Is the business good?
How good a business is TTD?
Trade Desk (The) earns 45% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
45%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 36 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 20%
Operating margin · Advertising Agencies median 11% · 12 months to Q1 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.95×
Cash conversion · 1.69× a year ago · every dollar of reported profit arrived as cash, and more
- Share count, year on year
- −5.2%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 17% |
| FY2021 | 10% |
| FY2022 | 7.2% |
| FY2023 | 10% |
| FY2024 | 17% |
| FY2025 | 20% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 78%
- Operating margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 20%
- Net margin12 months to Q1 2026
- 15%
- Free cash flow margin
- 28%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 18%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $2.97B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $842M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $433M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 45%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.
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Ranks #7 of 9 by Smart Score