TREELendingTree, Inc.

$25.37-57% 1Y

RyuScore

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

RyuScore 58 out of 100, Average
Today's price. Only valuation depends on it.

Average. LendingTree, Inc. scores higher than 57% of the 2,291 companies Ryufin scores.

Carried by valuation and return on new capital, held back by return on capital and the balance sheet.

Financial Services median 63 · all companies 54

How the score has moved

At each fiscal year end, from the reports and price of the time
34
31
20
55
58
2020202220232025today

The biggest move was up 35 points from 2023 to 2025, mostly valuation.

Valuation

26% of the score, 30% here after data gaps

97median 50

LendingTree, Inc. is valued at 9x its operating profit before acquisition amortisation (EBITA), including debt: a low multiple.

60x
50x
35x
25x
18x
12x
8x
9x
Full points at 8x or less, none from 60xfull points

Return on capital

18% of the score, 20% here after data gaps

0median 23

Over 7 years the business earned 1.5% a year after tax on the capital it uses.

2%
8%
15%
25%
1.5%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
Return on capital by year
7 years agolatest 11%

Return on new capital

16% of the score, 18% here after data gaps

100median 33

For every dollar of operating profit earned over 6 years, yearly profit grew by 148 cents. It did so while using less capital than before.

-5%
12%
148%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points

Capital allocation

14% of the score, 16% here after data gaps

66median 63

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

Share countUp 1.6% a year over 5 years: new shares
43
5%
-3%
1.6%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew -6.4% a year, sales 4.2%
100
12%
-2%
-11%
0 pointsfull points

Cycle position

Taken out: its 12% is shared by the others

n/ano data

Margins have been too thin to measure a cycle against.

Balance sheet

8% of the score, 9% here after data gaps

13median 50

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

Net debt to EBITDA3.8x a year of EBITDA
17
4.5x
0.5x
3.8x
0 pointsfull points
Interest coverOperating profit covers interest 3x
9
1.5x
12x
2.5x
0 pointsfull points

Earnings quality

6% of the score, 7% here after data gaps

0median 90

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

AccrualsProfit ran ahead of cash by 9.6% of assets
0
8%
0%
-8%
9.6%
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. For TREE, cycle position could not be measured from the filings, so it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up.

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.