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Dividend investing isn't just about yield—it's about sustainability. Our dividend research library covers payout ratio analysis, hidden liability screening, and sector-specific safety rankings across insurance, utilities, consumer staples, and more.
All three companies raised dividends in 2025. All three beat Q3 earnings estimates. But one has a $950 million hidden liability that most investors don't see. Progressive's 26.8% payout looks sustainable until you examine what's buried in the filing footnotes.
Traditional dividend screening misses deterioration. This 4-metric framework with 8-quarter payout trends predicted 3M's 54% cut 6 months early, Intel's 2024 suspension, and Leggett & Platt's 89% reduction. Screen 938 dividend stocks for sustainability in under 30 seconds.
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.
Five US-listed rare earth and critical minerals companies hold a combined ~$16 billion market cap. We computed cash runway, dilution velocity, and project funding gaps from their latest 10-Q XBRL data — then cross-referenced every government funding headline against what the SEC filings actually disclose. Key findings: NioCorp is 27% funded for the $1.14B Elk Creek Project with an EXIM timeline they 'cannot estimate.' Perpetua is 32% funded for a $2.2B project facing two federal lawsuits. NB shareholders have been diluted 210% from baseline. MP Materials is the only company with binding customer contracts and government price protection — but it's still burning $230M per year in free cash flow.
We computed ROIC from XBRL financial data for every NYSE-listed copper miner with processed filings. Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) — the world's largest publicly traded copper producer — earns the lowest return on invested capital at 9.2%, while Southern Copper (SCCO) generates 24.2% on half the revenue. The 10-K filings reveal why: FCX's Indonesia operations depend on $2.82/lb gold credits to achieve negative cash costs, while SCCO's $0.89/lb cost structure is built on vertical integration and 60-year mine lives.
Our analysis of 2,100+ SEC filers reveals that cost of revenue reporting in XBRL is even more fragmented than revenue. Only 38% of filers use the most common element (CostOfGoodsAndServicesSold), 36% have no standard COGS element at all, and ExxonMobil's $199.5 billion in crude oil purchases is invisible to standard extraction — producing a misleading 100% gross margin.