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LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA)

Name: LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) filed financial figures
Creator: ValueScreener

NASDAQ / Financial Services / Financial - Capital Markets

Share price

323.46 USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026

Market capitalisation

25.87B USD Market dataClose of Oct 14, 2026

Market data: Oct 14, 2026
Filed accounts: FY2025, filed Feb 23, 2026
Ratios computed: Oct 14, 2026
Filed years: 16, FY2009 to FY2025

Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means

SEC filingFiled with the SEC: Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement: What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data: Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener: Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.

Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Quality

Return on equity

16.1% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Financial strength

Debt to equity

n/a Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Why n/a

The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.

Read financial strength

Valuation

Price to earnings

29.49x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Dividend yield

0.4% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.

Named tests met: 0 of 30 Which tests

The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 29.49x at the close of 2026-10-14 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Financial - Capital Markets industry (35 companies), 29.49x sits at the 85th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 13.61x to 23.00x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 16.1% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Strong" (15.0% to 25.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting high returns on shareholders' money, which leverage can also produce.

Today, against the Financial - Capital Markets industry (63 companies), 16.1% sits at the 74th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -23.6% to 16.6%.

Year by year against peers: Whether LPL Financial Holdings Inc.'s return on equity stayed above the median of the Financial - Capital Markets industry, year by year. (FY2017 to FY2025, 9 fiscal years of LPL Financial Holdings Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction: Which way LPL Financial Holdings Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)
What could explain it: What in LPL Financial Holdings Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (3 readings drawn from the statement lines LPL Financial Holdings Inc. filed)
What to check next: What to check next on LPL Financial Holdings Inc., and where in its filings. (2 questions for LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)
In one paragraph: One paragraph on LPL Financial Holdings Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (4 of sixteen figures read for LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)

These are LPLA’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-010705.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

LPL Financial Holdings Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax Why n/m Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Return on equity	16.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Return on capital employed, pre-tax Why n/m Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Return on assets	4.7% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Gross margin Why n/a Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Operating margin Why n/a No operating income line is filed for this year.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Net margin	5.1% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705

LPLA 5.1%

-99.4%39.6%

Net margin: LPLA against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

LPL Financial Holdings Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Debt to equity Why n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Current ratio Why n/a Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Quick ratio Why n/a Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Interest coverage Why n/a No operating income line is filed for this year.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Altman Z-score Why n/m Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.	n/m ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Net debt Why n/a The FY2025 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.	n/a ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705

Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity

The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What LPL Financial Holdings Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from the balance sheet it filed (10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705).

LPL Financial Holdings Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets	18.49B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026
Total liabilities	13.15B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026
Shareholders' equity	5.34B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026
Cash	1.13B FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026
Total debt	n/a FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026
Net debt	n/a
Current ratio	n/a
Debt to equity	n/a

Debt to equity: FY2025: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Current ratio: FY2025: Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.
Interest cover: FY2025: No operating income line is filed for this year.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

LPL Financial Holdings Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Price to earnings	29.49x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
P/E on trailing twelve months	26.52x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book	4.78x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Price to sales	1.51x ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Enterprise value to EBIT Why n/m Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.	n/m ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Enterprise value to EBITDA Why n/m Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.	n/m ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Price to earnings over growth	2.27 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Diluted earnings per share	10.92 USD FiledFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Graham number	129.17 USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value LPLA on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for LPL Financial Holdings Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc: valuation
Share price	323.46 USD
Market capitalisation	25.87B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA	n/m
Graham number	129.17 USD
Diluted earnings per share, FY2025	10.92 USD

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months, a different basis from the fiscal-year P/E above, since Oct 3, 2016: low 5.89x, median 20.95x, high 42.03x, latest 26.52x. 2,520 trading days with a meaningful ratio. Each close over the trailing twelve months of earnings as known that day: a quarter counts from the day it was filed.

Companies like LPL Financial Holdings Inc

Same industry (Financial - Capital Markets) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value and net margin. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

LPL Financial Holdings Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Free cash flow yield Why n/m For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.	n/m ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Free cash flow	-981.8M USD ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Free cash flow margin Why n/m For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Dividend yield	0.4% ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026 · FY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Payout ratio	10.9% ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705

Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
Figure	Value	Year	As of
	29.49x	FY2025	Oct 14, 2026
FormulaShare price / earnings per share. Where the filing states no earnings per share this listing can be priced on, which is every 20-F and 40-F filer because theirs is stated per ordinary share, it is market capitalisation / net income: the same multiple, undiluted. As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	4.78x	FY2025	Oct 14, 2026
FormulaMarket capitalisation / shareholders equity As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Oct 14, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
Formula(Market capitalisation + total debt - cash) / operating income, or over the filing's own EBIT (income before tax + interest expense) where the filer tags no operating line, as Johnson & Johnson does not in any of its ten filed years. As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Oct 14, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaFree cash flow per share / share price x 100 As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Feb 23, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaVendor trailing-twelve-month return on invested capital where one is published, which uses after-tax operating profit over total assets less current liabilities. Otherwise our own recompute: NOPAT / (shareholders equity + total debt - cash) x 100, where NOPAT is the filed operating profit after tax, or the filing's own EBIT after tax where the filer tags no operating line. As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	0.4%	FY2025	Oct 14, 2026
FormulaCommon dividends paid in the latest filed year / market capitalisation x 100. n/a where the filing cannot support it: a special or first-year payment, a total that mixes preferred dividends, or a cash-flow statement over 15 months old. As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/a	FY2025	Feb 23, 2026
n/a The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
FormulaTotal debt / shareholders equity As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/a	FY2025	Feb 23, 2026
n/a Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.
FormulaCurrent assets / current liabilities As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	1.51x	FY2025	Oct 14, 2026
FormulaMarket capitalisation / revenue As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	2.27	FY2025	Oct 14, 2026
FormulaPrice to earnings / the annual earnings growth rate, in percentage points As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Oct 14, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
Formula1.2 x working capital/assets + 1.4 x retained earnings/assets + 3.3 x EBIT/assets + 0.6 x market value of equity/total liabilities + 1.0 x revenue/assets As ofThe close on Oct 14, 2026, over the filed figures of FY2025: a price is in this figure, and it moved after the filing. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Feb 23, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaAn eight-variable index of year-on-year changes in receivables, gross margin, asset quality, revenue, depreciation, overheads, leverage and accruals As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab
	n/m	FY2025	Feb 23, 2026
n/m Not meaningful for this company, such as a P/E on negative earnings or a bank's EV/EBIT.
FormulaOne point each for: positive return on assets, positive operating cash flow, rising return on assets, operating cash flow above net income, falling leverage, rising current ratio, no new shares issued, rising gross margin, rising asset turnover. As ofThe filing date of the statements below, for FY2025. Form10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itIncome statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itBalance sheetFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tabForm10-KFiledFeb 23, 2026PeriodFY2025Accession0001628280-26-010705What we read from itCash flow statementFY2025Open on SEC.gov, accession 0001628280-26-010705, leaves this page and opens in a new tab

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 16 filed fiscal years on record, FY2009 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 14, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 14, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports LPL Financial Holdings Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in USD, as filed.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
Year	Revenue	Operating income	Net income	EPS, diluted	Free cash flow	Operating margin	Return on equity	Filing
FY2025	16.99B	1.55B	863.0M	10.92	-981.8M	n/a	16.1%	10-K, Feb 23, 20260001628280-26-010705
FY2024	12.39B	1.67B	1.06B	14.03	-284.9M	n/a	36.1%	10-K, Feb 20, 20250001397911-25-000018
FY2023	10.05B	1.63B	1.07B	13.69	109.3M	n/a	51.3%	10-K, Feb 21, 20240001397911-24-000011
FY2022	8.60B	1.24B	845.7M	10.40	1.64B	n/a	39.0%	10-K, Feb 23, 20230001397911-23-000024
FY2021	7.72B	705.7M	459.9M	5.63	237.1M	n/a	27.5%	10-K, Feb 22, 20220001397911-22-000014
FY2020	5.87B	731.8M	472.6M	5.86	634.4M	n/a	36.0%	10-K, Feb 23, 20210001397911-21-000029
FY2019	5.62B	871.8M	559.9M	6.62	467.5M	n/a	54.7%	10-K, Feb 21, 20200001397911-20-000023
FY2018	5.19B	n/a	439.5M	4.85	448.9M	n/a	45.1%	10-K, Feb 26, 20190001397911-19-000018
FY2017	4.28B	n/a	238.9M	2.59	341.4M	n/a	24.8%	10-K, Feb 21, 20180001397911-18-000011
FY2016	4.05B	n/a	191.9M	2.13	261.3M	n/a	23.4%	10-K, Feb 24, 20170001397911-17-000025

Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 17.3%
Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 18.2%
Earnings per share, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 19.9%
Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

LPL Financial Holdings Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
Figure	Value, source and document
Beneish M-score Why n/m The Beneish M-Score is built on gross margin, receivables and asset quality indices estimated on non-financial firms. Those inputs are not defined here.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Piotroski F-score Why n/m 2 of the nine Piotroski signals are undefined for a capital markets firm: signal 6 (rising current ratio), signal 8 (rising gross margin). We do not publish a partial score under the full score's name.	n/m ComputedFY2025 10-K, filed Feb 23, 2026, 0001628280-26-010705
Named tests met	0 of 30 Computed
Beta	1.12 ComputedClose of Oct 14, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 17 not met, 13 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)

Meets: None of the named tests.
Does not: Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured: Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.

Figures we could not read(17)

Current Ratio: Our archived statements for this filer carry no current assets line, so we cannot compute this from source and show you where it came from.
Debt to Equity: The debt total on file was summed from short-term debt, long-term debt and lease obligations, and at least one of those was never captured. An absent term is spent as a zero inside that sum, and this balance sheet does not show the term is empty, so we will not build a leverage ratio, an enterprise value or a return on capital on it, or rank the company on one.
Piotroski F-Score: 2 of the nine Piotroski signals are undefined for a capital markets firm: signal 6 (rising current ratio), signal 8 (rising gross margin). We do not publish a partial score under the full score's name.
EV/EBIT: Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.
Return on Invested Capital: Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.
Altman Z-Score: Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.
Beneish M-Score: The Beneish M-Score is built on gross margin, receivables and asset quality indices estimated on non-financial firms. Those inputs are not defined here.
Gross Margin: Our archived statements for this filer carry no gross profit line, so there is nothing to compute a gross margin from and trace back to source. That may be because the filer presents no cost of revenue, or because we have not captured the concept. We do not guess which.
EV/EBITDA: Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.
Interest Coverage: No operating income line is filed for this year.
Free Cash Flow Yield: For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.
ROIC-WACC Spread: Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.
Price To Ncav: Net current asset value needs current assets, which an unclassified balance sheet does not report.
Owner Earnings Yield: For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.
Capex To Ocf: For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.
Dividend Coverage Ratio: For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.
Price Tangible Book: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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What this cannot tell you

17 figures could not be read on this company, among them Current Ratio, Debt to Equity, Piotroski F-Score. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 13 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

Running this once is arithmetic on public documents and you are welcome to it. Writing down why you own each company, in your own words and with the numbers that have to stay true for it to hold, and then having those numbers re-checked every night against the newest filed accounts, and against the latest close where a rule watches a price, is Professional, the plan a new account starts on for 30 days, one trial per person. It writes to you the day one breaks, and stays quiet when nothing does. The check runs every night at 23:30 UTC. A filing is picked up the night after it is published.

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ValueScreener · valuescreener.ai · Computed from accounts filed with the SEC by this company, read from EDGAR, and from dated closing prices. On this page a filed figure opens into its formula, its inputs and the statement, fiscal year and filing date it was read from, and a price into the day of its close. A figure that cannot show that trail says so.

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