Quality Investor

Quality & anti-fragile scorecards

Every scored company, ranked by gross profitability (the Novy-Marx primary signal), with the anti-fragile balance-sheet checklist and a Trajectory rating — the direction of each business’s fundamentals over its own multi-year, point-in-time SEC filing history. Click a Trajectory badge for the per-metric breakdown, or a ticker for the full scorecard.

Trajectory is a monitoring diagnostic of business direction, not a prediction of returns.

We publish our track record and our failures

A live portfolio follows these rankings. Every decision goes into a log that only grows. Ideas that failed stay on the page next to the ones that worked.

Track record

2.2 months

Downside capture

0.50

Ideas tested

0

Ideas rejected

0

Too early to judge. This record is too short for statistical significance.

See the evidenceSee what we tested and what failed

Market context

CALMmonitoring only

Broad market regime at the time of this reading — evidence for the thesis-broken vs market-panic call. A stressed market makes a holding-level drawdown more likely to be systematic (panic) than idiosyncratic (broken). Never a selection, sizing, or trade signal.

indicatorvaluereading
SPY drawdown from peak-1.2%near highs
SPY trailing 3-month return3.3%
credit stress (HYG/LQD z-score)+0.6credit markets calm
S&P 500 valuation (Shiller CAPE)40.999th percentile since 1871EXPENSIVEexpensive — above 25

Hyperscaler capex

COMFORTABLEmonitoring only

Combined capex and operating cash flow across 5 hyperscalers — an AI-infrastructure-cycle read. Combined OCF approaching or falling below combined capex signals the buildout turning free-cash-flow-negative system-wide. Never a selection, sizing, or trade signal.

total capex
$464.57B
total OCF
$634.94B
FCF margin
26.8%
capex YoY
79.7%
companycapexOCFFY end
AMZN$131.82B$139.51B2025-12-31
MSFT$115.95B$182.94B2026-06-30
GOOGL$91.45B$164.71B2025-12-31
META$69.69B$115.80B2025-12-31
ORCL$55.66B$31.98B2026-05-31

As-of 2026-10-30 · 441 companies · ranked by gross profitability.