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. Filtered by market "Europe (incl. UK)", market cap "Small <$2B", No report yet: 27 match(clear filters).

#	Ticker	Mkt Cap	Score▼	10Y ROE	Profit Streak	Net Debt/Eq	Gross Margin	Report	FY
1	Kainos Group PLC KNOS · LSE	$1.3B	92/100 Elite	34.4%low 25.8%	10 yr+	Net cash	48%	—	FY2026
2	MONY Group plc MONY · LSE	$1.3B	91/100 Elite	37.1%low 25.9%	10 yr+	0.1×	66%	—	FY2025
3	Foresight Group Holdings Limited FSG · LSE	$680M	89/100 Elite	41.8%low 29.8%	9 yr	Net cash	91%	—	FY2026
4	IntegraFin Holdings plc IHP · LSE	$1.6B	85/100 Elite	28.1%low 22.8%	10 yr+	Net cash	93%	—	FY2025
5	Domino’s Pizza Group PLC DOM · LSE	$988M	80/100 Elite	40.7%^‡low 23.4%	10 yr+	—	45%	—	FY2025
6	Bytes Technology Ltd BYIT · LSE	$1.2B	78/100 Strong	54.3%low 35.9%	10 yr+	Net cash	54%	—	FY2026
7	A.G.Barr PLC BAG · LSE	$909M	75/100 Strong	14.1%low 8.3%	10 yr+	Net cash	42%	—	FY2026
8	4Imprint Group Plc FOUR · LSE	$1.5B	74/100 Strong	50.9%low 4.7%	10 yr+	Net cash	29%	—	FY2025
9	Telecom Plus PLC TEP · LSE	$858M	74/100 Strong	20.9%low 11.8%	10 yr+	0.5×	18%	—	FY2026
10	Ashmore Group Plc ASHM · LSE	$1.7B	69/100 Strong	17.0%low 9.3%	10 yr+	Net cash	71%	—	FY2025
11	Oxford Instruments PLC OXIG · LSE	$1.9B	64/100 Medium	10.0%low -19.2%	9 yr	Net cash	50%	—	FY2026
12	Volution Group plc FAN · LSE	$1.6B	61/100 Medium	12.0%low 5.5%	10 yr+	0.6×	45%	—	FY2025
13	Moonpig Group PLC MOON · LSE	$1.0B	59/100 Medium	49.3%^‡low 22.3%	1 yr	—	53%	—	FY2026
14	Coats Group PLC COA · LSE	$2.0B	52/100 Medium	20.3%low -2.4%	3 yr	1.3×	35%	—	FY2025
15	Kier Group PLC KIE · LSE	$1.3B	52/100 Medium	-11.6%low -113.5%	4 yr	Net cash	8%	—	FY2025
16	Hollywood Bowl Group PLC BOWL · LSE	$610M	51/100 Medium	16.0%low 1.6%	10 yr+	1.5×	71%	—	FY2025
17	Hilton Food Group Plc HFG · LSE	$704M	50/100 Medium	14.0%low 6.0%	10 yr+	0.9×	10%	—	FY2025
18	Baltic Classifieds Group PLC BCG · LSE	$1.1B	49/100 Weak	11.7%low -2.8%	5 yr	0.1×	89%	—	FY2026
19	Me Group International PLC MEGP · LSE	$561M	49/100 Weak	19.1%low -22.1%	5 yr	Net cash	27%	—	FY2025
20	Jupiter Fund Management Plc JUP · LSE	$1.0B	47/100 Weak	14.1%low -1.6%	2 yr	Net cash	84%	—	FY2025
21	XPS Pensions Group PLC XPS · LSE	$859M	46/100 Weak	5.1%low -46.7%	9 yr	0.4×	53%	—	FY2026
22	Trainline Plc TRN · LSE	$1.1B	33/100 Poor	0.3%low -32.2%	5 yr	1.0×	63%	—	FY2026
23	Galapagos N.V. GLPG · Amsterdam	$1.7B	31/100 Poor	-0.6%low -11.6%	3 yr	Net cash	41%	—	FY2025
24	FirstGroup PLC FGP · LSE	$1.2B	27/100 Poor	6.5%low -27.0%	2 yr	1.0×	35%	—	FY2026
25	Fidelity Emerging Markets Ord FEML · LSE	$691M	23/100 Poor	1.5%low -62.4%	3 yr	—	-92%	—	FY2025
26	Diversified Energy Company PLC DEC · LSE	$886M	22/100 Poor	14.4%low -50.2%	1 yr	3.0×	39%	—	FY2025
27	J D Wetherspoon PLC JDW · LSE	$1.1B	17/100 Poor	3.7%low -63.7%	5 yr	3.1×	8%	—	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.