Financial Services
Live Price
Offline$87.34
+0.31% today
1Y Change
+111.98%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026
Coverage: 244 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Encore Capital Group, Inc. (ECPG) is a Financial Services stock with a market cap of $1.81B and listed on NASDAQ. The stock last traded around $87.34 and up 112.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 15, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +33.9%, EPS growth of +289.5%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +33.9%, EPS +289.5%, free cash flow -0.2% with operating margin 35.4% and ROIC 9.0%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 7.3 and price/sales 1.0. Stock Foundry combines ECPG price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Financial Services peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
ECPG
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
ECPG Max Drawdown
-12.63%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for ECPG and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$1.6B
+15.5% YoY
FY Net Income
$350.8M
+80.3% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$269.7M
+101.1% YoY
Revenue Growth
+33.9%
EPS Growth
+289.5%
Gross Margin
74.1%
Net Margin
14.5%
Income statement
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| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.8B | 1.3B | 1.2B | 1.4B | 1.6B |
| Gross Profit | 1.2B | 604M | 571M | 770M | 928M |
| Operating Income | 624M | 157M | 17M | 462M | 633M |
| EBITDA | 653M | 174M | 63M | 511M | 656M |
| Net Income | 257M | -139M | -206M | 195M | 351M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 157M | 200M | 158M | 144M | 190M |
| Total Assets | 5.3B | 4.8B | 4.6B | 4.5B | 4.6B |
| Total Liabilities | 4.4B | 4.0B | 3.7B | 3.3B | 3.4B |
| Shareholder Equity | 977M | 767M | 937M | 1.2B | 1.2B |
| Total Debt | 4.1B | 3.7B | 3.3B | 2.9B | 3.0B |
| Net Debt | 4.0B | 3.5B | 3.2B | 2.8B | 2.8B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
303M
+43.8% YoY
Capital Expenditures
33M
+56.4% YoY
Free Cash Flow
270M
+101.1% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
74.1%
Operating Margin
35.4%
Net Margin
14.5%
ROE
28.2%
Debt / Equity
4.23x
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