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SGL Carbon's (ETR:SGL) stock is up by a considerable 18% over the past month. 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. Particularly, we will be paying attention to SGL Carbon's ROE today.
ROE or return on equity is a useful tool to assess how effectively a company can generate returns on the investment it received from its shareholders. 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 SGL Carbon is:
11% = €69m ÷ €646m (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2024).
The 'return' is the yearly profit. Another way to think of that is that for every €1 worth of equity, the company was able to earn €0.11 in profit.
What Has ROE Got To Do With Earnings Growth?
So far, we've learned that ROE is a measure of a company's profitability. 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 everything else remains unchanged, the higher the ROE and profit retention, the higher the growth rate of a company compared to companies that don't necessarily bear these characteristics.
A Side By Side comparison of SGL Carbon's Earnings Growth And 11% ROE
At first glance, SGL Carbon seems to have a decent ROE. Even so, when compared with the average industry ROE of 16%, we aren't very excited. Still, we can see that SGL Carbon has seen a remarkable net income growth of 52% over the past five years. We reckon that there could be other factors at play here. Such as - high earnings retention or an efficient management in place. However, not to forget, the company does have a decent ROE to begin with, just that it is lower than the industry average. So this also does lend some color to the high earnings growth seen by the company.
Next, on comparing SGL Carbon's net income growth with the industry, we found that the company's reported growth is similar to the industry average growth rate of 50% over the last few years.