Banks and financials
Almost everything you know about valuation breaks on a bank. Debt is the raw material, and the loan book is where they die.
Return on equity across the top 10 matches
Look at the spread, not the ranking. If the bars are all the same length, the screen is arbitrary: one point of return on equity separates a company that made the list from one that did not, and the cut is doing more work than the data supports. A long tail means the top few are genuinely exceptional and the rest merely qualified.
What this screen is really buying
More than half of these companies are in one sector (Financials). That is worth knowing: this screen has quietly become a sector bet, and if that sector re-rates, every name on the list moves together. Diversification comes from low correlation, not from the length of a list.
| Company | Price | P/E | Yield | Moat | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
V Visa Inc. | $272.30 | 30.1 | 0.8% | 89 | 75 |
BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway | $444.10 | 9.8 | 0 | 78 | 72 |
CPI.JO Capitec Bank | R3,310.00 | 28.0 | 1.8% | 80 | 70 |
JPM JPMorgan Chase | $198.70 | 11.6 | 2.3% | 70 | 69 |
FSR.JO FirstRand | R78.40 | 11.0 | 4.5% | 72 | 68 |
SBK.JO Standard Bank Group | R236.00 | 9.5 | 5.2% | 68 | 67 |
HSBA.L HSBC Holdings | £7.10 | 8.5 | 5.8% | 66 | 66 |
DSY.JO Discovery Ltd | R186.00 | 15.0 | 1.2% | 70 | 65 |
BAC Bank of America | $45.00 | 13.0 | 2.4% | 66 | 64 |
COIN Coinbase Global | $350.00 | 40.0 | 0 | 58 | 52 |
Educational information, not financial advice, and not a recommendation to buy anything. A screen is a place to start reading, never a place to stop.