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How Avis Budget Group, Inc. stacks up
CAR · against 2,439 other Industrials companies
Profitability
18/ 100
Near the bottom of its peers.
Ranked #1,989 of 2,440 · scores higher than 18% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score244 peers with a profitability score of 10–19, including CAR · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 18?
Weighted metrics compared with all Industrials companies.Mainly because of its return on assets and operating margin, which are weaker than most Industrials peers.
- a lower return on assets: weaker than 90% of peers. Return on assets: -2.0% vs peer median 3.1%
- a thinner operating margin: weaker than 82% of peers. Operating margin: 1.6% vs peer median 7.7%
- Return on invested capital is close to the peer norm. Return on invested capital: 5.5% vs peer median 7.1%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = CAR, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | CAR | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 2,323 reported | 5.5% | 7.1% | 41% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 2,434 reported | 1.6% | 7.7% | 18% | 33% | |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 2,336 reported | -2.0% | 3.1% | 10% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 2,300 reported | Not reported | 8.0% | — | — | Context only |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 2,460 reported | 27.4% | 25.8% | 54% | Context only |
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Ranking by profitability score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around CARScores 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