Investors Shouldn't Be Too Comfortable With Beijing Centergate Technologies (holding)'s (SZSE:000931) Earnings

Beijing Centergate Technologies (holding) Co., Ltd.'s (SZSE:000931) robust earnings report didn't manage to move the market for its stock. We did some digging, and we found some concerning factors in the details.

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The Impact Of Unusual Items On Profit

To properly understand Beijing Centergate Technologies (holding)'s profit results, we need to consider the CN¥19m gain attributed to unusual items. While it's always nice to have higher profit, a large contribution from unusual items sometimes dampens our enthusiasm. We ran the numbers on most publicly listed companies worldwide, and it's very common for unusual items to be once-off in nature. And that's as you'd expect, given these boosts are described as 'unusual'. Assuming those unusual items don't show up again in the current year, we'd thus expect profit to be weaker next year (in the absence of business growth, that is).

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Our Take On Beijing Centergate Technologies (holding)'s Profit Performance

We'd posit that Beijing Centergate Technologies (holding)'s statutory earnings aren't a clean read on ongoing productivity, due to the large unusual item. Therefore, it seems possible to us that Beijing Centergate Technologies (holding)'s true underlying earnings power is actually less than its statutory profit. On the bright side, the company showed enough improvement to book a profit this year, after losing money last year. The goal of this article has been to assess how well we can rely on the statutory earnings to reflect the company's potential, but there is plenty more to consider. With this in mind, we wouldn't consider investing in a stock unless we had a thorough understanding of the risks. Every company has risks, and we've spotted 1 warning sign for Beijing Centergate Technologies (holding) you should know about.

This note has only looked at a single factor that sheds light on the nature of Beijing Centergate Technologies (holding)'s profit. But there are plenty of other ways to inform your opinion of a company. Some people consider a high return on equity to be a good sign of a quality business. So you may wish to see this free collection of companies boasting high return on equity, or this list of stocks with high insider ownership.

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