Yahoo Finance KAP Industrial Holdings (JSE:KAP) Is Looking To Continue Growing Its Returns On Capital
There are a few key trends to look for if we want to identify the next multi-bagger. Ideally, a business will show two trends; firstly a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an increasing amount of capital employed. If you see this, it typically means it's a company with a great business model and plenty of profitable reinvestment opportunities. So when we looked at KAP Industrial Holdings (JSE:KAP) and its trend of ROCE, we really liked what we saw.
Understanding Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)
If you haven't worked with ROCE before, it measures the 'return' (pre-tax profit) a company generates from capital employed in its business. To calculate this metric for KAP Industrial Holdings, this is the formula:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.13 = R2.8b ÷ (R30b - R8.0b) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2022).
Thus, KAP Industrial Holdings has an ROCE of 13%. By itself that's a normal return on capital and it's in line with the industry's average returns of 13%.
See our latest analysis for KAP Industrial Holdings
In the above chart we have measured KAP Industrial Holdings' prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you're interested, you can view the analysts predictions in our free report on analyst forecasts for the company.
What Can We Tell From KAP Industrial Holdings' ROCE Trend?
KAP Industrial Holdings' ROCE growth is quite impressive. The figures show that over the last five years, ROCE has grown 23% whilst employing roughly the same amount of capital. So our take on this is that the business has increased efficiencies to generate these higher returns, all the while not needing to make any additional investments. It's worth looking deeper into this though because while it's great that the business is more efficient, it might also mean that going forward the areas to invest internally for the organic growth are lacking.
What We Can Learn From KAP Industrial Holdings' ROCE
To sum it up, KAP Industrial Holdings is collecting higher returns from the same amount of capital, and that's impressive. And since the stock has fallen 33% over the last five years, there might be an opportunity here. With that in mind, we believe the promising trends warrant this stock for further investigation.
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