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How Capital One Financial Corporation stacks up
COF · against 161 other Financial Services companies listed in US-listed
Profitability
58/ 100
Above the middle of the pack.
Ranked #70 of 162 · scores higher than 57% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score13 peers with a profitability score of 50–59, including COF · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 58?
Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.A mix: stronger return on invested capital, but weaker return on assets than most Financial Services peers.
- a lower return on assets: weaker than 65% of peers. Return on assets: 1.6% vs peer median 2.6%
- Operating margin is not reported, so it is left out of the score.
- a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 74% of peers. Return on invested capital: 13.5% vs peer median 6.3%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = COF, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | COF | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 157 reported | 13.5% | 7.1% | 72% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 84 reported | Not reported | 23.1% | — | — | 33% |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 183 reported | 1.6% | 2.6% | 32% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 176 reported | 9.4% | 10.4% | 46% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 200 reported | 0.0% | 83.0% | 1% | 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 COF| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 566.9B USD | 99 | 48 | |
| 2 | 2.7B USD | 98 | 63 | |
| 2 | 31.1B USD | 98 | 65 | |
| 4 | 4.2B USD | 97 | 55 | |
| 4 | 2.7B USD | 97 | 58 | |
| 66 | 190M USD | 60 | 67 | |
| 66 | 23.7B USD | 60 | 59 | |
| 68 | 773M USD | 59 | 54 | |
| 68 | 433M USD | 59 | 46 | |
| 70 | 128.0B USD | 58 | 61 | |
| 70 | 96.0B USD | 58 | 48 | |
| 72 | 15.1B USD | 57 | 49 | |
| 73 | 3.0B USD | 55 | 56 | |
| 73 | 24.1B USD | 55 | 54 |
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