CBOECboe Global Markets

$253.36+9.4% 1Y

RyuScore

Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.

RyuScore 70 out of 100, Above average
Today's price. Only valuation depends on it.

Above average. Cboe Global Markets scores higher than 85% of the 1,794 companies Ryufin scores.

Carried by return on new capital and return on capital, held back by cycle position.

Financial Services median 58 · all companies 50

Valuation

26% of the score

54median 13

Cboe Global Markets is valued at 16x its operating profit before acquisition amortisation (EBITA), including debt: an ordinary multiple.

25x
20x
15x
10x
6x
16x
Full points at 6x or less, none from 25xfull points

Return on capital

18% of the score

66median 34

Over 7 years the business earned 12% a year after tax on the capital it uses.

2%
8%
15%
25%
12%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
Return on capital by year
7 years agolatest 20%

Return on new capital

16% of the score

95median 49

For every dollar of operating profit earned over 6 years, yearly profit grew by 11 cents. It did so while using less capital than before.

-5%
12%
11%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points

Capital allocation

14% of the score

75median 64

How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.

Share countDown 0.8% a year over 5 years: buybacks
72
5%
-3%
-0.8%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 7.4% a year, sales 6.6%
80
12%
-2%
0.8%
0 pointsfull points

Cycle position

12% of the score

40median 62

Today's operating margin of 31% is 1.32x its normal 24%: above its usual level. Normal is half the 10 year median, half the last four years, so a margin that has held is not taken for a peak.

2x
1.5x
1x
0.7x
1.3x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
Operating margin by year, against its normal level
10 years agonow 31%

Balance sheet

8% of the score

100median 50

What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.

Net debt to EBITDAMore cash than debt
100
Interest coverOperating profit covers interest 28x
100
1.5x
12x
28.1x
0 pointsfull points

Earnings quality

6% of the score

99median 90

Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.

Cash against profitOperating cash flow was 1.50x profit over 3 years
100
0.7x
1x
1.3x
1.5x
0 pointsfull points
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 7.6% of assets
98
8%
0%
-8%
-7.6%
0 pointsfull points

How the RyuScore works

Each criterion earns 0 to 100 points on the scale drawn under it, and the RyuScore is their average weighted 26, 18, 16, 14, 12, 8 and 6. Scales bend in the company's favour between their ends, so an ordinary figure is never already near zero. Where a criterion cannot be measured from the filings it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up; a company needs 60% of the weight covered, and always a price, to get a score.

Built from the company's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC and today's share price. Banks, insurers and property trusts are not scored: their debt is their raw material, so these yardsticks mean something else there.