Yahoo Finance Is Sylvania Platinum Limited's(LON:SLP) Recent Stock Performance Tethered To Its Strong Fundamentals?
Sylvania Platinum (LON:SLP) has had a great run on the share market with its stock up by a significant 20% over the last 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. Specifically, we decided to study Sylvania Platinum's ROE in this article.
Return on Equity or ROE is a test of how effectively a company is growing its value and managing investors’ money. In simpler terms, it measures the profitability of a company in relation to shareholder's equity.
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How Do You Calculate Return On Equity?
The formula for ROE is:
Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity
So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Sylvania Platinum is:
41% = US$100m ÷ US$244m (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2021).
The 'return' is the yearly profit. One way to conceptualize this is that for each £1 of shareholders' capital it has, the company made £0.41 in profit.
What Is The Relationship Between ROE And Earnings Growth?
We have already established that ROE serves as an efficient profit-generating gauge for a company's future earnings. Depending on how much of these profits the company reinvests or "retains", and how effectively it does so, we are then able to assess a company’s earnings growth potential. 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.
Sylvania Platinum's Earnings Growth And 41% ROE
First thing first, we like that Sylvania Platinum has an impressive ROE. Additionally, the company's ROE is higher compared to the industry average of 17% which is quite remarkable. So, the substantial 55% net income growth seen by Sylvania Platinum over the past five years isn't overly surprising.
As a next step, we compared Sylvania Platinum's net income growth with the industry, and pleasingly, we found that the growth seen by the company is higher than the average industry growth of 21%.
Earnings growth is a huge factor in stock valuation. 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. One good indicator of expected earnings growth is the P/E ratio which determines the price the market is willing to pay for a stock based on its earnings prospects. So, you may want to check if Sylvania Platinum is trading on a high P/E or a low P/E, relative to its industry.
Is Sylvania Platinum Making Efficient Use Of Its Profits?
Sylvania Platinum's three-year median payout ratio to shareholders is 11%, which is quite low. This implies that the company is retaining 89% of its profits. So it looks like Sylvania Platinum is reinvesting profits heavily to grow its business, which shows in its earnings growth.
Moreover, Sylvania Platinum is determined to keep sharing its profits with shareholders which we infer from its long history of three years of paying a dividend. Upon studying the latest analysts' consensus data, we found that the company's future payout ratio is expected to rise to 51% over the next three years.
Conclusion
Overall, we are quite pleased with Sylvania Platinum's performance. Specifically, we like that the company is reinvesting a huge chunk of its profits at a high rate of return. This of course has caused the company to see substantial growth in its earnings. With that said, on studying the latest analyst forecasts, we found that while the company has seen growth in its past earnings, analysts expect its future earnings to shrink. To know more about the company's future earnings growth forecasts take a look at this free report on analyst forecasts for the company to find out more.
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