Highest retained earnings to assets stocks
3,750 companies here report retained earnings to assets; the median is 9.32%. These are the 50 highest, led by Harte Hanks, Moonpig Group and NVR.
How this measure is worked out
Retained earnings to assets
Retained earnings ÷ total assets × 100How much of the balance sheet was built out of profit the company kept rather than money it raised or borrowed. Negative is an accumulated deficit: the company has lost more over its life than it has earned. Buybacks reduce it too, so a mature company that returns everything can read low without being fragile.
higher is better; half the balance sheet from kept profit reads as self-funded, a deficit of half as a company living on outside money
More about Retained / assets, 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.