FOS Capital (ASX:FOS) Sloan Ratio %: 10.16% (As of Dec. 2025)

FOS Capital  (ASX:FOS) Sloan Ratio % Explanation

A former University of Michigan researcher, Richard Sloan's 1996 paper found that shares of companies with small or negative accruals vastly outperform (+10%) those of companies with large ones. In fact, for the 40-year period between 1962 and 2001, buying the lowest accrual companies and shorting the highest accrual companies resulted in an average annual compounded return of 18%, more than double the S&P 500's 7.4% annual return over the same period.

According to How to Beat the Market with the Sloan Ratio:

If the Sloan Ratio is between -10% and 10%, the company is in the safe zone and there is no funny business with accruals.

If the Sloan Ratio is less than between -25% and -10% on the negative side, and between 10% and 25% on the positive side, this is a warning stage of accrual build up.

If the Sloan Ratio is less than -25% or greater than 25%, and this ratio is consistent over several quarters or even years, be careful. Earnings are highly likely to be made up of accruals.

As of Dec. 2025, FOS Capital has a Sloan Ratio of 10.16%, indicating there is a warning stage of accrual build up.

FOS Capital Sloan Ratio % Related Terms

The historical data trend for FOS Capital's Sloan Ratio % can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

FOS Capital Sloan Ratio % Chart

FOS Capital Semi-Annual Data
	Dec20	Jun21	Dec21	Jun22	Dec22	Jun23	Dec23	Jun24	Dec24	Jun25	Dec25
Sloan Ratio %	Get a 7-Day Free Trial						11.64	8.96	-7.74	11.47	10.16

ASX:FOS vs VRT, BE, HUBB: Sloan Ratio % Comparison

For the Electrical Equipment & Parts subindustry, FOS Capital's Sloan Ratio %, along with its competitors' market caps and Sloan Ratio % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

FOS Capital Sloan Ratio % vs Industrial Products Industry

For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, FOS Capital's Sloan Ratio % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where FOS Capital's Sloan Ratio % falls into.

FOS Capital Sloan Ratio % Calculation

Earnings contain a lot of non cash earnings which is called accruals. The Sloan ratio is a way to identify firms with low non-cash or accrual-derived earnings relative to their cash flow.

FOS Capital's Sloan Ratio for the fiscal year that ended in Jun. 2025 is calculated as

FOS Capital's Sloan Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2025 is calculated as

For company reported semi-annually, GuruFocus uses latest two semi-annual data as the TTM data. FOS Capital's Net Income for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2025 was 0.145 (Jun. 2025 ) + -0.606 (Dec. 2025 ) = A$-0.46 Mil.
FOS Capital's Cash Flow from Operations for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2025 was -0.18 (Jun. 2025 ) + 0.402 (Dec. 2025 ) = A$0.22 Mil.
FOS Capital's Cash Flow from Investing for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2025 was -3.304 (Jun. 2025 ) + 0.218 (Dec. 2025 ) = A$-3.09 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

FOS Capital Business Description