The highest return on equity

Return on equity

Ranked from the filings of the companies this site has read, under . 50 of them report a figure for this; the rest are absent rather than ranked last, because a filing that does not carry a number is not a company that scores badly on it.

#CompanyROE
1 COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY CL 863.14%
2 LAS VEGAS SANDS CORP. LVS 297.25%
3 Mastercard Incorporated MA 289.73%
4 ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC RR.L 214.09%
5 RH RH 181.02%
6 Gubra A/S GUBRA.CO 147.53%
7 AppLovin Corporation APP 139.42%
8 FORTINET, INC. FTNT 136.72%
9 Pandora A/S PNDORA.CO 130.37%
10 Apple Inc. AAPL 119.91%
11 ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC ITW 110.33%
12 3M COMPANY MMM 101.52%
13 HOME DEPOT, INC. HD 100.99%
14 Lyft, Inc. LYFT 94.78%
15 RELX PLC REL.L 87.83%
16 RELX PLC RELX 87.83%
17 PAGERDUTY, INC. PD 85.82%
18 AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION AMT 85.40%
19 Zoetis Inc. ZTS 83.10%
20 INTERACTIVE BROKERS GROUP, INC. IBKR 82.93%
21 NVIDIA CORP NVDA 81.65%
22 ELI LILLY AND COMPANY LLY 78.84%
23 KLA CORP KLAC 76.08%
24 ALEXANDERS INC ALX 75.94%
25 Amgen Inc. AMGN 74.80%
26 GreenMobility A/S GREENM.CO 74.30%
27 AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING, INC. ADP 73.18%
28 CMB.TECH CMBT.BR 73.04%
29 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION LMT 71.70%
30 THE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS COMPANY SHW 69.74%
31 LANDS' END, INC. LE 68.74%
32 UBIQUITI INC. UI 66.68%
33 Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation BAH 64.73%
34 UNILEVER PLC UL 64.46%
35 UNILEVER PLC ULVR.L 64.46%
36 ADOBE INC. ADBE 62.76%
37 VISA INC. V 62.35%
38 AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL, INC. AMP 62.02%
39 CHEWY, INC. CHWY 60.16%
40 BRINK’S CO BCO 58.26%
41 LAM RESEARCH CORPORATION LRCX 58.26%
42 Puuilo Oyj PUUILO.HE 56.62%
43 CATERPILLAR INC CAT 55.90%
44 THE TJX COMPANIES, INC. TJX 55.66%
45 LOTTOMATICA GROUP S.P.A. LTMC.MI 55.32%
46 DELEK US HOLDINGS, INC. DK 53.11%
47 NOVO NORDISK A/S NVO 52.79%
48 GENERAL ELECTRIC CO GE 50.86%
49 Moelis & Co MC 50.71%
50 NOVO NORDISK A/S NOVO-B.CO 50.44%

How this measure is worked out

Net income ÷ shareholders' equity × 100

Shareholders' equity is assets minus liabilities: the book value the owners have in the business. Borrowing money or buying back shares shrinks it and lifts this ratio without the business having improved.

flattered by leverage and by buybacks, both of which shrink the denominator without improving the business. Read next to return on capital, which cannot be moved that way

More about ROE, and the XBRL tags behind it

What this ranking is not

It is not advice, and a high place is not a recommendation. A company can lead on one measure and fail on every other; that is the reason this site scores five dimensions rather than one and lets you weigh them yourself.

It also ranks only what has been read. A company whose filings are not in this database cannot appear here however well it would have done, and a company whose filing does not tag this figure is absent rather than last.

Worked out on 2026-08-24.

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