Yahoo Finance The Return Trends At Kenmare Resources (LON:KMR) Look Promising
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. This shows us that it's a compounding machine, able to continually reinvest its earnings back into the business and generate higher returns. With that in mind, we've noticed some promising trends at Kenmare Resources (LON:KMR) so let's look a bit deeper.
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. Analysts use this formula to calculate it for Kenmare Resources:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.16 = US$168m ÷ (US$1.1b - US$69m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2022).
So, Kenmare Resources has an ROCE of 16%. In absolute terms, that's a satisfactory return, but compared to the Metals and Mining industry average of 11% it's much better.
Check out our latest analysis for Kenmare Resources
In the above chart we have measured Kenmare Resources' prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you'd like, you can check out the forecasts from the analysts covering Kenmare Resources here for free.
What Does the ROCE Trend For Kenmare Resources Tell Us?
Kenmare Resources' ROCE growth is quite impressive. The figures show that over the last five years, ROCE has grown 730% 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. The company is doing well in that sense, and it's worth investigating what the management team has planned for long term growth prospects.
The Key Takeaway
As discussed above, Kenmare Resources appears to be getting more proficient at generating returns since capital employed has remained flat but earnings (before interest and tax) are up. And with a respectable 56% awarded to those who held the stock over the last five years, you could argue that these developments are starting to get the attention they deserve. So given the stock has proven it has promising trends, it's worth researching the company further to see if these trends are likely to persist.
One more thing: We've identified 2 warning signs with Kenmare Resources (at least 1 which is a bit concerning) , and understanding them would certainly be useful.
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