The legacy v2 scores, and why they are still here

What this card is

The Proprietary Scores card on a company page shows a Composite plus four components — Quality, Value, Growth and Safety, each 0 to 100. It is the original v2 scoring pipeline, and it predates PAS.

Both use the same bands: 80-100 excellent, 60-79 good, 40-59 fair, 0-39 weak.

How it differs from PAS

The important difference is not the pillar names, it is the comparison.

PAS z-scores every input within its GICS sector and country before scoring. The v2 composite does not work that way, which means its numbers carry sector effects: capital-intensive industries score differently from asset-light ones for reasons that are about the industry rather than the company.

That is why PAS carries the headline. A score that ranks sectors when you asked it to rank companies is answering a different question than the one on screen.

Why it has not been deleted

Two honest reasons.

The first is continuity: people who have used these numbers for a while have a feel for them, and swapping the meaning of a familiar 0-100 figure overnight is its own kind of dishonesty.

The second is that the four component names are genuinely useful shorthand. "Quality 82, Value 31" describes a company in five words in a way the sector-neutral pillars, which are more correct, do not quite manage at a glance.

Treat the v2 card as a rough second opinion. When it and PAS disagree sharply, the usual explanation is sector: the v2 number is being pulled by something the sector-neutral score has deliberately removed.