Investors Should Be Encouraged By CULTI Milano's (BIT:CULT) Returns On Capital

If you're looking for a multi-bagger, there's a few things to keep an eye out for. Ideally, a business will show two trends; firstly a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an increasing amount of capital employed. Ultimately, this demonstrates that it's a business that is reinvesting profits at increasing rates of return. So when we looked at the ROCE trend of CULTI Milano (BIT:CULT) we really liked what we saw.

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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. To calculate this metric for CULTI Milano, this is the formula:

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

0.28 = €3.7m ÷ (€20m - €7.0m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2025).

So, CULTI Milano has an ROCE of 28%. In absolute terms that's a great return and it's even better than the Chemicals industry average of 14%.

See our latest analysis for CULTI Milano

In the above chart we have measured CULTI Milano's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you're interested, you can view the analysts predictions in our free analyst report for CULTI Milano .

What The Trend Of ROCE Can Tell Us

CULTI Milano is showing promise given that its ROCE is trending up and to the right. More specifically, while the company has kept capital employed relatively flat over the last five years, the ROCE has climbed 454% in that same time. So our take on this is that the business has increased efficiencies to generate these higher returns, all the while not needing to make any additional investments. On that front, things are looking good so it's worth exploring what management has said about growth plans going forward.

The Bottom Line On CULTI Milano's ROCE

To bring it all together, CULTI Milano has done well to increase the returns it's generating from its capital employed. And a remarkable 239% total return over the last five years tells us that investors are expecting more good things to come in the future. With that being said, we still think the promising fundamentals mean the company deserves some further due diligence.

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