Ranked #79 of 184 · scores higher than 57% of peers · safety percentile 45
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the safety percentile (higher = safer; 67+ earns the lower-risk grade)
23 peers with a safety percentile of 40–49, including HQL · Click a bar to see the companies
Why “Moderate relative risk”?
The measures below combine into a safety percentile of 45 among Financial Services companies. It is relative: 67 or more is lower relative risk, 33–66 moderate, below 33 higher.
Its metrics sit close to the Financial Services norm.
●Current ratio is close to the peer norm. Current ratio: 1.61× vs peer median 2.02×
●Beta is close to the peer norm. Beta: 0.72 vs peer median 0.70
●Debt / equity is not reported, so it is left out of the score.
Risk is relative to the sector, not a bankruptcy probability. Banks and brokers carry high leverage by design, and share buybacks can shrink equity and current assets, which raises debt/equity on paper.
Metric by metric
Position: dot = HQL, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.
Metric
HQL
Peer median
Better than
Position among peers
Weight
Debt / equityLower is better · 160 reported
Not reported
0.69×
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—
33%
BetaLower is better · 171 reported
0.72
0.89
69%
33%
Current ratioHigher is better · 177 reported
1.61×
1.59×
51%
33%
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
