BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.

BFH · Financials · Bank · FY2025 filings ·

Scored by the financial-sector model

Financial-sector score88/ 100Wide moat
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BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC. is a bank, scored by a separate financial-sector model — not the operating Moat Score you’ll see on other companies. A bank or insurer is a balance-sheet business the margin-and-ROIC lens doesn’t fit, so it’s read through the components below instead. The two models are calibrated differently and are not comparable: a financial-sector score is never ranked against, sorted with, or averaged into an operating Moat Score. How the models work.

What the financial-sector model scores (bank)

Return on equity96

Median ROE 16.2% on average equity, above the 10% hurdle in 89% of 9 years.

Capital strength100

Q3 scored 2 evidenced ratios equally.

Earnings stability60

Profitable in 100% of 10 years, ROE volatile.

Net interest income94

Net interest income is 17.57% of average assets, very steady over 7 years through FY2025.

Not scored for this company

Book value growth
Not enough years of equity and share counts to score book-value growth.
Underwriting discipline
Underwriting applies to insurance carriers; not part of the bank model.

Scored 4 of 5 applicable components (bank model); weights renormalized over the scored set.

Fundamentals

The 15-year revenue, margin, and ROIC series is built for the operating model’s lens and isn’t published for banks and insurers — a balance-sheet business is read through the components above, not through operating-company margins.

Financial-sector score history

ReadingScoreTier
Jul 26, 202687.5Wide moat
Jul 26, 202687.5Wide moat

Append-only — readings are added, never rewritten. Only readings on the same methodology version (moat-index-financials@1.0.0) are comparable; a change across versions is a scoring change, not a company event.

BFH Financial-Sector Score 87.5 — FY2025 | Buy Like Buffett