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Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (SBH)

NYSE / Consumer Cyclical / Specialty Retail

Share price

17.12 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

1.60B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Nov 13, 2025
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
17, FY2008 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 invested capital, after tax

11.0% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

8.78x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

9.7% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 3.95B USDFY2016 Net income: 222.9M USDFY2017 Revenue: 3.94B USDFY2017 Net income: 215.1M USDFY2018 Revenue: 3.93B USDFY2018 Net income: 258.0M USDFY2019 Revenue: 3.88B USDFY2019 Net income: 271.6M USDFY2020 Revenue: 3.51B USDFY2020 Net income: 184.6M USDFY2021 Revenue: 3.87B USDFY2021 Net income: 239.9M USDFY2022 Revenue: 3.82B USDFY2022 Net income: 183.6M USDFY2023 Revenue: 3.73B USDFY2023 Net income: 184.6M USDFY2024 Revenue: 3.72B USDFY2024 Net income: 153.4M USDFY2025 Revenue: 3.70B USDFY2025 Net income: 195.9M USD
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
8 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 8.78x 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 below the lowest.

Today, against the Specialty Retail industry (44 companies), 8.78x sits at the 16th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.54x to 47.91x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was 11.0% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Around the cost of capital" (8.0% to 12.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Consumer Cyclical sector (222 companies), 11.0% sits at the 62nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 3.6% to 14.8%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 5.09x in FY2025, in the band labelled "Investment grade" (3.00x to 6.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Consumer Cyclical sector, year by year. (FY2017 to FY2025, 9 fiscal years of Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.'s gross margin has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (8 readings drawn from the statement lines Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc., and where in its filings. (4 questions for Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (15 of sixteen figures read for Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.)

These are SBH’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 13, 2025, accession 0001193125-25-280122.

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Quality

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

SEC filingComputed

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax11.0% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Return on equity24.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Return on capital employed, pre-tax14.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Return on assets6.8% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Gross margin51.6% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Operating margin8.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Net margin5.3% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
SBH 5.3%
RVLV 5.0%LQDT 5.9%BNED 1.0%ARKO 0.3%BWMX 5.0%
0.3%5.9%
Net margin: SBH against the 5 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

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity1.97 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Current ratio2.26 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Quick ratio0.54 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Interest coverage5.09x ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Altman Z-score2.92 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Net debt1.41B ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Total assets 2.87BTotal liabilities 2.08BShareholders' equity 794.2MOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122).

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets2.87B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025
Total liabilities2.08B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025
Shareholders' equity794.2M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025
Cash149.2M FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025
Total debt1.56B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025
Net debt1.41B
Current ratio2.26
Debt to equity1.97

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

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings8.78x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
P/E on trailing twelve months8.14x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book2.24x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Price to sales0.48x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Enterprise value to EBIT9.73x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Enterprise value to EBITDA7.46x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Price to earnings over growth0.60 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Diluted earnings per share1.89 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Graham number18.32 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value SBH 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 Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc: valuation
Share price17.12 USD
Market capitalisation1.60B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA7.46x
Graham number18.32 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY20251.89 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 3.13x, median 8.26x, high 20.49x, latest 8.14x. 2,520 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc

  1. Revolve Group, Inc. (RVLV)Market cap 1.65B USD
  2. Liquidity Services, Inc. (LQDT)Market cap 1.38B USD
  3. Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (BNED)Market cap 455.8M USD
  4. Arko Corp. (ARKO)Market cap 461.1M USD
  5. Betterware de México, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (BWMX)Market cap 644.0M USD

Same industry (Specialty Retail) and size band (Small, 300M to 2B), 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

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield9.7% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Free cash flow172.7M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Free cash flow margin4.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
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 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
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 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
FY2016 Free cash flow: 202.9M USDFY2016 Net income: 222.9M USDFY2017 Free cash flow: 253.6M USDFY2017 Net income: 215.1M USDFY2018 Free cash flow: 286.2M USDFY2018 Net income: 258.0M USDFY2019 Free cash flow: 212.7M USDFY2019 Net income: 271.6M USDFY2020 Free cash flow: 316.0M USDFY2020 Net income: 184.6M USDFY2021 Free cash flow: 308.0M USDFY2021 Net income: 239.9M USDFY2022 Free cash flow: 57.3M USDFY2022 Net income: 183.6M USDFY2023 Free cash flow: 158.6M USDFY2023 Net income: 184.6M USDFY2024 Free cash flow: 145.4M USDFY2024 Net income: 153.4M USDFY2025 Free cash flow: 172.7M USDFY2025 Net income: 195.9M 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.

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
8.78xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
2.24xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
9.73xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
9.7%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
11.0%FY2025Nov 13, 2025
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.
1.97FY2025Nov 13, 2025
2.26FY2025Nov 13, 2025
0.48xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.60FY2025Oct 15, 2026
2.92FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.69FY2025Nov 13, 2025
8/9FY2025Nov 13, 2025

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 17 filed fiscal years on record, FY2008 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 Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc: 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
FY20253.70B327.8M195.9M1.89172.7M8.9%24.7%10-K, Nov 13, 20250001193125-25-280122
FY20243.72B282.7M153.4M1.43145.4M7.6%24.4%10-K, Nov 14, 20240000950170-24-127217
FY20233.73B325.0M184.6M1.69158.6M8.7%36.3%10-K, Nov 16, 20230000950170-23-064558
FY20223.82B337.6M183.6M1.6657.3M8.8%62.5%10-K, Nov 17, 20220001564590-22-037949
FY20213.87B418.4M239.9M2.10308.0M10.8%85.4%10-K, Nov 22, 20210001564590-21-057810
FY20203.51B258.8M184.6M0.99316.0M7.4%1195.4%10-K, Nov 24, 20200001564590-20-054910
FY20193.88B458.5M271.6M2.26212.7M11.8%n/m10-K, Nov 25, 20190001564590-19-044262
FY20183.93B426.6M258.0M2.08286.2M10.8%n/m10-K, Nov 14, 20180001564590-18-029551
FY20173.94B478.6M215.1M1.56253.6M12.2%n/m10-K, Nov 15, 20170001047469-17-007074
FY20163.95B498.3M222.9M1.50202.9M12.6%n/m10-K, Nov 15, 20160001047469-16-016713
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -0.7%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -1.4%
  • Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 2.6%
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -1.8%

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

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.69 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Piotroski F-score8/9 ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Nov 13, 2025, 0001193125-25-280122
Named tests met8 of 30 Computed
Beta1.02 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 8 met, 19 not met, 3 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); EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Owner earnings yield; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; High yield, low payout; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; High return on tangibles; Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Not measured
Dividends and buybacks; Cash-covered dividend; Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff). A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(4)
  • 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.
  • 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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What this cannot tell you

  • 4 figures could not be read on this company, among them Dividend Yield, Payout Ratio, Dividend Coverage Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 3 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

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