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Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)

ROIC measures how efficiently a company turns the capital invested in it (debt plus equity) into profit. A consistently high ROIC, especially relative to a company's cost of capital, is one of the clearest quantitative signals of a well-run, competitively advantaged business - and a common scoring criterion in quality-focused screens.

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