Cash Quality

What is Days Sales Outstanding?

How many days, on average, the company waits to collect cash after a sale.

How it is calculated

Accounts receivable divided by revenue, scaled to the period’s length in days.

How to read it

Rising days can mean customers are struggling to pay or that sales were pulled forward at period end.

Where the numbers come from

Scrutar computes Days Sales Outstanding from the figures each company reports to the SEC in its annual and quarterly filings, using the XBRL data attached to those filings.

More Cash Quality metrics

FCF MarginThe share of revenue that becomes free cash.How to read it →FCF / Net IncomeHow much of reported profit shows up as free cash. Sometimes called cash conversion.How to read it →Capex / D&AWhether the company is investing more in its assets than they wear out.How to read it →SBC / RevenueStock compensation as a share of sales, a measure of how much of the business is being paid to employees in shares.How to read it →Accruals RatioThe gap between accounting profit and cash profit, relative to the size of the company. High accruals often precede disappointing earnings.How to read it →Days InventoryHow many days of sales are sitting in inventory.How to read it →Days PayableHow many days the company takes to pay its suppliers.How to read it →Cash Conversion CycleHow many days cash is tied up between paying suppliers and collecting from customers. Negative means customers pay before suppliers are paid.How to read it →

See it for a real company

Ten years of Days Sales Outstanding and every other metric on this page, for every company Scrutar covers, computed from SEC filings.

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