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E&P companies properly account for $35.7B in asset retirement obligations. Pure refiners? Nearly zero—until they're forced to close. Valero's $337M Benicia ARO surprise in April 2025 reveals what investors miss in refinery financials.
Amphenol posted 52% revenue growth, 450bps of margin expansion, and closed its largest acquisition in history. The stock dropped. DuPont decomposition explains why: 86% of the balance sheet growth came from a single quarter, and incremental returns fell below the cost of debt.
86% of Amazon's ROIC decline is capital turnover compression — not margin deterioration. The 10-K reveals why: $59B in new servers, a depreciation reversal on AI hardware, and $440B in irrevocable commitments. At $200B capex, the margin of safety is compressing.
Howmet Aerospace earns 34% gross margins with sole-source pricing power in jet engine castings — yet GAAP ROIC is only 18.6%. The FY2025 10-K reveals why: $4.5 billion in legacy goodwill from the Alcoa-Arconic spinoff chain sits on the balance sheet generating zero revenue. Tangible ROIC is 35%. Cash ROIC hit 28% in Q4. The market prices HWM at 59x earnings anyway — and a $1.8B acquisition is about to add more goodwill.
Meta's Family of Apps earns a 51.5% operating margin. Its ROIC is declining at -6.3 points per quarter. Both facts are true simultaneously. The gap between them reveals everything about the largest AI infrastructure bet in advertising history — and the accounting policies designed to make it look cheaper than it is.
Screen 50 stocks by ROIC, FCF Yield, and 3 other metrics yfinance cannot provide. Percentile-ranked composite score: Quality (60%) + Value (40%). One script, one API call, no signup.
A stock with a low PE looks cheap. But if ROIC is declining, you're buying a deteriorating business at a discount that keeps getting bigger. Stock Pulse compares any stock to its own 2-year baseline and diagnoses VALUE TRAP or OPPORTUNITY. One API call, no signup.