Stock Scorer

Retained / assets

Retained earnings to assets

One of the 64 measures in Stock Scorer, under Resilience — Can the balance sheet absorb a bad year?

How it is worked out

Retained earnings ÷ total assets × 100

How 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.

How to read it

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

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 Resilience on the dashboard, and it then takes its share of that dimension.