Is the business good?
How good a business is ODC?
Oil-Dri Corporation of America earns 23% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
23%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 14 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 13%
Operating margin · Specialty Chemicals median 9.1% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.89×
Cash conversion · 0.92× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Gross margin
- 28%
Gross margin
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 8.8% |
| FY2021 | 4.3% |
| FY2022 | 1.4% |
| FY2023 | 9.9% |
| FY2024 | 12% |
| FY2025 | 14% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 28%
- Operating margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 13%
- Net margin12 months to Q3 2026
- 11%
- Free cash flow margin
- 10%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $490M
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $49M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $56M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 23%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
Specialty Chemicals
Ranks #16 of 36 by Smart Score