Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capital®
56% incremental operating margins on 48% YoY growth for Google Cloud ☁️ — and the first quarter Cloud operating margins reached 30%.

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Chris Hohn, founder of TCI, views high incremental margins as one of the strongest signals of a company’s moat & pricing power💸

Incremental operating margin tells you how much additional operating income a business generates for every additional $1 of revenue.

Here’s how to calculate it:

Pick two periods (Year 1 → Year 2)

Year 1 Revenue: $10B
Year 2 Revenue: $12B
Δ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞: $𝟐𝐁

Year 1 Operating Income: $2B
Year 2 Operating Income: $3B
Δ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞: $𝟏𝐁

𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧 = Δ 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 / Δ 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞

So: $1B / $2B = 50%

𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: 50 cents of every new $1 of revenue fell to operating profit.
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Why this matters: High incremental margins usually signal low incremental costs, pricing power, & structural operating leverage — the traits that allow a great business to compound faster as it scales. It’s one of the cleanest ways to see whether a company’s moat is strengthening & efficiently scaling.

I’ve included 4 high-quality stocks with their incremental operating margins since 2021 for further example 👇🏽

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