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Type the tickers into the box above — up to five at once. Every row is read from the companies' own annual filings, so a comparison shows the same measure computed the same way for each of them rather than whatever each company chose to highlight.

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Latest annual figures from each company's filings

MetricGEGENERAL ELECTRIC CORTXRTX CorpLMT.TOLMT.TOBABOEING COMedian of the restexcluding GE
TypeCompanyCompanyCompanyCompany
Price
$293.54▼ 2.34 (0.79%)
$194.71▲ 3.11 (1.62%)
C$33.27▲ 3.12 (10.35%)
$187.55▼ 4.73 (2.46%)
Health scoreComposite of profitability, growth, debt and accounting quality.10.0/107.3/107.3/107.0/107.3/10
Market value$307.85B$261.36B$7.62B$189.85B
Revenue$45.85B$88.60B$105.32B$89.46B
Profit$8.70B$6.73B$7.04B$2.23B
Revenue growthChange in sales versus the prior year.18.5%9.7%5.6%34.5%9.7%
Gross marginShare of sales left after the direct cost of producing them.——10.2%4.8%7.5%
Operating marginShare of sales left after running the business, before interest and tax.—10.5%10.3%4.8%10.3%
Profit marginProfit kept from each dollar of sales.19.0%7.6%6.7%2.5%6.7%
Free cash flow marginCash left after capital spending, as a share of sales.15.8%9.0%9.2%-2.1%9.0%
Return on equityProfit against the owners' stake in the company.46.6%10.3%74.6%41.0%41.0%
Return on invested capital (approx.)Operating profit after tax against equity plus debt, less cash. Cash here excludes short-term investments, so this runs low for cash-rich companies.—7.8%27.0%6.4%7.8%
P/E ratioPrice paid per dollar of annual profit.35.37x38.82x1.08x84.94x38.82x
EV / EBITDA (approx.)Market value plus debt less cash, against operating profit before depreciation. Cash excludes short-term investments, so this runs high for cash-rich companies.—21.09x2.44x38.70x21.09x
Price to book16.48x4.01x0.81x34.81x4.01x
Debt to equityTotal liabilities compared with owners' stake.5.96x1.59x7.90x29.85x7.90x
Piotroski F-ScoreNine checks of financial strength. Higher is stronger.5/88/86/97/97.0
Bankruptcy riskAltman Z-Score zone.not reportedgreygreydistress

How GE compares with the others

  • GE's profit margin of 19.0% is higher than the median of the other companies selected (6.7%).
  • Its revenue grew faster than the median of the other companies selected: 18.5% against 9.7%.
  • It trades at a P/E in line with the median of the other companies selected (35.4x against 38.8x).
  • Its liabilities are lower relative to equity than the median of the other companies selected: 6.0x against 7.9x.

Measured against the other companies entered, from each one's latest annual filing. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.