 filed fiscal years on record, FY2010 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Franklin Covey Co filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Franklin Covey Co: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY2025267.1M5.7M3.1M0.2420.7M2.1%4.6%10-K, Nov 12, 20250000886206-25-000085
FY2024287.2M33.0M23.4M1.7456.6M11.5%28.1%10-K, Nov 12, 20240000886206-24-000060
FY2023280.5M26.4M17.8M1.2431.2M9.4%22.6%10-K, Nov 13, 20230000886206-23-000059
FY2022262.8M23.7M18.4M1.2749.1M9.0%22.3%10-K, Nov 14, 20220000886206-22-000028
FY2021224.2M8.1M13.6M0.9644.6M3.6%17.1%10-K, Nov 12, 20210000886206-21-000040
FY2020198.5M3.1M-9.4M-0.6823.4M1.5%-15.9%10-K, Nov 16, 20200000886206-20-000029
FY2019225.4M2.7M-1.0M-0.0726.3M1.2%-1.3%10-K, Nov 14, 20190000886206-19-000036
FY2018209.8M-3.4M-5.9M-0.4310.3M-1.6%-7.3%10-K, Nov 14, 20180000886206-18-000026
FY2017185.3M-8.9M-7.2M-0.5210.2M-4.8%-8.4%10-K, Nov 14, 20170000886206-17-000037
FY2016200.1M13.8M7.0M0.4728.7M6.9%7.5%10-K, Nov 14, 20160000886206-16-000075
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 3.3%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -8.8%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -7.2%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -3.5%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Franklin Covey Co: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.84 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Piotroski F-score5/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 12, 2025, 0000886206-25-000085
Named tests met1 of 30 Computed
Beta1.50 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 1 met, 21 not met, 8 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; ROIC at or above WACC; Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(11)
  • Debt to Equity: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 11 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, EV/EBIT, Return on Invested Capital. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 8 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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