Optical Cable (OCC) FCF Margin (2010 - 2026)

Optical Cable (OCC) recorded quarterly FCF Margin of 6.26% in Q1 2026, up 72.77% quarter-over-quarter from 3.63% in Q4 2025, and down 1027.0% on a YoY basis from 0.68% in Q1 2025.

Optical Cable (OCC) FCF Margin (2010 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Optical Cable's FCF Margin history runs 17 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 6.26% for Q1 2026.

  • In Q1 2026, FCF Margin fell 1027.0% year-over-year to 6.26%; the TTM figure through Jan 2026 stood at 0.62% (down 316.0% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 1.53%, up 337.0% from the prior year.
  • FCF Margin was 6.26% for Q1 2026 at Optical Cable, up from 3.63% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 16.53% in Q1 2025 to a low of 13.42% in Q1 2022.
  • Historically, FCF Margin has averaged 0.24% across 5 years, with a median of 1.35% in 2024.
  • The sharpest annual moves came in 2022 and 2025: FCF Margin slumped 1749 bps in 2022, then jumped 1883 bps in 2025.
  • A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 1.47% in 2022, then soared by 247 bps to 5.09% in 2023, then sank by 259 bps to 8.1% in 2024, then jumped by 145 bps to 3.63% in 2025, then jumped by 73 bps to 6.26% in 2026.
  • The last three FCF Margin figures came in at 6.26% (Q1 2026), 3.63% (Q4 2025), and 11.43% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) FCF Margin (Qtr)
1 Cisco Systems 480.96 Bn 464.32 Bn 10.08 Bn 21.10%
2 Ciena 69.17 Bn 67.87 Bn 625.52 Mn 10.77%
3 Motorola Solutions 68.03 Bn 67.17 Bn 1.36 Bn 14.33%
4 Hewlett Packard Enterprise 65.63 Bn 60.79 Bn 8.25 Bn 6.55%
5 Lumentum Holdings 61.32 Bn 58.15 Bn 357.00 Mn 9.78%
6 Ubiquiti 34.34 Bn 33.97 Bn 370.71 Mn 19.71%
7 AST SpaceMobile 27.21 Bn 27.79 Bn -69.36 Mn -2,101.51%
8 Applied Optoelectronics 13.45 Bn 13.01 Bn 43.92 Mn -94.99%
9 Zebra Technologies 11.38 Bn 11.26 Bn 742.00 Mn 10.90%
10 Optical Cable 105.70 Mn 105.57 Mn 5.37 Mn 6.26%

Historic Data

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DateValue
Jan 31, 2026 6.26%
Oct 31, 2025 3.63%
Jul 31, 2025 -11.43%
Apr 30, 2025 0.42%
Jan 31, 2025 16.53%
Oct 31, 2024 -8.10%
Jul 31, 2024 2.93%
Apr 30, 2024 1.35%
Jan 31, 2024 -2.30%
Oct 31, 2023 5.09%
Jul 31, 2023 2.50%
Apr 30, 2023 -5.04%
Jan 31, 2023 -4.02%
Oct 31, 2022 1.47%
Jul 31, 2022 6.99%
Apr 30, 2022 -6.92%
Jan 31, 2022 -13.42%
Oct 31, 2021 15.25%
Jul 31, 2021 0.92%
Apr 30, 2021 -6.14%