Ranked #24 of 174 · scores higher than 86% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score
27 peers with a profitability score of 80–89, including GL · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 88?
Weighted metrics compared with all Banks & Insurance companies.
Mainly thanks to its return on equity and return on assets, which are stronger than most Banks & Insurance peers.
▲a higher return on assets: stronger than 88% of peers. Return on assets: 3.8% vs peer median 1.2%
▲a higher return on shareholders' equity: stronger than 89% of peers. Return on equity: 19.7% vs peer median 10.7%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = GL, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.
Metric
GL
Peer median
Better than
Position among peers
Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 151 reported
13.2%
10.8%
65%
Context only
Operating marginHigher is better · 22 reported
Not reported
13.6%
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Context only
Return on assetsHigher is better · 174 reported
3.8%
1.3%
86%
50%
Return on equityHigher is better · 172 reported
20.9%
12.5%
82%
50%
Gross marginHigher is better · 181 reported
33.9%
0.0%
74%
Context only
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
