Shareholders Would Enjoy A Repeat Of Radhika Jeweltech's (NSE:RADHIKAJWE) Recent Growth In Returns

If we want to find a potential multi-bagger, often there are underlying trends that can provide clues. 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. Put simply, these types of businesses are compounding machines, meaning they are continually reinvesting their earnings at ever-higher rates of return. So when we looked at the ROCE trend of Radhika Jeweltech (NSE:RADHIKAJWE) we really liked what we saw.

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What Is Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)?

For those that aren't sure what ROCE is, it measures the amount of pre-tax profits a company can generate from the capital employed in its business. To calculate this metric for Radhika Jeweltech, this is the formula:

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

0.28 = ₹841m ÷ (₹3.6b - ₹604m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2024).

Therefore, Radhika Jeweltech has an ROCE of 28%. In absolute terms that's a great return and it's even better than the Specialty Retail industry average of 16%.

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While the past is not representative of the future, it can be helpful to know how a company has performed historically, which is why we have this chart above. If you'd like to look at how Radhika Jeweltech has performed in the past in other metrics, you can view this free graph of Radhika Jeweltech's past earnings, revenue and cash flow.

How Are Returns Trending?

The trends we've noticed at Radhika Jeweltech are quite reassuring. Over the last five years, returns on capital employed have risen substantially to 28%. The amount of capital employed has increased too, by 76%. The increasing returns on a growing amount of capital is common amongst multi-baggers and that's why we're impressed.

For the record though, there was a noticeable increase in the company's current liabilities over the period, so we would attribute some of the ROCE growth to that. Essentially the business now has suppliers or short-term creditors funding about 17% of its operations, which isn't ideal. It's worth keeping an eye on this because as the percentage of current liabilities to total assets increases, some aspects of risk also increase.

What We Can Learn From Radhika Jeweltech's ROCE

In summary, it's great to see that Radhika Jeweltech can compound returns by consistently reinvesting capital at increasing rates of return, because these are some of the key ingredients of those highly sought after multi-baggers. And with a respectable 46% awarded to those who held the stock over the last year, you could argue that these developments are starting to get the attention they deserve. So given the stock has proven it has promising trends, it's worth researching the company further to see if these trends are likely to persist.

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