Hexing Electrical Co.,Ltd.'s (SHSE:603556) Stock Has Been Sliding But Fundamentals Look Strong: Is The Market Wrong?

With its stock down 9.8% over the past week, it is easy to disregard Hexing ElectricalLtd (SHSE:603556). However, a closer look at its sound financials might cause you to think again. Given that fundamentals usually drive long-term market outcomes, the company is worth looking at. Specifically, we decided to study Hexing ElectricalLtd's ROE in this article.

Return on equity or ROE is an important factor to be considered by a shareholder because it tells them how effectively their capital is being reinvested. In simpler terms, it measures the profitability of a company in relation to shareholder's equity.

Check out our latest analysis for Hexing ElectricalLtd

How Do You 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 Hexing ElectricalLtd is:

16% = CN¥1.1b ÷ CN¥6.6b (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2024).

The 'return' is the income the business earned over the last year. One way to conceptualize this is that for each CN¥1 of shareholders' capital it has, the company made CN¥0.16 in profit.

What Is The Relationship Between ROE And Earnings Growth?

Thus far, we have learned that ROE measures how efficiently a company is generating its profits. 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 all else is equal, companies that have both a higher return on equity and higher profit retention are usually the ones that have a higher growth rate when compared to companies that don't have the same features.

Hexing ElectricalLtd's Earnings Growth And 16% ROE

To start with, Hexing ElectricalLtd's ROE looks acceptable. On comparing with the average industry ROE of 6.4% the company's ROE looks pretty remarkable. This certainly adds some context to Hexing ElectricalLtd's decent 20% net income growth seen over the past five years.

We then compared Hexing ElectricalLtd's net income growth with the industry and we're pleased to see that the company's growth figure is higher when compared with the industry which has a growth rate of 4.8% in the same 5-year period.

Earnings growth is a huge factor in stock valuation. It’s important for an investor to know whether the market has priced in the company's expected earnings growth (or decline). Doing so will help them establish if the stock's future looks promising or ominous. Has the market priced in the future outlook for 603556? You can find out in our latest intrinsic value infographic research report.

Is Hexing ElectricalLtd Efficiently Re-investing Its Profits?

Hexing ElectricalLtd has a healthy combination of a moderate three-year median payout ratio of 49% (or a retention ratio of 51%) and a respectable amount of growth in earnings as we saw above, meaning that the company has been making efficient use of its profits.

Moreover, Hexing ElectricalLtd is determined to keep sharing its profits with shareholders which we infer from its long history of seven years of paying a dividend. Upon studying the latest analysts' consensus data, we found that the company is expected to keep paying out approximately 52% of its profits over the next three years. As a result, Hexing ElectricalLtd's ROE is not expected to change by much either, which we inferred from the analyst estimate of 19% for future ROE.

Summary

In total, we are pretty happy with Hexing ElectricalLtd'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. The latest industry analyst forecasts show that the company is expected to maintain its current growth rate. To know more about the latest analysts predictions for the company, check out this visualization of analyst forecasts for the company.

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