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Compare two stocks

Two US companies, the same figures for each, from the last annual report against a stored price. Every blank says why it is blank, and nothing here picks a side.

Two US tickers. The address this makes is the whole comparison, so it can be sent to somebody else as it is.

Name two companies above. Until then, here is what the whole measured market reads on the same figures.

What the US market reads on these figures
FigureMedianCompaniesBuilt
P/E19.84x2,6252026-10-21
Price to book1.81x4,4432026-10-21
ROIC after tax7.11%1,5302026-10-21
Debt to equity0.572,3202026-10-21
F-score4.004,2282026-10-21

How it works

each figure = the company's own annual line, filed or market data, under the same gate

  • Both columns come from one published catalogue, so the two companies are measured by the same rules and the same fiscal-year basis.
  • A figure that fails the applicability gate is held back rather than printed: a price ratio whose share count has changed since the annual report is one, a return on capital on a capital base near zero is another.
  • The US market column is the median of the cohort published for that figure, which is one number and belongs to neither company.

Reading the result

Read down a row, not across a column. A price to earnings of 17 beside one of 44 is two facts about two businesses, and the market median in the third cell is what both are measured against.

Nothing is added, averaged or scored. Where a figure is absent the cell carries a footnote number and the sentence under the table says why, in the words of the service that declined to compute it.

Questions

Which company wins?

Neither, and the page will not say. It prints the same figures for both, computed the same way, and nothing here adds them up, grades them or puts one above the other. That reading is the reader's work.

Why is a cell n/a or n/m?

Because we do not hold the figure, or because it means nothing for that filer. A bank has no EV/EBIT, negative earnings leave no price to earnings. Every blank carries the reason under the table, and none of them is a zero.

What is the US market column?

The median of the cohort published for that figure, the same number in both columns. It reads n/a where no cross-market cohort is published, which today is market capitalisation, EV/EBIT, free cash flow yield and dividend yield.

How current are the figures?

Ratios come from each company's last annual report divided by a stored price, and both dates are printed under the table. A stored price is not a live quote and this page never implies it is.

What this leaves out

  • Two companies in different industries are rarely comparable on a multiple, and this page cannot tell you when they are.
  • A price ratio is the last annual accounts divided by a stored price, so neither half of it is today's.
  • Eight ratios are not a business. What a company sells, who to, and for how long are not on this page.

Next step

See what would be watched on a company

Three numbers drafted from that company’s own filed figures, with the year each last broke. No account, and nothing is saved until you say so.

This one is answered on this site rather than in your browser: the symbol you type is read here to look the company up in the published catalogue, and goes nowhere else.

The figures are read from filed accounts when this page is built. Disclaimer.

Once a week, what changed in the filings of US-listed companies, why it can matter to a thesis, and what deserves a closer review. Grounded in filings, not market noise.