We Like These Underlying Return On Capital Trends At Endymed (TLV:ENDY)

What trends should we look for it we want to identify stocks that can multiply in value over the long term? 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. If you see this, it typically means it's a company with a great business model and plenty of profitable reinvestment opportunities. So on that note, Endymed (TLV:ENDY) looks quite promising in regards to its trends of return on capital.

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. The formula for this calculation on Endymed is:

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

0.19 = US$3.1m ÷ (US$20m - US$4.0m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to March 2022).

So, Endymed has an ROCE of 19%. In absolute terms, that's a satisfactory return, but compared to the Medical Equipment industry average of 8.1% it's much better.

View our latest analysis for Endymed

Historical performance is a great place to start when researching a stock so above you can see the gauge for Endymed's ROCE against it's prior returns. If you're interested in investigating Endymed's past further, check out this free graph of past earnings, revenue and cash flow.

So How Is Endymed's ROCE Trending?

We're delighted to see that Endymed is reaping rewards from its investments and is now generating some pre-tax profits. Shareholders would no doubt be pleased with this because the business was loss-making five years ago but is is now generating 19% on its capital. And unsurprisingly, like most companies trying to break into the black, Endymed is utilizing 210% more capital than it was five years ago. This can tell us that the company has plenty of reinvestment opportunities that are able to generate higher returns.

In another part of our analysis, we noticed that the company's ratio of current liabilities to total assets decreased to 20%, which broadly means the business is relying less on its suppliers or short-term creditors to fund its operations. So shareholders would be pleased that the growth in returns has mostly come from underlying business performance.

Our Take On Endymed's ROCE

To the delight of most shareholders, Endymed has now broken into profitability. Since the stock has only returned 35% to shareholders over the last five years, the promising fundamentals may not be recognized yet by investors. Given that, we'd look further into this stock in case it has more traits that could make it multiply in the long term.

Endymed does have some risks, we noticed 2 warning signs (and 1 which is potentially serious) we think you should know about.

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