Gross margin stability across years, in percentage points

One of the 64 measures in Stock Scorer, under Durability — How predictable is the revenue, and how much of it is already committed?

How it is worked out

Standard deviation of the annual gross margin, in percentage points

Standard deviation is the typical distance from the average, so a low figure means the gross margin barely moves from year to year. Needs three years.

How to read it

flat earns a 10, 5pp of swing a 1

Highest on this measure

#	Company	Gross margin stability across years, in percentage points
1	BLSH Bullish	0.01 pp
2	VTR Ventas, Inc.	0.03 pp
3	MCY MERCURY GENERAL CORPORATION	0.03 pp
4	NPT Texxon Holding Limited	0.05 pp
5	SPG SIMON PROPERTY GROUP, INC.	0.06 pp
6	SGE.L THE SAGE GROUP PLC.	0.07 pp
7	SAFE Safehold Inc.	0.10 pp
8	ARCO Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc.	0.11 pp

The fifty highest on this measure, worked out from the same filings.

Which figures it needs

Computed from 3 figures taken from the filing:

gross_profit
cost_of_revenue
revenue

The XBRL tags behind it

These are the element names looked for in a filing, in order. The first one a company reports is the one used, and the company page names which it was — so any figure here can be checked against the filing it came from.

GrossProfit
CostOfRevenue
CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold
CostOfSales
CostOfGoodsAndServiceExcludingDepreciationDepletionAndAmortization
RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax
Revenues
RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax
SalesRevenueNet
SalesRevenueServicesNet
RevenueFromContractsWithCustomers
Revenue

Whether it counts

This measure is counted in Durability by default. It can be taken out on the dashboard, and the dimension is then measured over whatever is left.