Top Percentile

Business Excellence

Our proprietary Business Excellence (BE) score distils a company's overall quality into a single number, derived purely from its financial statements. BE evaluates more than 30 economic metrics across seven categories to offer a comprehensive assessment of the business.

BE is an absolute score, completely independent of company valuation metrics, stock market performance and peer-to-peer comparisons.

After determining the raw score, we calculate a percentile ranking against every company in our database. A percentile score of 100 reflects the highest-performing companies in terms of underlying financial and operational strength.

The BE score is available in two formats: a “Period” score, based on a single financial statement period, and an “Overall” score, which exponentially weights the last five years of reported financial statements to offer a long-term perspective.