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MKTW

Marketwise

Technology · fiscal year ending 2025-12-31

Through the investors’ lenses

1 of 3 cleared2 of 4 criteria

Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.

Warren Buffett 2/2
MeasureMKTWChecked against
Owner earnings$7.42mpositive
Return on equityUS median 2.8%
Debt to equityUS median 0.57x
Operating margin19.1%US median 3.1%

Passes 2 of 2. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to Marketwise’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Benjamin Graham 0/1
MeasureMKTWChecked against
Current ratio0.56x2.00x published
Long-term debt to working capital1.00x published

Passes 0 of 1. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to Marketwise’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Peter Lynch 0/1
MeasureMKTWChecked against
Debt to equityUS median 0.57x
Net margin1.7%US median 2.0%

Passes 0 of 1. These are the measures Peter Lynch published, applied to Marketwise’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

BasisPayoutWhy
GAAP earnings84.9%
why
The figure most screeners publish.
Operating cash flow10.4%
why
Before capital spending.
Free cash flow 10.5%
why
After maintaining the business.

Spread between highest and lowest: 74.5 percentage points. Same filings, different denominators.

Coverage rating 75 / 100 — Adequate. ? Peer standing 47/50Direction 18/30Stability 10/20

Free cash flow payout, last 2 years

Fiscal yearPayout
2025-12-3110.5%
2023-12-319.2%

94% of the 48 technology here pay out more — comfortable for the sector.

The arithmetic

Where the figures came from

Every one is public at sec.gov and free to check. That is the point — you should not have to take our word for any of it.

Caveats on this company


Computed by an open pipeline reading SEC XBRL directly. If any number here looks wrong to you, tell us — that is more useful to us than agreement.

What the free cash flow payout ratio measures, and where every company here sits on it.

Also on: rated adequate · when it files.

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