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Post Holdings, Inc. POST

· Consumer · Grain Mill Products

FY2024 10-K, filed 2025-11-21
SEC EDGAR

Filing evidence summary

Mixed evidenceCoverage 5/5 core metrics

Flagged areas: Earnings quality, Solvency & liquidity.

Backward-looking filed evidence under visible rules - not a rating, forecast or investment advice. Missing data is never scored.

Evidence signals

  • 2 filing risk checks flagged

    Flagged areas: Earnings quality, Solvency & liquidity.

    Why this surfaced

    The full financial analysis shows each value, threshold, and sector limitation.

  • Operating margin was stable

    Operating margin changed -0.2 percentage points from the prior annual period.

    Why this surfaced

    Direction threshold: more than +1 percentage point constructive; below -1 point caution. Period end 2025-09-30.

  • Revenue expanded

    Latest reported annual revenue changed +3.0% from the prior reported annual observation.

    Why this surfaced

    Direction threshold: above +2% constructive; below -2% caution; otherwise monitor. This is not labeled one-year growth when filing periods have a gap. Period end 2025-09-30.

  • Free cash flow was positive

    Latest reported free cash flow was $488M.

    Why this surfaced

    Free cash flow = operating cash flow minus capital expenditures; positive is supporting evidence, not a valuation conclusion. Period end 2025-09-30.

Core trend metrics

Latest annual revenue growth
+3.0%
as of 2025-09-30
Latest annual operating margin
9.8%
as of 2025-09-30
Free cash flow
$488M
as of 2025-09-30
Debt / equity
1.98x
as of 2025-09-30
ROIC snapshot
5.9%
period varies

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Where to look next

Risk checks

2of 12 rule-based checks flagged
  • Earnings quality
  • Solvency & liquidity

Financial movement

  • Cash→ flat
  • Long-term debt→ flat
  • Inventory→ flat
  • Receivables→ flat
  • Current assets→ flat

Source & freshness

Source
SEC EDGAR XBRL
Fetched
2026-09-06
Latest period end
2025-09-30
Filings
EDGAR ↗

Reported segment mix

figures as filed · share of the filed sum · change vs the prior period in the same filing
Fiscal year ending 2025-09-3010-K filed 2025-11-21prior period 2024-09-30 from the same filingView filing
By product or service
Revenue
  • Product Eliminations-$3M
    100.0%
    no prior

Members sum to -$3M against $8.16B consolidated (residual $8.16B) - eliminations or corporate lines the filer did not tag on this axis.

Latest quarter
Quarter ending 2026-03-3110-Q filed 2026-05-07prior period 2025-03-31 from the same filingView filing
  • Product Eliminations-$800K
    100.0%
    no prior

Change is against the same quarter a year earlier, as reported in the same 10-Q.

Source: SEC DERA Financial Statement and Notes data sets. Dimensional XBRL facts on the business-segment, product/service and geographic axes; the engine keeps the accession of every figure. Descriptive and educational, not advice.

Peer percentiles

latest fiscal year ending 2025-09-30 · among 4,058 US-listed filers · 480 in Consumer
MetricValuevs all filersvs sector
Revenue
latest fiscal-year revenue as filed
$8.2B
86thof 3,301
top third
76thof 465
top third
Revenue growth
latest fiscal-year revenue vs the prior fiscal year
3.0%
39thof 3,137
middle third
46thof 452
middle third
Gross margin
gross profit ÷ revenue
28.7%
34thof 1,603
middle third
38thof 330
middle third
Operating margin
operating income ÷ revenue
9.8%
68thof 2,819
top third
75thof 434
top third
Net margin
net income ÷ revenue
4.1%
56thof 3,263
middle third
60thof 461
middle third
Free-cash-flow margin
(operating cash flow − |capex|) ÷ revenue
6.0%
54thof 2,679
middle third
64thof 418
middle third
Return on equity
net income ÷ stockholders' equity (positive equity only)
8.9%
63rdof 3,577
middle third
53rdof 412
middle third
Interest coverage
operating income ÷ interest expense (interest expense > 0)
2.2×
56thof 819
middle third
44thof 134
middle third
Stock comp ÷ revenue
stock-based compensation ÷ revenue · lower is ranked higher
1.0%
67thof 2,895
top third
35thof 416
middle third
Days sales outstanding
receivables ÷ revenue × 365 · lower is ranked higher
33 days
70thof 2,398
top third
38thof 384
middle third
Net debt ÷ operating cash flow
net debt ÷ operating cash flow (OCF > 0) · lower is ranked higher
7.3×
16thof 1,547
bottom third
13thof 242
bottom third
Cash conversion
operating cash flow ÷ net income (net income > 0)
3.0×
81stof 1,954
top third
79thof 275
top third
Cash-flow accrual ratio
(net income − operating cash flow) ÷ average total assets · lower is ranked higher
-5.0%
56thof 2,770
middle third
52ndof 331
middle third
Balance-sheet accrual ratio
change in net operating assets ÷ average net operating assets · lower is ranked higher
8.4%
43rdof 2,345
middle third
34thof 257
middle third

Each filer's latest fiscal year as stored by the nightly crawl; fiscal year ends differ across the universe. A metric ranks only filers for which it is computable from filed facts. Ties split; a rank reads "better than N% of filers" in the metric's own direction. Descriptive and educational, not a rating.

Earnings quality

latest fiscal year ending 2025-09-30 · accruals and cash conversion as filed
Cash conversion
2.97×
operating cash flow ÷ net income, latest fiscal year
Cash-flow accrual ratio
-5.0%
(net income − operating cash flow) ÷ average total assets
Balance-sheet accrual ratio
8.4%
change in net operating assets ÷ average net operating assets
Cash-backed years
4 of 5
fiscal years where operating cash flow met or exceeded net income
Mean cash conversion
2.41×
across the stored fiscal years with positive net income

Per fiscal year from filed facts: cash conversion = operating cash flow / net income (net income > 0); cash-flow accrual ratio = (net income - operating cash flow) / average total assets; balance-sheet accrual ratio = change in net operating assets / average net operating assets, NOA = (assets - cash) - (liabilities - debt). Descriptive; a missing input yields a missing ratio. High accrual ratios and cash conversion well below one are the measures the accruals literature associates with less persistent earnings; they are screens to read the cash-flow statement with, not conclusions. The per-year series is part of Pro risk analysis.

Point-in-time ledger

first-reported vs latest filing · periods since 2020-01-01 · 37 changed periods, 30 largest shown
Line itemPeriodFirst reportedLatest filingChangeFilings
Operating income
OperatingIncomeLoss
quarter 2021-12-31$129M
10-Q 2022-02-04
$78.2M
10-Q 2023-02-03
-39.2%first · latest
Operating income
OperatingIncomeLoss
fiscal year 2021-09-30$656M
10-K 2021-11-19
$488M
10-K 2023-11-17
-25.6%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Operating income
OperatingIncomeLoss
quarter 2021-06-30$207M
10-Q 2021-08-06
$155M
10-Q 2022-08-05
-24.9%first · latest
Operating income
OperatingIncomeLoss
fiscal year 2020-09-30$701M
10-K 2020-11-20
$537M
10-K 2022-11-17
-23.4%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Gross profit
GrossProfit
quarter 2021-06-30$479M
10-Q 2021-08-06
$368M
10-Q 2022-08-05
-23.2%first · latest
Gross profit
GrossProfit
quarter 2021-12-31$424M
10-Q 2022-02-04
$332M
10-Q 2023-02-03
-21.8%first · latest
Revenue
Revenues
quarter 2021-06-30$1.59B
10-Q 2021-08-06
$1.25B
10-Q 2022-08-05
-21.5%first · latest
Gross profit
GrossProfit
fiscal year 2021-09-30$1.81B
10-K 2021-11-19
$1.43B
10-K 2023-11-17
-21.3%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Depreciation and amortization
DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization
quarter 2021-03-31$113M
10-Q 2021-05-07
$89.5M
10-Q 2022-05-06
-21.1%first · latest
Revenue
Revenues
fiscal year 2021-09-30$6.23B
10-K 2021-11-19
$4.98B
10-K 2023-11-17
-20.0%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Gross profit
GrossProfit
quarter 2021-03-31$451M
10-Q 2021-05-07
$364M
10-Q 2022-05-06
-19.3%first · latest
Revenue
Revenues
quarter 2021-03-31$1.48B
10-Q 2021-05-07
$1.2B
10-Q 2022-05-06
-19.0%first · latest
Gross profit
GrossProfit
fiscal year 2020-09-30$1.79B
10-K 2020-11-20
$1.45B
10-K 2022-11-17
-18.9%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Cash
CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue
balance at 2021-09-30$817M
10-K 2021-11-19
$665M
10-K 2022-11-17
-18.7%first · latest · 5 filings carry it
Revenue
Revenues
quarter 2021-12-31$1.64B
10-Q 2022-02-04
$1.34B
10-Q 2023-02-03
-18.6%first · latest
Receivables
ReceivablesNetCurrent
balance at 2021-09-30$554M
10-K 2021-11-19
$452M
10-K 2022-11-17
-18.3%first · latest
Revenue
Revenues
fiscal year 2020-09-30$5.7B
10-K 2020-11-20
$4.71B
10-K 2022-11-17
-17.3%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Depreciation and amortization
DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization
quarter 2021-06-30$109M
10-Q 2021-08-06
$91.7M
10-Q 2022-08-05
-16.2%first · latest
Interest expense
InterestExpense
fiscal year 2020-09-30$389M
10-K 2020-11-20
$334M
10-K 2022-11-17
-14.1%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Stock-based compensation
ShareBasedCompensation
fiscal year 2020-09-30$49.7M
10-K 2020-11-20
$43.3M
10-K 2022-11-17
-12.9%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Depreciation and amortization
DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization
fiscal year 2021-09-30$420M
10-K 2021-11-19
$367M
10-K 2023-11-17
-12.8%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Stock-based compensation
ShareBasedCompensation
fiscal year 2021-09-30$55.8M
10-K 2021-11-19
$48.7M
10-K 2023-11-17
-12.7%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Stock-based compensation
ShareBasedCompensation
quarter 2021-12-31$16.2M
10-Q 2022-02-04
$14.2M
10-Q 2023-02-03
-12.3%first · latest
Interest expense
InterestExpense
quarter 2021-03-31$94.8M
10-Q 2021-05-07
$83.5M
10-Q 2022-05-06
-11.9%first · latest
Interest expense
InterestExpense
fiscal year 2021-09-30$376M
10-K 2021-11-19
$333M
10-K 2023-11-17
-11.5%first · latest · 3 filings carry it
Operating income
OperatingIncomeLoss
quarter 2021-03-31$145M
10-Q 2021-05-07
$130M
10-Q 2022-05-06
-10.8%first · latest
Interest expense
InterestExpense
quarter 2021-06-30$91.9M
10-Q 2021-08-06
$82.4M
10-Q 2022-08-05
-10.3%first · latest
Interest expense
InterestExpense
quarter 2021-12-31$91.2M
10-Q 2022-02-04
$82.8M
10-Q 2023-02-03
-9.2%first · latest
Intangibles
IntangibleAssetsNetExcludingGoodwill
balance at 2021-09-30$3.15B
10-K 2021-11-19
$2.92B
10-K 2022-11-17
-7.1%first · latest · 5 filings carry it
Long-term debt
LongTermDebtNoncurrent
balance at 2021-09-30$6.92B
10-K 2021-11-19
$6.44B
10-K 2022-11-17
-7.0%first · latest · 5 filings carry it

First filing reporting each period vs the latest filing carrying it (10-K and 10-Q only, periods since 2020, the extractor's winning tag per concept); a change under 0.5% is treated as rounding. A change can be a restatement, a reclassification or a re-tagging in a later comparative column; the two filings are linked so the reader can see which. Descriptive, not a verdict.

Notes by disclosure type

Not available for POST yet: no footnote text blocks on file for this filer in the ingested DERA files.

Fundamentals from SEC EDGAR. Scores, the DCF, and every model shown are educational analysis, not investment advice or price predictions.

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