First Marblehead's Competitiveness
A competitive positioning analysis and financial ratio benchmarking of First Marblehead (FMD) against its publicly traded competitors: sales growth, net income, profitability, valuation and market share, plus each peer's market capitalization, revenue, income and employees. Free below: the top 5 peers. Subscriber access adds the full competitor list and CSV downloads.
Key Findings: First Marblehead vs Its Competitors
- TTM: Trailing 12-month revenue of 52M vs -M combined for tracked competitors (100.0% combined share).
- Trending: Latest-quarter revenue run-rate is accelerating (+13.7% annualized vs trailing 12 months).
- Peer revenue share: First Marblehead accounted for 100.0% of combined revenue among its tracked peer group, up from 100.0% a year earlier.
Every figure above is sourced and cited in detail further down this page (Market Structure, Profitability & Cost Structure, Productivity vs Peers).
FMD Sales vs. its Competitors, Q2 2016
First Marblehead generated 100.00 % of the combined sales of its peer group, up from 100.00 % a year earlier.
For context: the Consumer Financial Services industry grew revenue 9.0% year over year, combined, vs 11.9% for First Marblehead. First Marblehead's share of combined industry revenue moved from 0.03% to 0.03%, a gain of 0.00 percentage points.
First Marblehead's Competitor Quality Breadth
Share of each group, trailing 12 months: profitable (net margin > 0), expanding (revenue growth > 0), growing faster than the industry's own median, and financially distressed (Piotroski F-Score of 2 or below).
| Entity | Profitable | Expanding | Above Industry Growth | Distressed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Marblehead Corp | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Similar Growth & Profitability (8) | 50.00 % (4 of 8) | 62.50 % (5 of 8) | 37.50 % (3 of 8) | 14.30 % (1 of 7) |
Source: CSIMarket API, trailing 12 months. Altman Z-Score is not shown here: it is not populated in the underlying data for any company. Percentages are of companies in each group that report the relevant metric, not of the full group size.