# Transurban Group (TCL.AU)

Canonical: https://gigainvestors.com/s/TCL.AU

Analysis as of: 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z. Financial observations: FY2000–FY2026.

Listing currency: AUD. Reporting currency: AUD.

## Verdict

Not a wonderful business

Quality tests for Buy: not passed (profit record: pass; earnings resilience is evidence only). Published buy qualification: no.

Share price: AUD 13.59 per share; close as of 2026-10-15.

Estimated value: low AUD 1.81 per share, central AUD 1.97 per share, high AUD 2.18 per share. Buy at or below the central value AUD 1.97 per share. Valuation as of 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z; scenarios are not confidence intervals.

Expected annual return: 3.7% at the stated quote. About 3.7% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%). required return 10.0% a year (10% floor; AU 10-year bond 5.2% + 4 points).

## Checklist

### understandable: pass

- 4 revenue declines in the last 10 years (informational)

- Financial history: 10 years

- Years with declining revenue: 4

- Years with a net loss: 2

- Operating margin variation: 0.24×

Chart: Operating margin; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 0.33×

- FY2018: 0.30×

- FY2019: 0.25×

- FY2020: 0.17×

- FY2021: 0.17×

- FY2022: 0.16×

- FY2023: 0.23×

- FY2024: 0.27×

- FY2025: 0.25×

- FY2026: 0.29×

### moat: fail

- ROIC median below threshold

- ROIC worst years below threshold (more than 1 bad year allowed)

- ROIC, median of available years: 3.6%

- ROIC, second-lowest year: 1.6%

- Typical minus recent gross margin: -0.3 pp

- Typical gross margin (annual median): 31.3%

- Recent gross margin (lower of latest and 3-year median): 31.6%

- Years with nonpositive capital: 0

- Capital spending / revenue: 21.0%

- ROIC including acquisitions, ten-year median: 1.4%

Chart: ROIC excluding acquisitions; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: 5.4%

- FY2018: 5.2%

- FY2019: 4.1%

- FY2020: 1.6%

- FY2021: 1.6%

- FY2022: 1.8%

- FY2023: 3.3%

- FY2024: 3.9%

- FY2025: 3.3%

- FY2026: 4.2%

### economics: fail

- working capital as a share of revenue rose more than 10pp and ends positive

- Owner earnings / net income, 5-yr: 2.82×

- Cash conversion uses consolidated totals: No

- Owner earnings, five-year total: AUD 2.6B

- Net income, five-year total: AUD 908M

- Return on incremental invested capital: >100%

- Working capital / revenue, annual change: 2.0 pp

- Working capital / revenue, change between three-year averages: 14.1 pp

- Working capital / revenue, final three-year average: 3.7%

Chart: Annual owner cash / profit; fiscal year observations.

- FY2022: 27.00×

- FY2023: 1.00×

- FY2024: 0.86×

- FY2025: 2.43×

- FY2026: 3.78×

### management: fail

- Historical market-dollar context (not the management verdict): 2017 to 2026 (9 years)

- potential debt-funded buybacks (informational)

- buybacks unrelated to price (informational)

- ROIC first 3 years vs last 3 years: 5.2% vs 3.9%

- Per-share earnings: 0.12 to 0.11 (three-year endpoint medians)

- per-share value declined or ends nonpositive

- five-year and ten-year diluted share growth both above threshold

- Management verdict uses per-share economic progress: Yes

- Ordinary dilution, 10-year annual growth: 4.3%

- Ordinary dilution, 5-year annual growth: 1.4%

- Market cap gain: AUD 21B

- Cumulative retained earnings: AUD -2.3B

- Diluted shares, 10-year annual growth: 4.3%

- Diluted shares, 5-year annual growth: 1.4%

- $1 test, starting fiscal year: FY2017

- $1 test, ending fiscal year: FY2026

- Per-share value growth: -1.2%

- Per-share value change: AUD -0.01

- Per-share value, starting three-year median: AUD 0.12

- Per-share value, ending three-year median: AUD 0.11

- Average buyback yield: 5.7%

- Buyback history: 1 years

- Debt-funded buybacks: Yes

- Acquisition spending: AUD 8.2B

- Cumulative net income, 10 years: AUD 1.3B

- ROIC, first three-year median: 5.2%

- ROIC, last three-year median: 3.9%

Chart: Earnings per share; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: AUD 0.12

- FY2018: AUD 0.20

- FY2019: AUD 0.06

- FY2020: AUD -0.04

- FY2021: AUD -0.15

- FY2022: AUD 0.01

- FY2023: AUD 0.02

- FY2024: AUD 0.11

- FY2025: AUD 0.04

- FY2026: AUD 0.12

### accounting: pass

- Sloan accruals: -4.8%

- Receivables to sales index (DSRI): 1.15×

- Restructuring years, last five: 0

- Stock compensation / operating cash flow: 0.0%

- Earnings backed by cash: Yes

- Operating cash / earnings: 5.64×

- Accounting red flags: 0

- Goodwill and intangibles / equity: 2.39×

Chart: Sloan accruals; fiscal year observations.

- FY2017: -2.6%

- FY2018: -2.1%

- FY2019: -2.9%

- FY2020: -3.3%

- FY2021: -3.7%

- FY2022: -2.8%

- FY2023: -3.7%

- FY2024: -3.6%

- FY2025: -3.9%

- FY2026: -4.8%

## Holders

## Price story

Price needs cash profits to grow 30.7% a year for ten years · sales +2.1%

Story as of 2026-10-16T10:00:00.144Z; price observation 2026-10-15.

Price needs cash profits to grow 30.7% a year for ten years

- 2025-08-20: Transurban Group Full Year 2025 Earnings: Revenues Miss Expectations ([finance.yahoo.com](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/transurban-group-full-2025-earnings-201312050.html))

### Sales · FY2025–2026

sales +2.1%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2017: AUD 2.7B 

- FY2018: AUD 3.3B 

- FY2019: AUD 4.2B 

- FY2020: AUD 3.2B 

- FY2021: AUD 2.9B 

- FY2022: AUD 3.4B 

- FY2023: AUD 4.2B 

- FY2024: AUD 4.1B 

- FY2025: AUD 3.8B 

- FY2026: AUD 3.8B 

### Gross margin · FY2026

gross margin 31.6%; source https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/; observed 2026-10-16.

- FY2017: 59.9% 

- FY2018: 54.1% 

- FY2019: 51.1% 

- FY2020: 21.7% 

- FY2021: 22.8% 

- FY2022: 21.4% 

- FY2023: 28.0% 

- FY2024: 31.1% 

- FY2025: 68.0% 

- FY2026: 31.6% 

## Owner memo

Memo as of 2026-10-16T08:06:05.509Z.

### How it makes money

Operates in infrastructure operations; annual sales are AUD 3.8 billion.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2026: revenue 3848000000; grossProfit 1217000000; margin = grossProfit / revenue.

### Why customers stay

Margins ranged from 31.1% to 68% during 2024–26; it earns 3.6% on its capital.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2024: grossProfit / revenue = 31.1%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2025: grossProfit / revenue = 68%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2026: grossProfit / revenue = 31.6%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); 10-year return on capital observations [[2017,0.054309256029349856],[2018,0.052183451734224826],[2019,0.0408520804300219],[2020,0.016137167636654112],[2021,0.016231957887587026],[2022,0.017873371705543775],[2023,0.032999164578111945],[2024,0.039428416172327764],[2025,0.03329768270944741],[2026,0.04212587842248761]]; median 0.036363049440887585. ROIC follows the displayed moat series; financial companies use return on tangible equity.

### Where the cash goes

Paid dividends in 10 of 10 years.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2017: growth capex 0; upkeep 131000000; owner earnings 736000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2018: growth capex 0; upkeep 131000000; owner earnings 1025000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2019: growth capex 0; upkeep 133000000; owner earnings 1033000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2022: growth capex 0; upkeep 613000000; owner earnings 513000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2023: growth capex 64000000; upkeep 1111000000; owner earnings 64000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 1.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2024: growth capex 0; upkeep 1116000000; owner earnings 279000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2025: growth capex 0; upkeep 907000000; owner earnings 323000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); FY2026: growth capex 0; upkeep 143000000; owner earnings 1385000000. Growth capex / owner earnings = 0.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); Dividend observations: [[2017,891000000],[2018,1146000000],[2019,1549000000],[2020,1682000000],[2021,908000000],[2022,942000000],[2023,1489000000],[2024,1743000000],[2025,2118000000],[2026,1934000000]]. Zero only counted when supported by a complete cash-flow statement.

### Are managers owners

Insiders own 0.3% of the company.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16); TCL.AU SharesStats.PercentInsiders = 0.28400000000000003 percentage points; cache date 2026-10-16.

### What the price says

The price assumes cash profits grow 30.7% yearly over ten years; actual growth was 4.1%.

- Source: https://eodhd.com/financial-apis/stock-etfs-fundamental-data-feeds/ (filed 2026-10-16T07:34:20.530Z); Ten-year compound average after fade. Initial solved rate 0.43861091478645. Price 13.59; FX 1; discount 0.1; same standard ten-year fade to terminal 0.03. FY2016 owner earnings/share 0.2964233219010289 → FY2026 0.4438841070836917. Closing-price date 2026-10-15.

## Monthly share-price history (AUD per share)

- 2016-10: AUD 10.09 per share

- 2016-11: AUD 10.23 per share

- 2016-12: AUD 10.02 per share

- 2017-01: AUD 9.90 per share

- 2017-02: AUD 10.71 per share

- 2017-03: AUD 11.33 per share

- 2017-04: AUD 11.85 per share

- 2017-05: AUD 11.96 per share

- 2017-06: AUD 11.51 per share

- 2017-07: AUD 11.08 per share

- 2017-08: AUD 11.81 per share

- 2017-09: AUD 11.54 per share

- 2017-10: AUD 11.78 per share

- 2017-11: AUD 12.19 per share

- 2017-12: AUD 12.13 per share

- 2018-01: AUD 11.73 per share

- 2018-02: AUD 11.30 per share

- 2018-03: AUD 11.15 per share

- 2018-04: AUD 11.32 per share

- 2018-05: AUD 11.59 per share

- 2018-06: AUD 11.69 per share

- 2018-07: AUD 11.42 per share

- 2018-08: AUD 11.77 per share

- 2018-09: AUD 11.13 per share

- 2018-10: AUD 11.25 per share

- 2018-11: AUD 11.30 per share

- 2018-12: AUD 11.55 per share

- 2019-01: AUD 12.07 per share

- 2019-02: AUD 12.37 per share

- 2019-03: AUD 13.09 per share

- 2019-04: AUD 13.33 per share

- 2019-05: AUD 13.81 per share

- 2019-06: AUD 14.62 per share

- 2019-07: AUD 15.42 per share

- 2019-08: AUD 14.83 per share

- 2019-09: AUD 14.57 per share

- 2019-10: AUD 14.72 per share

- 2019-11: AUD 15.22 per share

- 2019-12: AUD 14.79 per share

- 2020-01: AUD 15.57 per share

- 2020-02: AUD 14.73 per share

- 2020-03: AUD 11.94 per share

- 2020-04: AUD 13.69 per share

- 2020-05: AUD 14.17 per share

- 2020-06: AUD 14.01 per share

- 2020-07: AUD 13.70 per share

- 2020-08: AUD 13.35 per share

- 2020-09: AUD 13.99 per share

- 2020-10: AUD 13.35 per share

- 2020-11: AUD 13.90 per share

- 2020-12: AUD 13.55 per share

- 2021-01: AUD 13.13 per share

- 2021-02: AUD 12.69 per share

- 2021-03: AUD 13.21 per share

- 2021-04: AUD 14.05 per share

- 2021-05: AUD 13.76 per share

- 2021-06: AUD 14.11 per share

- 2021-07: AUD 14.18 per share

- 2021-08: AUD 14.09 per share

- 2021-09: AUD 14.16 per share

- 2021-10: AUD 13.44 per share

- 2021-11: AUD 13.66 per share

- 2021-12: AUD 13.82 per share

- 2022-01: AUD 12.45 per share

- 2022-02: AUD 12.69 per share

- 2022-03: AUD 13.55 per share

- 2022-04: AUD 14.34 per share

- 2022-05: AUD 14.37 per share

- 2022-06: AUD 14.38 per share

- 2022-07: AUD 14.51 per share

- 2022-08: AUD 13.96 per share

- 2022-09: AUD 12.34 per share

- 2022-10: AUD 13.26 per share

- 2022-11: AUD 14.29 per share

- 2022-12: AUD 12.98 per share

- 2023-01: AUD 13.81 per share

- 2023-02: AUD 14.18 per share

- 2023-03: AUD 14.21 per share

- 2023-04: AUD 14.99 per share

- 2023-05: AUD 14.84 per share

- 2023-06: AUD 14.25 per share

- 2023-07: AUD 14.34 per share

- 2023-08: AUD 13.26 per share

- 2023-09: AUD 12.69 per share

- 2023-10: AUD 11.82 per share

- 2023-11: AUD 12.96 per share

- 2023-12: AUD 13.71 per share

- 2024-01: AUD 13.51 per share

- 2024-02: AUD 13.54 per share

- 2024-03: AUD 13.32 per share

- 2024-04: AUD 12.54 per share

- 2024-05: AUD 12.51 per share

- 2024-06: AUD 12.40 per share

- 2024-07: AUD 13.01 per share

- 2024-08: AUD 13.55 per share

- 2024-09: AUD 13.13 per share

- 2024-10: AUD 12.71 per share

- 2024-11: AUD 12.80 per share

- 2024-12: AUD 13.39 per share

- 2025-01: AUD 13.38 per share

- 2025-02: AUD 13.15 per share

- 2025-03: AUD 13.39 per share

- 2025-04: AUD 14.11 per share

- 2025-05: AUD 14.18 per share

- 2025-06: AUD 13.98 per share

- 2025-07: AUD 13.82 per share

- 2025-08: AUD 14.60 per share

- 2025-09: AUD 13.80 per share

- 2025-10: AUD 14.48 per share

- 2025-11: AUD 14.93 per share

- 2025-12: AUD 14.21 per share

- 2026-01: AUD 13.95 per share

- 2026-02: AUD 14.34 per share

- 2026-03: AUD 14.01 per share

- 2026-04: AUD 14.00 per share

- 2026-05: AUD 14.98 per share

- 2026-06: AUD 14.38 per share

- 2026-07: AUD 14.81 per share

- 2026-08: AUD 14.30 per share

- 2026-09: AUD 13.24 per share

- 2026-10: AUD 13.51 per share

## Annual estimated value (AUD per share)

- FY2017: low AUD 4.44 per share, central AUD 4.98 per share, high AUD 5.70 per share

- FY2018: low AUD 4.50 per share, central AUD 5.05 per share, high AUD 5.78 per share

- FY2019: low AUD 5.02 per share, central AUD 5.63 per share, high AUD 6.45 per share

- FY2020: low AUD 4.21 per share, central AUD 4.68 per share, high AUD 5.30 per share

- FY2021: low AUD 4.14 per share, central AUD 4.51 per share, high AUD 5.00 per share

- FY2022: low AUD 2.46 per share, central AUD 2.71 per share, high AUD 3.05 per share

- FY2023: low AUD 0.87 per share, central AUD 0.91 per share, high AUD 0.95 per share

- FY2024: low AUD 0.86 per share, central AUD 0.89 per share, high AUD 0.93 per share

- FY2025: low AUD 1.43 per share, central AUD 1.55 per share, high AUD 1.72 per share

- FY2026: low AUD 1.81 per share, central AUD 1.97 per share, high AUD 2.18 per share

Historical values use today's bond yield for every fiscal year

Historical values use today's FX rate into trading currency for every fiscal year

Historical values use current restated fundamentals and current commodity classification; they are not point-in-time estimates

## Sources

Estimates depend on assumptions and are not guarantees or investment advice. Underlying data remains subject to its source licenses; public reading does not grant bulk redistribution rights.
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Transurban Group

TCL · AU

S&P/ASX 200

Not a wonderful business

3 quality tests fail. A lower price would not fix the business.

Share price
AUD 13.59
Buy up to
AUD 1.97
Expected / yr
3.7% at today's price (10.0% at central value)

The business

How it makes money
Why customers stay
Where the cash goes
Are managers owners
What the price says

1. Is this a good business?

Evidence only; not required for Buy

Margins varied 23.8% around their average (limit 35%), and 2 loss years were recorded (limit 2).

10y median
24.7%
Worst year
15.6%
Latest · 2026
28.5%

Capital return excluding acquisitions: median 3.6% (minimum 15%), and the second-worst year 1.6% (minimum 10%).

10y median
3.6%
Worst year
1.6%
Latest · 2026
4.2%

Working capital rose 14.1% of sales (limit 10%) to 3.7% (waived at zero or below).

Five-year totals
2.82×
Annual median
2.43×
Latest · 2026
3.78×

Per-share value fell from 0.12 to 0.11, comparing three-year medians at each end (must rise and stay positive), and share growth was 4.3% over ten years and 1.4% over five (either must be at most 1% a year).

10y median
AUD 0.05
Worst year
AUD -0.15
Latest · 2026
AUD 0.12

Profits were backed by cash: accruals were -4.8% of assets (limit 10%).

10y median
-3.4%
Worst year
-2.1%
Latest · 2026
-4.8%

Profit record · pass 2 loss years in 10 (at most 2), mean operating margin 24.1%, three-year average owner earnings per share 0.21 AUD.

2. Is the price low enough?

Price & return math
Value rangeAUD 1.81 – AUD 2.18
Buy at or belowCentral value AUD 1.97
Discount to value1 − 13.59 / 1.97 = -589.7%
Return / yearAbout 3.7% a year at today's price (required return 10.0%)
Cash-flow inputsOwner cash AUD 0.11/share; 0.0% growth for 5 years, then fades to 3.0%; excess cash AUD 0.66/share today.
Required return10.0% / year, earned by construction at the central value
RevenueAUD 3.8B
4.2B020172026
FY2017 · Revenue: AUD 2.7B; FY2018 · Revenue: AUD 3.3B; FY2019 · Revenue: AUD 4.2B; FY2020 · Revenue: AUD 3.2B; FY2021 · Revenue: AUD 2.9B; FY2022 · Revenue: AUD 3.4B; FY2023 · Revenue: AUD 4.2B; FY2024 · Revenue: AUD 4.1B; FY2025 · Revenue: AUD 3.8B; FY2026 · Revenue: AUD 3.8B
Revenue
Owner earningsAUD 1.4B
1.4B-538M20172026
FY2017 · Owner earnings: AUD 736M; FY2018 · Owner earnings: AUD 1.0B; FY2019 · Owner earnings: AUD 1.0B; FY2020 · Owner earnings: AUD -538M; FY2021 · Owner earnings: AUD -328M; FY2022 · Owner earnings: AUD 513M; FY2023 · Owner earnings: AUD 64M; FY2024 · Owner earnings: AUD 279M; FY2025 · Owner earnings: AUD 323M; FY2026 · Owner earnings: AUD 1.4B
Owner earnings
Operating margin28.5%
33.1%0.0%20172026
FY2017 · Operating margin: 33.1%; FY2018 · Operating margin: 30.3%; FY2019 · Operating margin: 24.6%; FY2020 · Operating margin: 16.9%; FY2021 · Operating margin: 16.8%; FY2022 · Operating margin: 15.6%; FY2023 · Operating margin: 22.8%; FY2024 · Operating margin: 27.5%; FY2025 · Operating margin: 24.8%; FY2026 · Operating margin: 28.5%
Operating margin
Net cash / debtAUD -19B
1.00-19B20172026
FY2017 · Net cash / debt: AUD -13B; FY2018 · Net cash / debt: AUD -14B; FY2019 · Net cash / debt: AUD -17B; FY2020 · Net cash / debt: AUD -19B; FY2021 · Net cash / debt: AUD -14B; FY2022 · Net cash / debt: AUD -16B; FY2023 · Net cash / debt: AUD -17B; FY2024 · Net cash / debt: AUD -18B; FY2025 · Net cash / debt: AUD -19B; FY2026 · Net cash / debt: AUD -19B
Net cash / debt
Diluted shares3.1B
3.1B020172026
FY2017 · Diluted shares: 2.1B; FY2018 · Diluted shares: 2.5B; FY2019 · Diluted shares: 2.8B; FY2020 · Diluted shares: 2.8B; FY2021 · Diluted shares: 2.9B; FY2022 · Diluted shares: 3.1B; FY2023 · Diluted shares: 3.1B; FY2024 · Diluted shares: 3.1B; FY2025 · Diluted shares: 3.1B; FY2026 · Diluted shares: 3.1B
Diluted shares
Prices 15 Oct 2026 · FY2026