Screen · Berkshire Criteria

Buffett Quality Screen

Buffett's "wonderful business" criteria, quantified into six dimensions: earnings record (20), ROE quality (25 — Fortune's double standard), low leverage (15), pricing power (15), business stability (15) and capital efficiency (10), for a 0–100 total. The entry gate is the first of Berkshire's acquisition criteria — at least $50M average pre-tax earnings over the last three fiscal years (banks and insurers excluded, as leverage is their business model; investment trusts and closed-end funds excluded, as they are portfolios rather than operating companies). Recomputed periodically from each company's last ten fiscal years; cross-listings merged by canonical ticker. Hover the score for the six-dimension breakdown; companies we cover link to their report. Gefiltert nach score tier "Exzellent", market cap "Mega ≥$200B", No report yet: 22 match(Filter löschen).

# Titel Mkt Cap Score 10Y ROE Profit Streak Net Debt/Eq Gross Margin Analyse FY
1 Visa Inc. Class A V · USA $684B
95/100 Exzellent
35.7%low 18.2% 10 yr+ 0.1× 81% FY2025
2 KLA Corporation KLAC · USA $239B
93/100 Exzellent
55.9%low 44.2% 10 yr+ 0.2× 61% FY2026
3 Kweichow Moutai Co Ltd 600519 · Shanghai $236B
93/100 Exzellent
30.8%low 22.9% 10 yr+ Net cash 90% FY2025
4 ASML Holding NV ADR ASML · USA $626B
92/100 Exzellent
36.5%low 15.9% 10 yr+ Net cash 49% FY2025
5 Applied Materials Inc AMAT · USA $403B
92/100 Exzellent
38.9%low 23.8% 10 yr+ Net cash 46% FY2025
6 Roche Holding AG ROG · SW $326B
92/100 Exzellent
39.6%low 26.1% 10 yr+ 0.5× 72% FY2025
7 Microsoft Corporation MSFT · USA $3.5T
91/100 Exzellent
34.6%low 20.0% 10 yr+ 0.1× 68% FY2026
8 Lam Research Corp LRCX · USA $367B
90/100 Exzellent
48.3%low 24.3% 10 yr+ Net cash 47% FY2026
9 American Express Company AXP · USA $227B
89/100 Exzellent
27.8%low 13.6% 10 yr+ 0.3× 87% FY2025
10 LOréal S.A. OR · Paris $222B
88/100 Exzellent
16.5%low 12.3% 10 yr+ 0.1× 73% FY2025
11 Novo Nordisk A/S NOVO-B · CO $210B
88/100 Exzellent
59.3%low 52.8% 10 yr+ 0.5× 84% FY2025
12 Cisco Systems Inc CSCO · USA $457B
87/100 Exzellent
22.4%low 0.3% 10 yr+ 0.3× 63% FY2025
13 Costco Wholesale Corp COST · USA $422B
87/100 Exzellent
25.4%low 19.5% 10 yr+ Net cash 13% FY2025
14 Mastercard Inc MA · USA $502B
86/100 Exzellent
60.0%low 60.0% 10 yr+ 1.0× 77% FY2025
15 Alphabet Inc Class C GOOG · USA $4.4T
85/100 Exzellent
21.7%low 8.3% 10 yr+ Net cash 57% FY2025
16 UnitedHealth Group Incorporated UNH · USA $376B
84/100 Exzellent
21.4%low 12.8% 10 yr+ 0.5× 23% FY2025
17 Procter & Gamble Company PG · USA $335B
84/100 Exzellent
26.6%low 8.3% 10 yr+ 0.4× 50% FY2026
18 Apple Inc. AAPL · USA $4.5T
83/100 Exzellent
54.7%low 35.6% 10 yr+ 0.8× 41% FY2025
19 LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton MC · Paris $253B
83/100 Exzellent
19.2%low 12.1% 10 yr+ 0.3× 67% FY2025
20 Johnson & Johnson JNJ · USA $618B
82/100 Exzellent
25.5%low 2.2% 10 yr+ 0.3× 69% FY2025
21 Texas Instruments Incorporated TXN · USA $252B
82/100 Exzellent
46.2%low 28.4% 10 yr+ 0.6× 63% FY2025
22 Nestle S.A. NESN · SW $265B
80/100 Exzellent
23.7%low 11.7% 10 yr+ 1.6× 48% FY2025

Data and methodology: the six dimensions quantify Berkshire's published acquisition criteria and Buffett's shareholder letters (1981/1987/1991/2007 among others). Qualitative tests in the originals (e.g. "simple, understandable business", "management in place") are out of scope, and price ("available at a fair price") is covered by each report's valuation range instead. Financials come from company annual reports (via EODHD); ratios are computed in reporting currency, the USD gate via static FX. "‡" marks companies whose equity is persistently negative or tiny (ROE falls back to ROCE); "†" marks missing gross profit (operating margin used). Investment trusts and closed-end funds are excluded on two tests — name and financial shape (operating margins beyond what an operating company can achieve); REITs and operating asset managers are unaffected. This is a quantitative first pass, not investment advice. When citing this data, please credit Zen Horizon (zh.app). See our methodology for the scoring process.