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High margin machines

Companies that keep an unusually large share of every pound they sell. That is pricing power made visible.

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Profit margin across the top 12 matches

MCD33.0%NVDA53.4%AAPL25.3%V53.0%MSFT36.1%REL.L26.0%META35.0%AVGO30.0%TXN35.0%ADBE28.0%CPI.JO35.0%QCOM26.0%Longer bar is better

Look at the spread, not the ranking. If the bars are all the same length, the screen is arbitrary: one point of profit margin 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.

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What this screen is really buying

Technology
8
Financials
6
Communications
2
Consumer
1

The matches are spread across sectors, which means the screen is selecting on the characteristic it claims to and not accidentally on an industry.

CompanyPriceRating
MCD
McDonald's Corp.
$300.0068
NVDA
NVIDIA Corp.
$124.3071
AAPL
Apple Inc.
$228.5074
V
Visa Inc.
$272.3075
MSFT
Microsoft Corp.
$441.2078
REL.L
RELX plc
£36.4070
META
Meta Platforms
$720.0077
AVGO
Broadcom Inc.
$1,700.0074
TXN
Texas Instruments
$195.0066
ADBE
Adobe Inc.
$420.0071
CPI.JO
Capitec Bank
R3,310.0070
QCOM
Qualcomm Inc.
$165.0066
GOOGL
Alphabet Inc.
$178.9076
COIN
Coinbase Global
$350.0052
JPM
JPMorgan Chase
$198.7069
FSR.JO
FirstRand
R78.4068
SBK.JO
Standard Bank Group
R236.0067

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.