Fortune Brands Innovations
FBIN · Building Products
$42.98
1.8%Lennox International
LII · Building Products
$376.01
0.7%The short version
- Lennox International is the larger business, with $5.2B of revenue in fiscal 2025 against $4.5B for Fortune Brands Innovations.
- Lennox International kept more of each dollar of sales as operating profit (20.1% operating margin, against 11.6% operating margin).
- Lennox International turned more of its sales into free cash flow (12.3% FCF margin, against 8.2% FCF margin).
- Lennox International earned a higher return on the capital invested in it (40.1%, against 7.7%).
- Investors pay more for each dollar of Fortune Brands Innovations’s earnings: a P/E of 34.7x against 16.7x for Lennox International.
| Latest fiscal year | FBIN · FY25 | LII · FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Size | ||
| Market cap | $5.1B | $13.2B |
| Revenue | $4.5B | $5.2B |
| Free cash flow | $367M | $639M |
| Net income | $299M | $806M |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth | −3.2% | −2.7% |
| 5-year growth | 4.3% | 7.4% |
| Share count change | −3.6% | −1.1% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | 44.6% | 33.4% |
| Operating margin | 11.6% | 20.1% |
| Net margin | 6.7% | 15.5% |
| FCF margin | 8.2% | 12.3% |
| Return on capital | 7.7% | 40.1% |
| Return on equity | 12.4% | 75.8% |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net debt | $2.3B | $1.4B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 3.2x | 1.2x |
| Dividends and buybacks | $368M | $655M |
| Valuation & quality | ||
| P/E | 34.7x | 16.7x |
| Piotroski F-score | 6 | 5 |
FY16
FBIN $5.0B
LII $3.6B
FY17
FBIN $5.3B
LII $3.8B
FY18
FBIN $5.5B
LII $3.9B
FY19
FBIN $5.8B
LII $3.8B
FY20
FBIN $3.6B
LII $3.6B
FY21
FBIN $4.8B
LII $4.2B
FY22
FBIN $4.7B
LII $4.7B
FY23
FBIN $4.6B
LII $5.0B
FY24
FBIN $4.6B
LII $5.3B
FY25
FBIN $4.5B
LII $5.2B
FBIN
LII
FY16
FBIN 12.4%
LII 11.8%
FY17
FBIN 12.9%
LII 12.9%
FY18
FBIN 10.9%
LII 13.1%
FY19
FBIN 12.1%
LII 17.3%
FY20
FBIN 15.7%
LII 13.2%
FY21
FBIN 16.9%
LII 14.1%
FY22
FBIN 16.4%
LII 13.9%
FY23
FBIN 13.3%
LII 15.9%
FY24
FBIN 16.0%
LII 19.5%
FY25
FBIN 11.6%
LII 20.1%
FBIN
LII
FY16
FBIN $501M
LII $290M
FY17
FBIN $435M
LII $227M
FY18
FBIN $454M
LII $400M
FY19
FBIN $505M
LII $291M
FY20
FBIN $675M
LII $534M
FY21
FBIN $475M
LII $409M
FY22
FBIN $320M
LII $201M
FY23
FBIN $799M
LII $486M
FY24
FBIN $475M
LII $782M
FY25
FBIN $367M
LII $639M
FBIN
LII
FY16
FBIN 12.7%
LII 35.8%
FY17
FBIN 14.0%
LII 35.5%
FY18
FBIN 10.1%
LII 42.9%
FY19
FBIN 11.1%
LII 58.6%
FY20
FBIN 9.3%
LII 42.8%
FY21
FBIN 11.7%
LII 55.4%
FY22
FBIN 12.0%
LII 48.3%
FY23
FBIN 10.3%
LII 43.8%
FY24
FBIN 11.7%
LII 50.9%
FY25
FBIN 7.7%
LII 40.1%
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