Investors Will Want Dynasty Fine Wines Group's (HKG:828) Growth In ROCE To Persist

There are a few key trends to look for if we want to identify the next multi-bagger. Amongst other things, we'll want to see two things; firstly, a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an expansion in the company's amount of capital employed. Ultimately, this demonstrates that it's a business that is reinvesting profits at increasing rates of return. Speaking of which, we noticed some great changes in Dynasty Fine Wines Group's (HKG:828) returns on capital, so let's have a look.

Understanding Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)

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. To calculate this metric for Dynasty Fine Wines Group, this is the formula:

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

0.028 = HK$6.8m ÷ (HK$596m - HK$357m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2021).

So, Dynasty Fine Wines Group has an ROCE of 2.8%. In absolute terms, that's a low return and it also under-performs the Beverage industry average of 10%.

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What Does the ROCE Trend For Dynasty Fine Wines Group Tell Us?

Like most people, we're pleased that Dynasty Fine Wines Group is now generating some pretax earnings. While the business is profitable now, it used to be incurring losses on invested capital five years ago. Additionally, the business is utilizing 46% less capital than it was five years ago, and taken at face value, that can mean the company needs less funds at work to get a return. Dynasty Fine Wines Group could be selling under-performing assets since the ROCE is improving.

On a separate but related note, it's important to know that Dynasty Fine Wines Group has a current liabilities to total assets ratio of 60%, which we'd consider pretty high. This can bring about some risks because the company is basically operating with a rather large reliance on its suppliers or other sorts of short-term creditors. Ideally we'd like to see this reduce as that would mean fewer obligations bearing risks.

In Conclusion...

In the end, Dynasty Fine Wines Group has proven it's capital allocation skills are good with those higher returns from less amount of capital. Given the stock has declined 36% in the last year, this could be a good investment if the valuation and other metrics are also appealing. So researching this company further and determining whether or not these trends will continue seems justified.

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