A Quick Guide to our Datapoints

Profitability Metrics:

• Earnings per Share

  
  Share Price / Earnings per Share. An indicator how expensive the shares are relative the company's profits.

• Return on Average Common Equity (ROE)

  
  The common shareholders' rate of return for their investment. Expressed in our datagrid as a decimal, but often elsewhere as a percentage.

• Net Profit Margin

  
  Net Income / Revenue. How profitable a business is relative to its sales.

• Relative Cash Flow

  
  Enterprise Value / CFFO. Compares operating cash flows to the size of the company. A more refined evaluation of price than P/E ratio, which omits the balance sheet and allows for more accounting tricks. Smaller relative losses are better than larger ones, and larger relative gains are better than smaller ones. Raw figures may require some mental math to understand, so for a quick reference just look at a company's percentage ranking for this metric to see how it compares to its peers or to mining companies in general.

• Enterprise Value / Revenue:

  
  Indicates how expensive a company is relative to revenue. Preferred here to the oft-cited Price:Sales ratio, which omits the balance sheet.

• Dividends: Latest Annual Dividends

  
  Standard measure of profitability; higher is better.

• Dividend Yields: Dividends / Share Price

  
  Standard measure of profitability; higher is better.