Is Piper Sandler Companies (PIPR) a Warren Buffett Stock?
Partial Buffett fit - meets 7/9 key criteria, but with reservations.
7/9 criteria passed
+6 sector-quality lift. Top-quintile within its sector on 3 of 5 quality metrics. Raw pillar score 61 → lifted to 67 before grade derivation.
Capped from B to C. Share count growing by more than 3%/year over 5y - dilutes future per-share value; EPS dropped more than 50% at the worst point in the last 5 years - cyclical or fragile What are deal-breaker caps?
Warren Buffett's Criteria, Applied to PIPR
ROIC ≥ 15%
Gross margin ≥ 40%
Owner earnings yield ≥ 5%
5y profitable
How PIPR Scores on Other Strategies
Live Financial Snapshot
Market cap
$5.4B
P/E (TTM)
19.0x
ROIC (TTM)
22.43%
Gross margin
97.34%
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Educational tool, not investment advice. Scores are computed from publicly-available financial data against published investing-strategy criteria. We do not claim that Warren Buffett personally owns or recommends PIPR.