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Capital One Financial COF Return on assets

Return on assets at other companies

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American ExpressAXP
3.8%+0.1pp
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JPMorgan ChaseJPM
1.3%-0.1pp
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Bank of AmericaBAC
0.9%+0.1pp
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Wells Fargo & CompanyWFC
1%0.0pp
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CitigroupC
0.6%+0.1pp
Synchrony Financial logo
Synchrony FinancialSYF
3%+0.5pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$15.2B+52.3%
Net income$2.2B+54.8%
EPS (diluted)$3.34-3.2%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$79.3B+61.9%
Total debt$53.5B+26.4%
Total equity$112.26B+76.7%
Total assets$682.91B+38.4%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$6.0B+29.1%
CapEx$553.0M+58.9%
Free cash flow$5.5B+26.7%

Valuation

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Market cap$125B+65.2%
Enterprise value$99.26B+41.4%
P/E38.8×+23.3×
P/S2.1×+0.2×

Profitability

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Net margin5.5%-6.8pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity3.7%-4.4pp
Debt / equity0.5×-0.2×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Capital One Financial’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Capital One Financial’s 10-Q, filed May 7, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Capital One Financial's return on assets?
Capital One Financial (COF) reported return on assets of 0.5% in Q1 2026.
How has Capital One Financial's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Capital One Financial's return on assets decreased by 45.2% year-over-year, from 1% to 0.5%.
What is the long-term trend for Capital One Financial's return on assets?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Capital One Financial's return on assets has grown at a -36.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 10.5% to 1.7%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.