Metrics
What numbers consultants lead with.
Every slide that foregrounds a metric — 7,750 in total — classified into families by what's being measured. Drill in to see who uses each family, where in the narrative, and the real examples.
Metric families
7,750 metric-led slides1266
Survey & sentiment
What people said — respondents, priorities, sentiment, NPS.
16.3%
1110
Market size & value
Scale of the pool — TAM, GMV, AUM, deal value, investment, funding.
14.3%
709
Cost & savings
What's spent or saved — costs, spend, savings, efficiency, abatement.
9.1%
541
Share & penetration
Piece of the pie — market share, adoption, penetration, uptake.
7.0%
491
Growth rate
Speed of change — CAGR, YoY, growth rate.
6.3%
261
Rates & ratios
Other rates — retention, conversion, representation, distress.
3.4%
324
Employment & headcount
People at work — employees, FTEs, productivity, jobs.
4.2%
226
Indices & scores
Composite indicators — confidence indices, rankings, ratings.
2.9%
218
Margin & return
Economic quality — margins, ROI/ROE/ROIC, TSR, profit.
2.8%
212
Environment & emissions
Green metrics — GHG, emissions, hydrogen, renewables.
2.7%
187
Volume & counts
Raw counts — number of X, transactions, deals.
2.4%
141
Revenue & sales
Top line — revenue, sales, GVA.
1.8%
76
Macro indicators
Economy-wide signals — inflation, unemployment, PMI.
1.0%
23
Valuation
Asset worth — present value, pre-money, exit value.
0.3%
1965
Other
Domain-specific or uncategorized long-tail.
25.4%
Filtered by margin_return
· function benchmark_peers
· clear
Where in the narrative
Number shape
| percent | 122 |
| plain | 43 |
| multiplier | 33 |
| money | 20 |
18 examples
17
Bigger isn't always more profitable
“Bigger isn't always more profitable”
7.1%
Grocery retail margins in Europe have historically been lower than other industries, averaging 7.1% EBITDA (2009-23)
9.2%
Performance differs significantly across grocers with average EBITDA margins varying from 4.8% to 9.2% between 2015-23
-0.6pp
EBITDA margin of super/ hypermarkets (-0.6pp) shows negative momentum vs discounters (+0.2pp)
“Skewed by Lidl. Margins range 6.1% - 8.3%”
22.1x
US firms are priced at a premium compared to CDAX firms, most prominent in Information Technology and Industrials
“A comparison of forward EV/EBITDA trading multiples of US (S&P500) and German (CDAX) firms at the industry level reveals that US trading premia are highest in I…”
23,7x
Prices paid in European M&A transactions imply premia to trading prices in the healthcare and technology industry
“The highest prices were paid in Healthcare and Information Technology, with transaction multiples above the range of trading multiples.”
10.1x
In a one-year comparison, forward multiples show the highest recovery in Chems & Pharma and Transportation
“Forward EV/EBITDA multiples in the industries Chems & Pharma and Transportation & Logistics showed notable increases compared to the previous year.”
20.4x vs 8.3x
US firms are priced at a premium compared to CDAX firms, most prominent in Information Technology
“A comparison of forward EV/EBITDA trading multiples of US (S&P500) and German (CDAX) firms at the industry level reveals that US trading premia are highest in I…”
16.2x
Over the last year, price tags in European M&A transactions mostly imply discounts to LTM trading pricing levels
“In most industries, prices paid imply a discount to LTM European trading pricing levels. This is particularly evident in the Industrials and Consumer Products s…”
13.5 pp
Companies that manage to grow profitably during disruption extend their lead over competitors after disruptive events
“Long-term profitable growth companies have the ability to evolve, succeed and prosper through uncertainty and volatility. They constantly "adapt their ability t…”
10%
Finland’s profitability has historically been higher than the European average
16.1x vs 10.6x
Shareholders/analysts are reassessing the last mile claim
“Market expects Integrators to perform better than Posts, with significantly higher EV/EBIT multiples and price premium”
13.8%
The Speedster advantage 3. Highest profitability
“The fastest industrial companies (Speedsters) have achieved the highest operating margins and the strongest margin improvements from 2016 to 2021.”
146
Looking back: FMCG's value creation has lagged vs. other sectors since 2017
“No sector created more value than FMCG for the 10 years through 2016 ... but relative value creation has lagged since 2017, with FMCG dropping to #7 / 10”
350 bps
Long-run ‘winners’ have been more resilient and have withstood the Covid-19 shock significantly better than their FMCG peers
“Average TSR: 350 bps higher”
94%
04 Manage technology investments well — across the enterprise
“A health insurance company, for instance, is using live dashboards to track bots and automated activities running across their portfolio of businesses. The visi…”
62
Most emerging economies exhibit greater contested leadership among top firms.
2.6x
“Disability Inclusion Leaders (see box) realize marked business gains over other participants”