Is FIBERPRO, Inc.'s (KOSDAQ:368770) Stock's Recent Performance Being Led By Its Attractive Financial Prospects?

FIBERPRO (KOSDAQ:368770) has had a great run on the share market with its stock up by a significant 32% over the last three months. Since the market usually pay for a company’s long-term fundamentals, we decided to study the company’s key performance indicators to see if they could be influencing the market. Specifically, we decided to study FIBERPRO'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. In other words, it is a profitability ratio which measures the rate of return on the capital provided by the company's shareholders.

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How To Calculate Return On Equity?

The formula for ROE is:

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

So, based on the above formula, the ROE for FIBERPRO is:

15% = ₩5.3b ÷ ₩36b (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2024).

The 'return' is the amount earned after tax over the last twelve months. Another way to think of that is that for every ₩1 worth of equity, the company was able to earn ₩0.15 in profit.

What Has ROE Got To Do With Earnings Growth?

So far, we've learned that ROE is a measure of a company's profitability. Depending on how much of these profits the company reinvests or "retains", and how effectively it does so, we are then able to assess a company’s earnings growth potential. 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.

FIBERPRO's Earnings Growth And 15% ROE

To start with, FIBERPRO's ROE looks acceptable. Further, the company's ROE compares quite favorably to the industry average of 6.8%. This probably laid the ground for FIBERPRO's significant 37% net income growth seen over the past five years. However, there could also be other causes behind this growth. Such as - high earnings retention or an efficient management in place.

As a next step, we compared FIBERPRO's net income growth with the industry, and pleasingly, we found that the growth seen by the company is higher than the average industry growth of 15%.

Earnings growth is a huge factor in stock valuation. What investors need to determine next is if the expected earnings growth, or the lack of it, is already built into the share price. By doing so, they will have an idea if the stock is headed into clear blue waters or if swampy waters await. Is FIBERPRO fairly valued compared to other companies? These 3 valuation measures might help you decide.

Is FIBERPRO Making Efficient Use Of Its Profits?

FIBERPRO has a really low three-year median payout ratio of 15%, meaning that it has the remaining 85% left over to reinvest into its business. This suggests that the management is reinvesting most of the profits to grow the business as evidenced by the growth seen by the company.

Upon studying the latest analysts' consensus data, we found that the company is expected to keep paying out approximately 16% of its profits over the next three years. Accordingly, forecasts suggest that FIBERPRO's future ROE will be 16% which is again, similar to the current ROE.

Summary

In total, we are pretty happy with FIBERPRO's performance. Particularly, we like that the company is reinvesting heavily into its business, and at a high rate of return. Unsurprisingly, this has led to an impressive earnings growth. Having said that, the company's earnings growth is expected to slow down, as forecasted in the current analyst estimates. 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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