Lincoln Electric Holdings LECO Return on equity
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Lincoln Electric Holdings’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Lincoln Electric Holdings’s 10-Q, filed October 27, 2023, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Lincoln Electric Holdings's return on equity?
- Lincoln Electric Holdings (LECO) reported return on equity of 46.3% in Q3 2023.
- How has Lincoln Electric Holdings's return on equity changed year-over-year?
- Lincoln Electric Holdings's return on equity decreased by 5.7% year-over-year, from 49.1% to 46.3%.
- What does return on equity mean?
- How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
- How do you interpret return on equity?
- Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
- How does return on equity compare across companies?
- Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.