Bringing the fundamentals into focus…
Bringing the fundamentals into focus…
PM · against 7 other Consumer Defensive companies of similar size
Ranked #8 of 8 · scores higher than 0% of peers · safety percentile 8
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the safety percentile (higher = safer; 67+ earns the lower-risk grade)3 peers with a safety percentile of 0–9, including PM · Click a bar to see the companies
Mainly because of its debt / equity and current ratio, which are weaker than most Consumer Defensive peers.
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 | PM | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debt / equityLower is better · 7 reported | Not reported | 0.64× | — | — | 33% |
| BetaLower is better · 8 reported | 0.40 | 0.39 | 43% | 33% | |
| Current ratioHigher is better · 8 reported | 0.98× | 0.97× | 57% | 33% |
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
| Rank | Company | Market cap | Safety | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.85T CNY (≈$259.0B) | 96 | 71 | |
| 2 | 376.4B USD | 34 | 51 | |
| 3 | 407.9B USD | 32 | 53 | |
| 4 | 451.8B USD | 26 | 52 | |
| 5 | 230.5B EUR (≈$253.5B) | 19 | 43 | |
| 6 | 187.1B USD | 9 | 54 | |
| 7 | 217.1B CHF (≈$249.7B) | 8 | 35 | |
| 8 | 324.2B USD | 8 | 54 |
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