Returns On Capital Are A Standout For Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad (KLSE:RUBEREX)

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 Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad (KLSE:RUBEREX) we really liked what we saw.

Understanding Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)

For those who don't know, ROCE is a measure of a company's yearly pre-tax profit (its return), relative to the capital employed in the business. The formula for this calculation on Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad is:

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

0.38 = RM237m ÷ (RM667m - RM48m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2021).

Thus, Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad has an ROCE of 38%. In absolute terms that's a great return and it's even better than the Household Products industry average of 12%.

Check out our latest analysis for Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad

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 want to delve into the historical earnings, revenue and cash flow of Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad, check out these free graphs here.

How Are Returns Trending?

Investors would be pleased with what's happening at Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad. The numbers show that in the last five years, the returns generated on capital employed have grown considerably to 38%. Basically the business is earning more per dollar of capital invested and in addition to that, 115% more capital is being employed now too. So we're very much inspired by what we're seeing at Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad thanks to its ability to profitably reinvest capital.

In another part of our analysis, we noticed that the company's ratio of current liabilities to total assets decreased to 7.2%, which broadly means the business is relying less on its suppliers or short-term creditors to fund its operations. So this improvement in ROCE has come from the business' underlying economics, which is great to see.

The Bottom Line

In summary, it's great to see that Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad 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. Since the stock has returned a solid 79% to shareholders over the last five years, it's fair to say investors are beginning to recognize these changes. In light of that, we think it's worth looking further into this stock because if Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad can keep these trends up, it could have a bright future ahead.

One more thing, we've spotted 3 warning signs facing Rubberex Corporation (M) Berhad that you might find interesting.

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