How Danaos Corporation stacks up

DAC · against 468 other Industrials companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

92/ 100

Near the top of its peers.

Ranked #69 of 469 · scores higher than 84% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

91 peers with a profitability score of 90–100, including DAC · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 92?

Weighted metrics compared with all Industrials companies.

Mainly thanks to its operating margin, return on assets and return on invested capital, which are stronger than most Industrials peers.

a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 63% of peers. Return on invested capital: 10.1% vs peer median 7.1%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 92% of peers. Return on assets: 9.7% vs peer median 3.1%
a wider operating margin: stronger than 99% of peers. Operating margin: 47.8% vs peer median 7.7%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = DAC, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	DAC	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 456 reported	10.1%	8.2%	58%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 465 reported	47.8%	8.5%	98%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 462 reported	9.7%	4.4%	80%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 438 reported	14.1%	11.5%	59%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 475 reported	70.8%	30.1%	96%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around DAC

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	SBC Medical Group Holdings IncorporatedSBC · US-listed	536M USD	100	80
1	Verisk Analytics, Inc.VRSK · US-listed	25.6B USD	100	50
3	Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S. A. B. de C. V.ASR · US-listed	7.8B USD	99	82
3	Exponent, Inc.EXPO · US-listed	4.1B USD	99	59
3	Fastenal CompanyFAST · US-listed	60.0B USD	99	71
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61	Lockheed Martin CorporationLMT · US-listed	147.5B USD	93	54
69	AMETEK, Inc.AME · US-listed	57.0B USD	92	58
69	Blue Bird CorporationBLBD · US-listed	1.8B USD	92	77
69	Copa Holdings, S.A.CPA · US-listed	5.6B USD	92	66
69	Danaos CorporationDAC · US-listed	2.8B USD	92	81
69	Honeywell International Inc.HON · US-listed	71.0B USD	92	68
69	Honeywell Aerospace Inc.HONA · US-listed	49.9B USD	92	42
69	Nordson CorporationNDSN · US-listed	18.4B USD	92	57
69	Ryanair Holdings plcRYAAY · US-listed	28.3B USD	92	64

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

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