Taiga Building Products (TSE:TBL) Is Reinvesting To Multiply In Value

If we want to find a stock that could multiply over the long term, what are the underlying trends we should look for? 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. Ultimately, this demonstrates that it's a business that is reinvesting profits at increasing rates of return. So, when we ran our eye over Taiga Building Products' (TSE:TBL) trend of ROCE, we really liked what we saw.

Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What Is It?

For those who don't know, ROCE is a measure of a company's yearly pre-tax profit (its return), relative to the capital employed in the business. The formula for this calculation on Taiga Building Products is:

Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)

0.27 = CA$128m ÷ (CA$618m - CA$153m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2022).

Therefore, Taiga Building Products has an ROCE of 27%. In absolute terms that's a great return and it's even better than the Trade Distributors industry average of 20%.

See our latest analysis for Taiga Building Products

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 Taiga Building Products, check out these free graphs here.

The Trend Of ROCE

It's hard not to be impressed by Taiga Building Products' returns on capital. The company has employed 245% more capital in the last five years, and the returns on that capital have remained stable at 27%. With returns that high, it's great that the business can continually reinvest its money at such appealing rates of return. If Taiga Building Products can keep this up, we'd be very optimistic about its future.

On a side note, Taiga Building Products has done well to reduce current liabilities to 25% of total assets over the last five years. Effectively suppliers now fund less of the business, which can lower some elements of risk.

The Bottom Line On Taiga Building Products' ROCE

In short, we'd argue Taiga Building Products has the makings of a multi-bagger since its been able to compound its capital at very profitable rates of return. And since the stock has risen strongly over the last five years, it appears the market might expect this trend to continue. So even though the stock might be more "expensive" than it was before, we think the strong fundamentals warrant this stock for further research.

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