How Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. stacks up

AJG · against 22 other Financial Services companies of similar size

Profitability

41/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #19 of 23 · scores higher than 18% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

2 peers with a profitability score of 40–49, including AJG · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 41?

Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.

Its metrics sit close to the Financial Services norm.

a lower return on assets: weaker than 61% of peers. Return on assets: 1.9% vs peer median 2.6%
Operating margin is close to the peer norm. Operating margin: 18.3% vs peer median 23.5%
Return on invested capital is close to the peer norm. Return on invested capital: 6.3% vs peer median 6.3%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = AJG, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	AJG	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 22 reported	6.3%	13.6%	19%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 21 reported	18.3%	29.6%	15%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 25 reported	1.9%	2.3%	38%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 24 reported	6.7%	15.4%	9%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 25 reported	43.2%	70.9%	21%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around AJG

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	MSCI Inc.MSCI · US-listed	46.5B USD	95	44
2	Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.BAM · US-listed	81.4B USD	93	54
3	Moody's CorporationMCO · US-listed	87.2B USD	92	49
4	EQT AB (publ)EQT.ST · Europe	391.0B SEK (≈$39.1B)	84	57
5	Apollo Global Management, Inc.APO · US-listed	67.1B USD	82	51
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15	Deutsche Börse AGDB1.DE · Europe	56.1B EUR (≈$61.7B)	60	53
16	Capital One Financial CorporationCOF · US-listed	128.0B USD	58	61
16	Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.ICE · US-listed	96.0B USD	58	48
18	Bajaj Finance LimitedBAJFINANCE.NS · India	6.04T INR (≈$72.4B)	51	60
19	Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.AJG · US-listed	70.1B USD	41	45
20	London Stock Exchange Group plcLSEG.L · United Kingdom	43.6B GBP (≈$56.7B)	40	48
21	Brookfield CorporationBN · US-listed	90.7B USD	32	33
22	KKR & Co. Inc.KKR · US-listed	88.7B USD	31	39
23	Coinbase Global, Inc.COIN · US-listed	38.4B USD	14	22

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

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