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fundamental analysis
Articles on fundamental analysis - plain-English guides from the MoatMint knowledge base.
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What Is a Growth Stock? Growth Investing ExplainedA growth stock is a company whose sales and earnings are increasing faster than the market average. These companies typically reinvest that growth instead of paying it out as dividends. A retailer opening new stores, a software company adding customers, a drugQuality & Compounders · 6 min readWhat Is Invested Capital and How Do You Calculate It?Invested capital is the total debt and equity a company actually puts to work in its operations. It is the denominator of return on invested capital (ROIC), the base a business earns its returns on.
The base deserves more care than it usually gets. ROIC divideReturns on Capital · 5 min readReturn on Capital Employed (ROCE): Formula and What It Tells YouReturn on capital employed (ROCE) measures how much pre-tax operating profit a company earns on all the long-term capital it uses - debt and equity together. The formula is EBIT divided by capital employed, where capital employed is total assets minus current Returns on Capital · 6 min readROE vs ROIC vs ROCE vs ROA: Which Return Metric Actually MattersROE, ROIC, ROCE and ROA all measure the same broad thing: how much profit a company earns on the money it needs to invest. But each uses a different pool of capital. That single difference is why the same company can look brilliant on one metric and ordinary oReturns on Capital · 8 min readWhat Is a Stock Rating?A stock rating condenses a company's fundamentals and its stock's behavior into a single score, so you can compare many companies at a glance.
Ratings come in two kinds: analyst ratings written by people, and quantitative ratings built by a model. MoatMint's iQuality & Compounders · 5 min read