Warren Buffett Quality Stock Screen — UK
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 the UK 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 — UK: top stocks by market cap
41 UK stocks match this screen. Top 30 by market cap, data as of 13 Nov 2026.
| # | Company | Ticker | Sector | Mkt Cap | P/E | Div Yield | 1Y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rio Tinto Group | RIOLSE | Basic Materials | €122.5B | 11.6 | 5.46% | +19.8% |
| 2 | 3i Group Ord | IIILSE | Financial Services | €32.1B | 4.6 | — | -37.7% |
| 3 | Trip.com Group Limited | 0I50LSE | Consumer Cyclical | €26.0B | 12.7 | — | -39.8% |
| 4 | Fresnillo plc | FRESLSE | Basic Materials | €21.4B | 10.8 | 4.44% | +3.4% |
| 5 | Konami Group Corporation | KNMLSE | Communication Services | €21.1B | 20.8 | 0.86% | +18.2% |
| 6 | Scottish Mortgage Ord | SMTLSE | Financial Services | €18.3B | 3.4 | — | +34.1% |
| 7 | Endeavour Mining plc | EDVLSE | Basic Materials | €10.9B | 16.3 | 3.48% | +14.8% |
| 8 | Smiths Group plc | SMINLSE | Industrials | €8.8B | 54.9 | 1.79% | +8.8% |
| 9 | Pershing Square Holdings, Ltd. | PSHLSE | Financial Services | €7.8B | — | 1.39% | — |
| 10 | Polar Capital Technology Ord | PCTLSE | Financial Services | €7.5B | 1.7 | — | +21.3% |
| 11 | Games Workshop Group PLC | GAWLSE | Consumer Cyclical | €6.7B | 26.9 | 2.46% | +8.2% |
| 12 | Rightmove plc | RMVLSE | Communication Services | €5.0B | 20.1 | 1.91% | -14.6% |
| 13 | Greatland Resources Limited | GGPLSE | Basic Materials | €4.1B | 8.2 | 0.00% | +26.6% |
| 14 | JPMorgan Global Growth & Income Ord | JGGILSE | Financial Services | €3.9B | 6.7 | — | +4.3% |
| 15 | IG Group Holdings plc | IGGLSE | Financial Services | €3.8B | 9.2 | 4.40% | -13.1% |
| 16 | City of London Ord | CTYLSE | Financial Services | €3.7B | 5.9 | — | +15.2% |
| 17 | Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT | TEMLSE | Financial Services | €3.2B | 4.0 | — | +26.3% |
| 18 | Plus500 Ltd. | PLUSLSE | Financial Services | €2.9B | 11.6 | 2.11% | +13.4% |
| 19 | Monks Ord | MNKSLSE | Financial Services | €2.8B | 4.5 | — | +5.0% |
| 20 | Hochschild Mining plc | HOCLSE | Basic Materials | €2.8B | 10.9 | 1.41% | +33.5% |
| 21 | Murray International Ord | MYILSE | Financial Services | €2.7B | 5.0 | — | +21.4% |
| 22 | Pan African Resources PLC | PAFLSE | Basic Materials | €2.7B | 8.4 | 1.93% | +13.9% |
| 23 | AJ Bell plc | AJBLSE | Financial Services | €2.7B | 19.0 | 2.56% | +5.0% |
| 24 | HUTCHMED (China) Limited | HCMLSE | Healthcare | €2.3B | 111.0 | 0.00% | -5.9% |
| 25 | CMC Markets Plc | CMCXLSE | Financial Services | €2.3B | 25.3 | 1.95% | +224.8% |
| 26 | Law Debenture Corporation Ord | LWDBLSE | Financial Services | €1.9B | 15.2 | — | +14.9% |
| 27 | BlackRock World Mining Trust Ord | BRWMLSE | Financial Services | €1.9B | 2.2 | — | +27.2% |
| 28 | Genus plc | GNSLSE | Healthcare | €1.8B | 5.6 | 1.38% | -7.7% |
| 29 | Temple Bar Ord | TMPLLSE | Financial Services | €1.6B | 6.0 | — | +19.5% |
| 30 | Bankers Ord | BNKRLSE | Financial Services | €1.6B | 5.0 | — | +11.2% |
The same rules on every market the screener covers: the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and more. Free, no account needed.
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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.