The highest scoring companies on each measure

Which companies come out highest on each measure, from their own filings.

Ranked across the companies this site has read. Each list ranks only those whose filings carry that figure.

Quality

How much of the revenue is really kept — and what did it take to earn it?

• The highest GAAP operating margin — 50 companies
• The highest return on invested capital — 50 companies
• The lowest stock compensation over revenue, inverted — 50 companies
• The highest (Free cash flow − stock comp) over revenue — 50 companies
• The highest cash operating margin, before stock compensation — 50 companies
• The highest cash conversion — 50 companies
• The lowest accruals — 50 companies
• The highest net margin — 50 companies
• The lowest capital intensity — 50 companies
• The highest gross margin — 50 companies
• The highest asset turnover — 50 companies
• The highest free cash flow margin — 50 companies
• The highest return on assets — 50 companies
• The highest return on equity — 50 companies
• The highest operating cash flow margin — 50 companies
• The highest return on capital employed — 50 companies
• The highest EBITDA margin — 50 companies
• The lowest days sales outstanding — 50 companies
• The lowest SG&A ratio — 50 companies

Valuation

What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

• The lowest EV / GAAP operating income — 50 companies
• The lowest EV / revenue — 50 companies
• The lowest EV / (free cash flow − stock comp) — 50 companies
• The highest shareholder yield — 50 companies
• The lowest price / net earnings — 50 companies
• The lowest forward price / earnings — 50 companies
• The lowest PEG — 50 companies
• The highest free cash flow yield on market cap — 50 companies
• The lowest EV / gross profit — 50 companies
• The lowest price / book value — 50 companies
• The lowest price / cash — 50 companies
• The highest dividend yield — 50 companies

Durability

How predictable is the revenue, and how much of it is already committed?

• The highest revenue growth in the worst year on record — 50 companies
• The highest contracted revenue — 50 companies
• The lowest gross margin stability across years, in percentage points — 50 companies
• The lowest cash-flow margin stability, operating cash flow over revenue — 50 companies
• The lowest segment spread — 50 companies
• The highest contracted revenue growth — 50 companies
• The highest prepaid revenue growth — 50 companies

Resilience

Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

• The highest net cash, or net debt over EBITDA — 50 companies
• The highest interest cover, EBIT over interest — 50 companies
• The highest cash runway — 50 companies
• The highest current ratio, excluding deferred revenue from the liabilities — 50 companies
• The highest piotroski F-score — 50 companies
• The lowest debt payback — 50 companies
• The lowest net debt over equity — 50 companies
• The lowest debt / equity, gross — 50 companies
• The highest quick ratio — 50 companies
• The lowest dividend payout ratio — 50 companies
• The highest equity to assets — 50 companies
• The highest cash to debt — 50 companies
• The highest retained earnings to assets — 50 companies

Growth

Is the business getting bigger, and is it getting more profitable?

• The highest revenue growth per diluted share, trailing twelve months against the prior twelve — 50 companies
• The highest the same growth compounded over four fiscal years — 50 companies
• The highest operating margin trend, in percentage points per year — 50 companies
• The highest most recent margin move, in percentage points — 50 companies
• The highest operating profit growth, trailing twelve months against the prior twelve — 50 companies
• The highest the same operating profit growth compounded over the years on file — 50 companies
• The highest gross profit growth, latest fiscal year against the prior one — 50 companies
• The lowest change in diluted share count — 50 companies
• The highest earnings per share growth, trailing twelve months — 50 companies
• The highest earnings per share, compound annual rate over the last five fiscal years — 50 companies
• The highest revenue growth, latest quarter against the year-ago quarter — 50 companies
• The highest dividend growth — 50 companies

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