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Houlihan Lokey HLI Return on assets

Return on assets at other companies

Goldman Sachs Group logo
Goldman Sachs GroupGS
0.9%+0.1pp
Evercore logo
EvercoreEVR
19.7%+5.7pp
Jefferies Financial Group logo
Jefferies Financial GroupJEF
1%-0.1pp
CBRE Group logo
CBRE GroupCBRE
4.6%+0.6pp
Jones Lang LaSalle logo
Jones Lang LaSalleJLL
5.2%+1.8pp
LPL Financial Holdings logo
LPL Financial HoldingsLPLA
5.5%-3.2pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$635.6M-4.6%
Gross profit$230.7M+15.9%
Operating income$125.1M-11.3%
Net income$99.8M-18.1%
EPS (diluted)$1.48-16.4%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$1.2B+22.5%
Total debt$492.1M+12.3%
Total assets$4.3B+12.8%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$293.0M-18.2%
CapEx$6.3M-56.8%
Free cash flow$286.8M-16.6%

Valuation

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Market cap$9.72B-11.5%
Enterprise value$9.02B-13.6%
P/E22.8×-4.7×
P/S3.7×-0.9×

Profitability

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Gross margin32.8%+1.4pp
Operating margin20.1%-0.9pp
Net margin16.3%-0.5pp
FCF margin26%-7.8pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity9.5%

Where this comes from

Calculated from Houlihan Lokey’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Houlihan Lokey’s 10-K, filed May 22, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Houlihan Lokey's return on assets?
Houlihan Lokey (HLI) reported return on assets of 10.5% in Q1 2026.
How has Houlihan Lokey's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Houlihan Lokey's return on assets decreased by 8.4% year-over-year, from 11.4% to 10.5%.
What is the long-term trend for Houlihan Lokey's return on assets?
Over 5 years (2021 to 2026), Houlihan Lokey's return on assets has grown at a -7.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 15.2% to 10.5%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.