Did you know there are some financial metrics that can provide clues of a potential multi-bagger? 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. Basically this means that a company has profitable initiatives that it can continue to reinvest in, which is a trait of a compounding machine. So when we looked at Sampann Utpadan India (NSE:SAMPANN) and its trend of ROCE, we really liked what we saw.
Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What Is It?
Just to clarify if you're unsure, ROCE is a metric for evaluating how much pre-tax income (in percentage terms) a company earns on the capital invested in its business. Analysts use this formula to calculate it for Sampann Utpadan India:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.025 = ₹27m ÷ (₹1.3b - ₹174m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2025).
Therefore, Sampann Utpadan India has an ROCE of 2.5%. In absolute terms, that's a low return and it also under-performs the Chemicals industry average of 12%.
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Historical performance is a great place to start when researching a stock so above you can see the gauge for Sampann Utpadan India's ROCE against it's prior returns. If you're interested in investigating Sampann Utpadan India's past further, check out this free graph covering Sampann Utpadan India's past earnings, revenue and cash flow.
The Trend Of ROCE
We're delighted to see that Sampann Utpadan India 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 2.5% on its capital. Not only that, but the company is utilizing 39% more capital than before, but that's to be expected from a company trying to break into profitability. This can tell us that the company has plenty of reinvestment opportunities that are able to generate higher returns.
In Conclusion...
To the delight of most shareholders, Sampann Utpadan India has now broken into profitability. Since the stock has returned a staggering 1,340% to shareholders over the last five years, it looks like investors are recognizing these changes. In light of that, we think it's worth looking further into this stock because if Sampann Utpadan India can keep these trends up, it could have a bright future ahead.
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