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How Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. stacks up
CGBD · against 354 other Financial Services companies
Profitability
42/ 100
Below the middle of the pack.
Ranked #205 of 355 · scores higher than 42% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score36 peers with a profitability score of 40–49, including CGBD · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 42?
Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.Its metrics sit close to the Financial Services norm.
- a lower return on assets: weaker than 66% of peers. Return on assets: 1.5% vs peer median 2.6%
- Operating margin is not reported, so it is left out of the score.
- Return on invested capital is close to the peer norm. Return on invested capital: 6.5% vs peer median 6.3%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = CGBD, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | CGBD | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 353 reported | 6.5% | 6.3% | 51% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 209 reported | Not reported | 23.5% | — | — | 33% |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 382 reported | 1.5% | 2.6% | 34% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 374 reported | 3.3% | 9.5% | 26% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 433 reported | 100.0% | 80.0% | 66% | 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 CGBD| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 342M EUR (≈$376M) | 100 | 77 | |
| 1 | 1.05T INR (≈$12.6B) | 100 | 65 | |
| 3 | 1.49T INR (≈$17.9B) | 99 | 71 | |
| 3 | 566M AUD (≈$374M) | 99 | 84 | |
| 3 | 566.9B USD | 99 | 48 | |
| 202 | 240M AUD (≈$158M) | 43 | 21 | |
| 202 | 275M USD | 43 | ||
| 205 | 484.1B JPY (≈$3.3B) | 42 | 35 | |
| 205 | 1.4B USD | 42 | 58 | |
| 205 | 742M USD | 42 | 39 | |
| 205 | 1.1B USD | 42 | 37 | |
| 209 | 9.2B HKD (≈$1.2B) | 41 | 39 | |
| 209 | 34.4B CNY (≈$4.8B) | 41 | 40 | |
| 209 | 70.1B USD | 41 | 45 |
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