Bringing the fundamentals into focus…
Back to Liquidity Services, Inc.
How Liquidity Services, Inc. stacks up
LQDT · against 490 other Consumer Cyclical companies of similar size
Profitability
93/ 100
Near the top of its peers.
Ranked #22 of 491 · scores higher than 95% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score36 peers with a profitability score of 90–100, including LQDT · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 93?
Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Cyclical companies.Mainly thanks to its return on invested capital, return on assets and operating margin, which are stronger than most Consumer Cyclical peers.
- a wider operating margin: stronger than 63% of peers. Operating margin: 9.0% vs peer median 6.4%
- a higher return on assets: stronger than 85% of peers. Return on assets: 7.9% vs peer median 3.3%
- a higher return on invested capital: stronger than 99% of peers. Return on invested capital: 216.3% vs peer median 7.3%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = LQDT, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | LQDT | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 467 reported | 216.3% | 8.3% | 100% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 490 reported | 9.0% | 7.2% | 62% | 33% | |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 468 reported | 7.9% | 3.6% | 88% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 457 reported | 15.0% | 9.0% | 77% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 493 reported | 47.6% | 31.1% | 77% | Context only |
Ranking by profitability score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around LQDT| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5.2B MYR (≈$1.1B) | 99 | 84 | |
| 1 | 2.4B USD | 99 | 65 | |
| 3 | 404.0B JPY (≈$2.7B) | 98 | 90 | |
| 3 | 11.2B SEK (≈$1.1B) | 98 | 49 | |
| 5 | 122.9B JPY (≈$836M) | 97 | 83 | |
| 17 | 3.0B AUD (≈$2.0B) | 94 | 43 | |
| 17 | 718M GBP (≈$934M) | 94 | 68 | |
| 22 | 50.3B TWD (≈$1.6B) | 93 | 66 | |
| 22 | 6.8B CNY (≈$953M) | 93 | 76 | |
| 22 | 1.4B USD | 93 | 62 | |
| 25 | 45.4B ZAR (≈$2.5B) | 92 | 71 | |
| 25 | 1.1B AUD (≈$741M) | 92 | 56 | |
| 27 | 219.4B JPY (≈$1.5B) | 91 | 70 | |
| 27 | 2.7B USD | 91 | 69 |
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