EBITDA 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 income + depreciation and amortisation) ÷ revenue × 100

Operating profit with the non-cash charge for wearing out assets added back. It flatters a business that has to keep replacing them, which is the whole reason this model scores the operating margin as well.

How to read it

adds back the cost of assets wearing out, so it says nothing about what replacing them will cost. Only measured where the filer tagged depreciation, which is about a quarter of the list

Which figures it needs

Computed from 3 figures taken from the filing:

operating_income
dep_amort
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
DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization
DepreciationAmortizationAndAccretionNet
DepreciationAndAmortization
Depreciation
DepreciationAndAmortisationExpense
DepreciationAmortisationAndImpairmentLossReversalOfImpairmentLossRecognisedInProfitOrLoss
AdjustmentsForDepreciationAndAmortisationExpense
AdjustmentsForDepreciationExpense
DepreciationExpense
DepreciationPropertyPlantAndEquipment
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.