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OKTA

Okta

Technology · fiscal year ending 2026-01-31 · pays no dividend

Through the investors’ lenses

1 of 2 cleared5 of 7 criteria

Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.

Warren Buffett 4/4
MeasureOKTAChecked against
Owner earnings$239.00mpositive
Return on equity3.4%US median 2.8%
Debt to equity0.00xUS median 0.57x
Operating margin5.1%US median 3.1%

Passes 4 of 4. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to Okta’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Benjamin Graham 1/3
MeasureOKTAChecked against
Current ratio1.43x2.00x published
Long-term debt to working capital0.00x1.00x published
Positive earnings, ten years running2 yrs10 published

Passes 1 of 3. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to Okta’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

The business

MeasureOKTAMedianFormula
Return on equity3.4%2.8%Net income ÷ shareholders’ equity
Return on capital employed2.1%5.1%Operating income ÷ (equity + total debt)
Owner earnings$239.00m$1.09mNet income + depreciation & amortisation − capital expenditure
Free cash flow$875.00m$7.57mOperating cash flow − capital expenditure
Operating margin5.1%3.1%Operating income ÷ revenue
Net margin8.1%2.0%Net income ÷ revenue
Debt to equity0.00x0.57xTotal debt ÷ shareholders’ equity
Interest cover37.25x1.01xOperating income ÷ interest expense
Current ratio1.43x1.69xCurrent assets ÷ current liabilities
Long-term debt to working capital0.00x1.09xLong-term debt ÷ (current assets − current liabilities)
Cash conversion3.76x1.58xOperating cash flow ÷ net income
Accruals-6.7%-4.7%(Net income − operating cash flow) ÷ total assets

Ten years of it

The same measures, for every year the filings support. One year is a fact; a row is a business.

Measure2026202520242023202220212020201920182017Median
Return on equity3.4%0.4%-6.0%-14.9%-14.3%-38.4%-51.6%-49.7%-55.1%-14.9%
Return on capital employed2.1%-1.1%-7.3%-10.6%-9.9%-13.2%-15.0%-47.4%-9.9%
Operating margin5.1%-2.8%-22.8%-43.7%-59.1%-24.4%-31.7%-30.0%-43.6%-46.4%-31.7%
Net margin8.1%1.1%-15.7%-43.9%-65.2%-31.9%-35.6%-31.4%-42.8%-46.7%-35.6%
Debt to equity0.00x0.05x0.20x0.40x0.31x1.24x2.07x0.00x0.31x
Current ratio1.43x1.35x1.67x2.20x2.45x1.86x2.92x1.24x1.69x0.69x1.67x
Cash conversion3.76x26.79x3.76x

This company pays no dividend, so there is no payout ratio to compute and no coverage rating. Every figure above comes from its own SEC filing. How these are computed.

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