How We Grade Companies
Our benchmarks are built on 836,894 financial statements from 6 countries. Here's exactly how we compute your grade.
836,894
companies
549
cohorts
6
countries
85
sectors
Your Grade = Your Position on the Bell Curve
We don't compare you to arbitrary thresholds. We compare you to every company in your industry and revenue bracket.
A+ is reserved for the top 2.3% of companies in your peer group. Bmeans you're right at the median — solid, but leaving money on the table.
Built on Public Financial Filings
We don't use surveys or estimates. Every data point comes from official financial statements filed with government registries.
All data is publicly available under open government licenses. We refresh annually as new filings become available.
How Grading Works
Find Your Peer Group
We group companies by industry (NACE 2-digit) and revenue bracket (€1-5M, €5-20M, etc.). Your peer group might contain 2,847 wholesale companies in the €5M-20M range across France.
Compute Your Z-Score
For each metric (EBITDA margin, DSO, ROE…), we calculate how many standard deviations you are from your peer group's mean.
Z-score = (Your value − Peer mean) / Peer std dev
Your EBITDA 14.9%, peer mean 8.1%, peer std 4.2% → Z = +1.62 → Grade: A
Map to the Bell Curve
Z-scores map directly to the normal distribution. This guarantees a bell curve across the population:
Your overall grade is a weighted composite of 8–10 individual KPI grades.
What 836,894 Companies Reveal
3.1×
Top quartile earns 3.1× the EBITDA of median peers
15.1%
of companies pass the Rule of 40 (growth + margin ≥ 40)
51%
of A+ companies stay A+ the next year
3.1%
of D-rated companies escape to A-tier the next year
“Without intervention, 97% of underperforming companies stay underperforming. That's why playbooks matter.”
How Your Overall Grade Is Calculated
EBITDA margin and revenue growth together account for 45% of your overall grade — because PE investors care most about profitable growth.
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