OCF margin

Operating cash flow margin

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Quality — How much of the revenue is really kept — and what did it take to earn it?

How it is worked out

Operating cash flow ÷ revenue × 100

Operating cash flow is the cash the business itself threw off, before anything was spent on new assets. The share of sales that arrives as cash rather than as reported profit.

How to read it

the free-cash-flow margin before capital spending is taken out, so the gap between the two is what the business has to reinvest to keep running

Which figures it needs

Computed from 2 figures taken from the filing:

• ocf
• 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.

• NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities
• NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivitiesContinuingOperations
• CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities
• CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivitiesContinuingOperations
• RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax
• Revenues
• RevenueFromContractWithCustomerIncludingAssessedTax
• SalesRevenueNet
• SalesRevenueServicesNet
• RevenueFromContractsWithCustomers
• Revenue

Whether it counts

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