Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score
14 peers with a profitability score of 80–89, including AFL · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 87?
Weighted metrics compared with all Banks & Insurance companies.
Mainly thanks to its return on assets and return on equity, which are stronger than most Banks & Insurance peers.
▲a higher return on shareholders' equity: stronger than 81% of peers. Return on equity: 16.0% vs peer median 10.7%
▲a higher return on assets: stronger than 89% of peers. Return on assets: 4.2% vs peer median 1.2%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = AFL, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.
Metric
AFL
Peer median
Better than
Position among peers
Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 67 reported
9.8%
12.4%
42%
Context only
Operating marginHigher is better · 5 reported
Not reported
28.8%
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Context only
Return on assetsHigher is better · 83 reported
4.2%
1.0%
95%
50%
Return on equityHigher is better · 83 reported
16.9%
13.9%
76%
50%
Gross marginHigher is better · 87 reported
50.9%
0.0%
94%
Context only
Metrics with no weight are context only: for banks, brokers and insurers, free cash flow, EBITDA, gross margin and current ratio mostly reflect trading and funding flows, not the health of the business.
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score
