Every stock on Obermatt carries one headline number: the 360° rank. It is the average of four pillar ranks — value, growth, safety and sentiment — each itself a peer-relative rank from 1 to 100. A 360° of 75 means that, averaged across all four perspectives, the company stands better than three quarters of its true peers.
The four pillars
- Value — is the stock attractively priced? Four lenses: price/sales, price/earnings, price/book and dividend yield, each ranked against peers and averaged.
- Growth — is the business expanding? Revenue growth, profit growth, capital growth and the 52-week total shareholder return.
- Safety — can the balance sheet take a hit? Leverage, liquidity and refinancing capacity (with bank-specific variants for banks).
- Sentiment — what does the market think? Analyst opinions, professional holdings, opinion changes and news-driven market pulse.
The pillars deliberately pull in different directions. A deep-value stock is rarely a sentiment darling; a hyper-growth name is rarely cheap. That tension is the point: a high 360° can’t be won on one story alone. The companies that score 85+ are doing well on several fronts at once — which is rarer, and more interesting, than excelling at one.
Reading it in practice
Treat the 360° as a sorting device, not a verdict. It answers “which of these 8,000 companies deserve twenty minutes of my attention?” — then the pillar ranks tell you why a stock scores the way it does. A 78 driven by value and safety is a very different investment from a 78 driven by growth and sentiment, and the expandable rank bars on every stock page exist precisely so you can see the difference in one glance.