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Did you know there are some financial metrics that can provide clues of a potential multi-bagger? In a perfect world, we'd like to see a company investing more capital into its business and ideally the returns earned from that capital are also increasing. If you see this, it typically means it's a company with a great business model and plenty of profitable reinvestment opportunities. With that in mind, the ROCE of Marco Holdings Berhad (KLSE:MARCO) looks decent, right now, so lets see what the trend of returns can tell us.
Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What Is It?
Just to clarify if you're unsure, ROCE is a metric for evaluating how much pre-tax income (in percentage terms) a company earns on the capital invested in its business. The formula for this calculation on Marco Holdings Berhad is:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.12 = RM29m ÷ (RM264m - RM25m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2022).
Thus, Marco Holdings Berhad has an ROCE of 12%. In absolute terms, that's a satisfactory return, but compared to the Retail Distributors industry average of 8.2% it's much better.
See our latest analysis for Marco Holdings Berhad
While the past is not representative of the future, it can be helpful to know how a company has performed historically, which is why we have this chart above. If you want to delve into the historical earnings, revenue and cash flow of Marco Holdings Berhad, check out these free graphs here.
So How Is Marco Holdings Berhad's ROCE Trending?
While the returns on capital are good, they haven't moved much. The company has consistently earned 12% for the last five years, and the capital employed within the business has risen 37% in that time. Since 12% is a moderate ROCE though, it's good to see a business can continue to reinvest at these decent rates of return. Over long periods of time, returns like these might not be too exciting, but with consistency they can pay off in terms of share price returns.
The Bottom Line
In the end, Marco Holdings Berhad has proven its ability to adequately reinvest capital at good rates of return. And given the stock has only risen 20% over the last five years, we'd suspect the market is beginning to recognize these trends. So because of the trends we're seeing, we'd recommend looking further into this stock to see if it has the makings of a multi-bagger.
Like most companies, Marco Holdings Berhad does come with some risks, and we've found 2 warning signs that you should be aware of.