Ranked #250 of 262 · scores higher than 5% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the valuation score
19 peers with a valuation score of 0–9, including ESQ · Click a bar to see the companies
Why valuation scores 6?
Weighted metrics compared with all Banks & Insurance companies.
Mainly because of its earnings yield and book yield, which are weaker than most Banks & Insurance peers.
▼lower earnings for the price paid: weaker than 83% of peers. Earnings yield: 3.5% vs peer median 7.9%
▼a higher price relative to book value (P/B): weaker than 76% of peers. Book yield: 20.9% vs peer median 79.5%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = ESQ, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.
Metric
ESQ
Peer median
Better than
Position among peers
Weight
Earnings yieldHigher is better · 266 reported
4.9%
8.0%
15%
60%
EBITDA yieldHigher is better · 56 reported
Not reported
10.1%
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Context only
Free cash flow yieldHigher is better · 149 reported
4.3%
7.9%
24%
Context only
Book yieldHigher is better · 263 reported
54.0%
81.4%
18%
40%
Metrics with no weight are context only: for banks, brokers and insurers, free cash flow, EBITDA, gross margin and current ratio mostly reflect trading and funding flows, not the health of the business.
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
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
