Declining Stock and Decent Financials: Is The Market Wrong About Sansera Engineering Limited (NSE:SANSERA)?

With its stock down 13% over the past three months, it is easy to disregard Sansera Engineering (NSE:SANSERA). However, stock prices are usually driven by a company’s financials over the long term, which in this case look pretty respectable. Specifically, we decided to study Sansera Engineering'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. Put another way, it reveals the company's success at turning shareholder investments into profits.

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How Do You Calculate Return On Equity?

Return on equity can be calculated by using the formula:

Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity

So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Sansera Engineering is:

14% = ₹2.0b ÷ ₹15b (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2024).

The 'return' is the profit over the last twelve months. So, this means that for every ₹1 of its shareholder's investments, the company generates a profit of ₹0.14.

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Why Is ROE Important For Earnings Growth?

Thus far, we have learned that ROE measures how efficiently a company is generating its profits. We now need to evaluate how much profit the company reinvests or "retains" for future growth which then gives us an idea about the growth potential of the company. Generally speaking, other things being equal, firms with a high return on equity and profit retention, have a higher growth rate than firms that don’t share these attributes.

A Side By Side comparison of Sansera Engineering's Earnings Growth And 14% ROE

At first glance, Sansera Engineering's ROE doesn't look very promising. However, given that the company's ROE is similar to the average industry ROE of 12%, we may spare it some thought. On the other hand, Sansera Engineering reported a moderate 15% net income growth over the past five years. Considering the moderately low ROE, it is quite possible that there might be some other aspects that are positively influencing the company's earnings growth. For instance, the company has a low payout ratio or is being managed efficiently.

As a next step, we compared Sansera Engineering's net income growth with the industry and were disappointed to see that the company's growth is lower than the industry average growth of 28% in the same period.

The basis for attaching value to a company is, to a great extent, tied to its earnings growth. 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. Is Sansera Engineering fairly valued compared to other companies? These 3 valuation measures might help you decide.

Is Sansera Engineering Efficiently Re-investing Its Profits?

Sansera Engineering has a low three-year median payout ratio of 8.4%, meaning that the company retains the remaining 92% of its profits. This suggests that the management is reinvesting most of the profits to grow the business.

Additionally, Sansera Engineering has paid dividends over a period of three years which means that the company is pretty serious about sharing its profits with shareholders. Based on the latest analysts' estimates, we found that the company's future payout ratio over the next three years is expected to hold steady at 8.3%. As a result, Sansera Engineering's ROE is not expected to change by much either, which we inferred from the analyst estimate of 13% for future ROE.

Summary

In total, it does look like Sansera Engineering has some positive aspects to its business. Specifically, its fairly high earnings growth number, which no doubt was backed by the company's high earnings retention. Still, the low ROE means that all that reinvestment is not reaping a lot of benefit to the investors. With that said, the latest industry analyst forecasts reveal that the company's earnings are expected to accelerate. 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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