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How Capital One Financial Corporation stacks up
COF · against 354 other Financial Services companies
Profitability
58/ 100
Above the middle of the pack.
Ranked #148 of 355 · scores higher than 58% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score35 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 · 353 reported | 13.5% | 6.3% | 74% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 209 reported | Not reported | 23.5% | — | — | 33% |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 382 reported | 1.6% | 2.6% | 35% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 374 reported | 9.4% | 9.5% | 50% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 433 reported | 0.0% | 80.0% | 2% | 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 | 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 | |
| 141 | 6.5B THB (≈$182M) | 60 | 56 | |
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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