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Jardine Cycle & Carriage (SGX:C07) has had a great run on the share market with its stock up by a significant 10% over the last three months. Since the market usually pay for a company’s long-term fundamentals, we decided to study the company’s key performance indicators to see if they could be influencing the market. Specifically, we decided to study Jardine Cycle & Carriage's ROE in this article.
Return on equity or ROE is a key measure used to assess how efficiently a company's management is utilizing the company's capital. In other words, it is a profitability ratio which measures the rate of return on the capital provided by the company's shareholders.
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How To Calculate Return On Equity?
The formula for return on equity is:
Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity
So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Jardine Cycle & Carriage is:
15% = US$2.6b ÷ US$17b (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2024).
The 'return' is the yearly profit. One way to conceptualize this is that for each SGD1 of shareholders' capital it has, the company made SGD0.15 in profit.
What Has ROE Got To Do With Earnings Growth?
We have already established that ROE serves as an efficient profit-generating gauge for a company's future earnings. We now need to evaluate how much profit the company reinvests or "retains" for future growth which then gives us an idea about the growth potential of the company. Assuming all else is equal, companies that have both a higher return on equity and higher profit retention are usually the ones that have a higher growth rate when compared to companies that don't have the same features.
Jardine Cycle & Carriage's Earnings Growth And 15% ROE
To begin with, Jardine Cycle & Carriage seems to have a respectable ROE. Especially when compared to the industry average of 7.9% the company's ROE looks pretty impressive. This certainly adds some context to Jardine Cycle & Carriage's decent 11% net income growth seen over the past five years.
Next, on comparing with the industry net income growth, we found that Jardine Cycle & Carriage's reported growth was lower than the industry growth of 16% over the last few years, which is not something we like to see.
The basis for attaching value to a company is, to a great extent, tied to its earnings growth. The investor should try to establish if the expected growth or decline in earnings, whichever the case may be, is priced in. By doing so, they will have an idea if the stock is headed into clear blue waters or if swampy waters await. Has the market priced in the future outlook for C07? You can find out in our latest intrinsic value infographic research report.