GCC’s RODE Stocks

Executive Summary

What is this report about?
Top 30 RODE stocks report identifies and analyzes top performing stocks in GCC using various factors including ROIC (Return on Invested Capital) for non-banking/ ROE (Return on Equity) for banks, Dividend yield and Earnings yield. The report further analyzes the performance of a portfolio consisting of top 30 RODE stocks with that of S&P GCC index. It sheds light as to how security selection using specific parameters could result in substantially higher returns as compared to the benchmark.

Who will benefit and why?
The report stands to benefit any individual or organization who are related to equity markets particularly those who closely analyze the fundamentals of a company, including buy and sell side firms, individual companies, fund managers, institutional investors and retail investors amongst others. This report would help the reader to gain insights on the top 30 RODE stocks in the GCC region. The analysis stands to benefit investor by providing them information that will help them in making a more informed investment decisions.

How exhaustive is this report?
The report has analyzed the top 30 stocks in terms of market cap, at country level and at broad industry level. The list of top 30 stocks was arrived at after considering various fundamental factors such as ROIC (Return on Invested Capital) for non-banking/ROE (Return on Equity) for banks, Dividend yield and Earnings yield. We also explored factors that could possibly lead to deviation in the returns in a portfolio and the benchmark that it tracks.