Operating margin trend, in percentage points per year

Operating margin trend, in percentage points per year

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Growth — Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

How it is worked out

Slope of the annual operating margin, in percentage points per year

Which way the margin is heading. Measured in points rather than percent because a percentage cannot cross zero, so a narrowing loss would otherwise register as no improvement at all.

How to read it

flat earns a 4, +3pp/yr a 10, −3pp/yr a 1

Which figures it needs

Computed from 2 figures taken from the filing:

• operating_income
• 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.

• OperatingIncomeLoss
• ProfitLossFromOperatingActivities
• RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax
• Revenues
• RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax
• SalesRevenueNet
• SalesRevenueServicesNet
• RevenueFromContractsWithCustomers
• Revenue

Whether it counts

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