Prepaid revenue growth: change in deferred revenue

Prepaid revenue growth: change in deferred revenue

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Durability — How predictable is the revenue, and how much of it is already committed?

How it is worked out

Deferred revenue against the balance a year earlier

Deferred revenue is cash customers have already paid for service not yet delivered. Growing faster than revenue means customers are committing further ahead. It moves with billing timing as well as demand, so it is noisy.

How to read it

the same question as the measure above for a filer that discloses no backlog, so it reaches companies that one cannot. Noisier: deferred revenue moves with billing timing as well as with demand

Which figures it needs

Computed from 1 figure taken from the filing:

• deferred_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.

• ContractWithCustomerLiabilityCurrent
• DeferredRevenueCurrent

Whether it counts

This measure is not counted by default. It can be added to Durability on the dashboard, and it then takes its share of that dimension.