Returns Are Gaining Momentum At Ten Lifestyle Group (LON:TENG)

If you're looking for a multi-bagger, there's a few things to keep an eye out 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 looked at Ten Lifestyle Group (LON:TENG) and its trend of ROCE, we really liked what we saw.

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

If you haven't worked with ROCE before, it measures the 'return' (pre-tax profit) a company generates from capital employed in its business. To calculate this metric for Ten Lifestyle Group, this is the formula:

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

0.089 = UK£2.9m ÷ (UK£56m - UK£24m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to February 2025).

Thus, Ten Lifestyle Group has an ROCE of 8.9%. On its own that's a low return on capital but it's in line with the industry's average returns of 9.5%.

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In the above chart we have measured Ten Lifestyle Group's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you're interested, you can view the analysts predictions in our free analyst report for Ten Lifestyle Group .

The Trend Of ROCE

Ten Lifestyle Group has recently broken into profitability so their prior investments seem to be paying off. Shareholders would no doubt be pleased with this because the business was loss-making five years ago but is is now generating 8.9% on its capital. Not only that, but the company is utilizing 53% more capital than before, but that's to be expected from a company trying to break into profitability. This can indicate that there's plenty of opportunities to invest capital internally and at ever higher rates, both common traits of a multi-bagger.

Another thing to note, Ten Lifestyle Group has a high ratio of current liabilities to total assets of 42%. This effectively means that suppliers (or short-term creditors) are funding a large portion of the business, so just be aware that this can introduce some elements of risk. Ideally we'd like to see this reduce as that would mean fewer obligations bearing risks.

The Bottom Line

To the delight of most shareholders, Ten Lifestyle Group has now broken into profitability. And since the stock has fallen 25% over the last five years, there might be an opportunity here. That being the case, research into the company's current valuation metrics and future prospects seems fitting.

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