ODCOil-Dri Corporation of America
Is the business good?
A genuinely good business: earnings fully cash-backed (1.4×) and margins widening.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash.
Negative operating leverage, costs are rising faster than sales, squeezing margins as it grows.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 20% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
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.
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 7.4% · 12 months to Q3 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.44×
Cash conversion · 1.52× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- 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 is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.
Specialty Chemicals
Ranks #12 of 33 by RyuScore