Bringing the fundamentals into focus…
Back to Green Dot Corporation
How Green Dot Corporation stacks up
GDOT · against 354 other Financial Services companies
Profitability
13/ 100
Near the bottom of its peers.
Ranked #308 of 355 · scores higher than 13% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score36 peers with a profitability score of 10–19, including GDOT · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 13?
Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.Mainly because of its return on assets and operating margin, which are weaker than most Financial Services peers.
- a lower return on assets: weaker than 89% of peers. Return on assets: -0.4% vs peer median 2.6%
- a thinner operating margin: weaker than 82% of peers. Operating margin: 0.3% vs peer median 23.5%
- Return on invested capital is not reported, so it is left out of the score.
Metric by metric
Position: dot = GDOT, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | GDOT | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 353 reported | Not reported | 6.3% | — | — | 33% |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 209 reported | 0.3% | 23.5% | 18% | 33% | |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 382 reported | -0.4% | 2.6% | 11% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 374 reported | -2.8% | 9.5% | 13% | 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 GDOT| 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 | |
| 304 | 55.6B JPY (≈$378M) | 14 | 25 | |
| 304 |
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