How Gladstone Capital Corporation stacks up

GLAD · against 161 other Financial Services companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

59/ 100

Above the middle of the pack.

Ranked #68 of 162 · scores higher than 58% of peers

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

13 peers with a profitability score of 50–59, including GLAD · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 59?

Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.

Its metrics sit close to the Financial Services norm.

Operating margin is not reported, so it is left out of the score.
Return on invested capital is close to the peer norm. Return on invested capital: 6.4% vs peer median 6.3%
a higher return on assets: stronger than 72% of peers. Return on assets: 5.2% vs peer median 2.6%

Metric by metric

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

Metric	GLAD	Peer median	Better than	Position among peers	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 157 reported	6.4%	7.1%	41%		33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 84 reported	Not reported	23.1%	—	—	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 183 reported	5.2%	2.6%	71%		33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 176 reported	9.4%	10.4%	46%		Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 200 reported	100.0%	83.0%	57%		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 GLAD

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Mastercard IncorporatedMA · US-listed	566.9B USD	99	48
2	Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc.APAM · US-listed	2.7B USD	98	63
2	Raymond James Financial, Inc.RJF · US-listed	31.1B USD	98	65
4	CorVel CorporationCRVL · US-listed	4.2B USD	97	55
4	Sprott Inc.SII · US-listed	2.7B USD	97	58
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65	Enova International, Inc.ENVA · US-listed	4.3B USD	61	70
66	ArrowMark Financial Corp.BANX · US-listed	190M USD	60	67
66	Brown & Brown, Inc.BRO · US-listed	23.7B USD	60	59
68	Fidus Investment CorporationFDUS · US-listed	773M USD	59	54
68	Gladstone Capital CorporationGLAD · US-listed	433M USD	59	46
70	Capital One Financial CorporationCOF · US-listed	128.0B USD	58	61
70	Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.ICE · US-listed	96.0B USD	58	48
72	TransUnionTRU · US-listed	15.1B USD	57	49
73	DigitalBridge Group, Inc.DBRG · US-listed	3.0B USD	55	56

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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