O'Reilly Automotive ORLY Return on equity
Discontinued — last reported Q2 '21
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Where this comes from
Calculated from O'Reilly Automotive’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: O'Reilly Automotive’s 10-Q, filed August 6, 2021, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is O'Reilly Automotive's return on equity?
- O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY) reported return on equity of 497.6% in Q2 2021.
- 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.