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How Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. stacks up
GSBD · against 110 other Financial Services companies of similar size
Profitability
47/ 100
Below the middle of the pack.
Ranked #56 of 111 · scores higher than 49% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score17 peers with a profitability score of 40–49, including GSBD · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 47?
Weighted metrics compared with all Financial Services companies.Its metrics sit close to the Financial Services norm.
- a lower return on assets: weaker than 64% of peers. Return on assets: 1.8% vs peer median 2.6%
- 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: 7.3% vs peer median 6.3%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = GSBD, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | GSBD | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 110 reported | 7.3% | 5.9% | 66% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 59 reported | Not reported | 23.3% | — | — | 33% |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 121 reported | 1.8% | 2.5% | 35% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 117 reported | 4.1% | 9.9% | 26% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 140 reported | 100.0% | 91.9% | 55% | 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 GSBDScores 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