Techfast Holdings Berhad's (KLSE:TECFAST) Stock's On An Uptrend: Are Strong Financials Guiding The Market?

Techfast Holdings Berhad (KLSE:TECFAST) has had a great run on the share market with its stock up by a significant 17% over the last week. 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. Particularly, we will be paying attention to Techfast Holdings Berhad's ROE today.

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.

Check out our latest analysis for Techfast Holdings Berhad

How Do You Calculate Return On Equity?

The formula for return on equity is:

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

So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Techfast Holdings Berhad is:

12% = RM3.3m ÷ RM28m (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2020).

The 'return' refers to a company's earnings over the last year. Another way to think of that is that for every MYR1 worth of equity, the company was able to earn MYR0.12 in profit.

What Has ROE Got To Do With Earnings Growth?

We have already established that ROE serves as an efficient profit-generating gauge for a company's future earnings. 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.

A Side By Side comparison of Techfast Holdings Berhad's Earnings Growth And 12% ROE

To begin with, Techfast Holdings Berhad seems to have a respectable ROE. Especially when compared to the industry average of 8.3% the company's ROE looks pretty impressive. This certainly adds some context to Techfast Holdings Berhad's decent 8.7% net income growth seen over the past five years.

Given that the industry shrunk its earnings at a rate of 0.2% in the same period, the net income growth of the company is quite impressive.

Earnings growth is a huge factor in stock valuation. 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. One good indicator of expected earnings growth is the P/E ratio which determines the price the market is willing to pay for a stock based on its earnings prospects. So, you may want to check if Techfast Holdings Berhad is trading on a high P/E or a low P/E, relative to its industry.

Is Techfast Holdings Berhad Using Its Retained Earnings Effectively?

Techfast Holdings Berhad has a significant three-year median payout ratio of 58%, meaning that it is left with only 42% to reinvest into its business. This implies that the company has been able to achieve decent earnings growth despite returning most of its profits to shareholders.

Additionally, Techfast Holdings Berhad has paid dividends over a period of eight years which means that the company is pretty serious about sharing its profits with shareholders.

Summary

Overall, we are quite pleased with Techfast Holdings Berhad's performance. Especially the high ROE, Which has contributed to the impressive growth seen in earnings. Despite the company reinvesting only a small portion of its profits, it still has managed to grow its earnings so that is appreciable. Up till now, we've only made a short study of the company's growth data. You can do your own research on Techfast Holdings Berhad and see how it has performed in the past by looking at this FREE detailed graph of past earnings, revenue and cash flows.

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