Wayfair W Return on equity
Discontinued — last reported Q3 '17
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Wayfair’s reported figures.
Based on trailing twelve months.
The official record: Wayfair’s 10-Q, filed November 1, 2018, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
Questions, answered.
- 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.