Warren Buffett Quality Stock Screen — Germany

Warren Buffett prefers a wonderful business at a fair price to a fair business at a wonderful price. This screen looks for the financial footprint of such businesses: high returns on equity and on assets, wide profit margins and little debt, among companies worth at least €1 billion.

The rules of this screen

A stock listed in Germany appears below only if it passes every rule:

  • Return on equity (ROE) of at least 15%
  • Return on assets (ROA) of at least 7%
  • Net profit margin of at least 15%
  • Debt-to-equity of 0.5 or less (total debt at most 50% of shareholders' equity)
  • Market cap of at least €1 billion

Data comes from company filings and market prices, refreshed after every trading day. Stocks with a missing value for any rule are left out.

Warren Buffett Quality Stock Screen — Germany: top stocks by market cap

7 German stocks match this screen. All 7 by market cap, data as of 13 Nov 2026.

#CompanyTickerSectorMkt CapP/EDiv Yield1Y
1SAP SESAPXETRATechnology€246.4B30.71.19%-1.7%
2Nemetschek SENEMXETRATechnology€7.3B29.71.06%-31.7%
3RATIONAL AktiengesellschaftRAAXETRAIndustrials€7.1B26.42.54%-4.4%
4Scout24 SEG24XETRACommunication Services€6.3B20.11.65%-1.3%
5Elmos Semiconductor SEELGXETRATechnology€2.0B16.91.31%+25.8%
6ATOSS Software SEAOFXETRATechnology€1.4B27.32.58%-20.3%
7Shelly Group SESLYGXETRAIndustrials€1.2B38.60.20%+24.3%

The same rules on every market the screener covers: the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and more. Free, no account needed.

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How to use this screen

High returns today do not prove a durable competitive advantage, and the screen has no valuation test, so many of these companies trade at high multiples. Check how long the returns have lasted and what the price implies before drawing conclusions.

This page lists the stocks that pass a set of rules. It is not a recommendation to buy or sell any of them, and past results of a strategy say nothing certain about future returns.