ROA

Return on assets

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Quality — How much of the revenue is really kept — and what did it take to earn it?

How it is worked out

Net income ÷ total assets × 100

Profit earned on everything the company holds, cash included. Return on capital nets that cash out; this one does not, which is why a cash-rich company scores lower here than there.

How to read it

return on everything the company holds, cash included, so a filer sitting on years of cash reads low. Return on capital nets that cash out; this one deliberately does not

Which figures it needs

Computed from 2 figures taken from the filing:

The XBRL tags behind it

These are the element names looked for in a filing, in order. The first one a company reports is the one used, and the company page names which it was — so any figure here can be checked against the filing it came from.

Whether it counts

This measure is not counted by default. It can be added to Quality on the dashboard, and it then takes its share of that dimension.