Valuation
26% of the score
100median 13
Danaos Corporation is valued at 4.5x its operating profit, including debt: cheap enough for full points.
25x
20x
15x
10x
6x
4.5x
Full points at 6x or less, none from 25xfull points
DACDanaos Corporation
$153.41+63% 1Y
$153.41
$82.7952 weeks$162.41
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 88 out of 100, Strong
Today's price. Only valuation depends on it.
Strong. Danaos Corporation scores higher than 99% of the 1,794 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by valuation and capital allocation, with nothing holding it far back.
Industrials median 53 · all companies 50
Return on capital
18% of the score
76median 34
Over 7 years the business earned 14% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
14%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
7 years agolatest 13%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
84median 49
For every dollar of operating profit earned over 6 years, yearly profit grew by 9 cents. New capital earned 29%, and 32% of profit went back into the business.
-5%
12%
9.3%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points
Capital allocation
14% of the score
100median 64
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countDown 4.9% a year over 5 years: buybacks
1005%
-3%
-4.9%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 14% a year, sales 18%
10012%
-2%
-4.2%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
64median 62
Today's operating margin of 52% is 1.01x its normal 51%: close to 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
1x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow 52%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
100median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Net debt to EBITDA0.2x a year of EBITDA
1004.5x
0.5x
0.2x
0 pointsfull points
Interest coverOperating profit covers interest 19x
1001.5x
12x
18.8x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
79median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
Cash against profitOperating cash flow was 1.17x profit over 3 years
830.7x
1x
1.3x
1.2x
0 pointsfull points
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 3.2% of assets
768%
0%
-8%
-3.2%
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. Figures as of 2025-06-30, latest annual report FY2025.