Does Wintrust Financial Corporation Depositary Shares, Each Representing a 1/1,000th Interest in a Share of 7.875% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred StocK have an economic moat?
Not clearly
Wintrust Financial Corporation Depositary Shares, Each Representing a 1/1,000th Interest in a Share of 7.875% Fixed-Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Preferred StocK earns 0.0% a year on the money invested in it, a return competitors could match.
The numbers behind it
Return on invested capital, average of recent years0.0%
Return on invested capital, latest year–
Gross margin–Share of each sale left after production costs
Net margin30.2%
How we decide
A moat shows up in the numbers as high returns that last. We call it likely when the average return on invested capital over recent years is at least 15% and the gross margin at least 40%, and possible from 10%. The numbers can't show where a moat comes from (brand, network, patents), only that one seems to exist.
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Data as of Nov 13, 2026.