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How Capital One Financial Corporation stacks up
COF · against 15 other Financial Services companies of similar size
Profitability
58/ 100
Below the middle of the pack.
Ranked #11 of 16 · scores higher than 27% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score3 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 · 16 reported | 13.5% | 13.9% | 47% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 12 reported | Not reported | 29.5% | — | — | 33% |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 16 reported | 1.6% | 3.7% | 20% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 15 reported | 9.4% | 15.8% | 21% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 16 reported | 0.0% | 58.4% | 0% | 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 | 141.3B USD | 95 | 52 | |
| 2 | 81.4B USD | 93 | 54 | |
| 3 | 87.2B USD | 92 | 49 | |
| 4 | 67.1B USD | 82 | 51 | |
| 5 | 137.4B USD | 79 | 50 | |
| 7 | 109.3B USD | 77 | 53 | |
| 8 | 70.0B USD | 76 | 53 | |
| 9 | 97.2B USD | 72 | 44 | |
| 10 | 188.7B USD | 64 | 45 | |
| 11 | 128.0B USD | 58 | 61 | |
| 11 | 96.0B USD | 58 | 48 | |
| 13 | 6.04T INR (≈$72.4B) | 51 | 60 | |
| 14 | 70.1B USD | 41 | 45 | |
| 15 | 90.7B USD | 32 | 33 |
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