Understanding Your Return On Investment In P/F Bakkafrost (OB:BAKKA)

This analysis is intended to introduce important early concepts to people who are starting to invest and want to begin learning the link between P/F Bakkafrost (OB:BAKKA)’s return fundamentals and stock market performance.

P/F Bakkafrost stock represents an ownership share in the company. As a result, your investment is being put to work to fund operations and if you want to earn an attractive return on your investment, the business needs to be making an adequate amount of money from the funds you provide. Your return is tied to BAKKA’s ability to do this because the amount earned is used to invest in opportunities to grow the business or payout dividends, which are the two sources of return on investment. Thus, to understand how your money can grow by investing in P/F Bakkafrost, you need to look at what the company returns to owners for the use of their capital, which can be done in many ways but today we will use return on capital employed (ROCE).

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P/F Bakkafrost's Return On Capital Employed

When you choose to invest in a company, there is an opportunity cost because that money could’ve been invested elsewhere. Therefore all else aside, your investment in a certain company represents a vote of confidence that the money used to buy the stock will grow larger than if invested elsewhere. So the business' ability to grow the size of your capital is very important and can be assessed by comparing the return on capital you can get on your investment with a hurdle rate that depends on the other return possibilities you can identify. To determine P/F Bakkafrost's capital return we will use ROCE, which tells us how much the company makes from the capital employed in their operations (for things like machinery, wages etc). Take a look at the formula box beneath:

BAKKA’s 16% ROCE means that for every NOK100 you invest, the company creates NOK15.5. This makes P/F Bakkafrost satisfactorily profitable when compared to a robust 15% ROCE yardstick. So if this rate continues in to the future and is able to either provide solid dividends or reinvestment opportunities, your capital will enlarge at a favourable rate over time.

Does this mean I should invest?

Although P/F Bakkafrost is in a favourable position, you should know that this could change if the company is unable to maintain a strong ROCE above the benchmark, which will depend on the behaviour of the underlying variables (EBT and capital employed). So it is important for investors to understand what is going on under the hood and look at how these variables have been behaving. Three years ago, BAKKA’s ROCE was 30%, which means the company's capital returns have worsened. In this time, earnings have fallen from ø973m to ø786m and capital employed has increased due to an increase in total assets employed , which means the company's ROCE has shrunk as a result of falling earnings and simultaneous increases in capital requirements.

Next Steps

Although P/F Bakkafrost’s ROCE has decreased over the past few years, the company still remains an attractive candidate that is capable of producing solid capital returns and a potentially strong return on investment. Before making any decisions, ROCE does not tell the whole picture so you need to pay attention to other fundamentals like future prospects and valuation. If you don't pay attention to these factors you cannot be sure if the downward path is a signal to run, or just a blip in an otherwise solid return profile. P/F Bakkafrost's fundamentals can be explored with the links I've provided below if you are interested, otherwise you can start looking at other high-performing stocks.

1. Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for BAKKA’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for BAKKA’s outlook.
2. Valuation: What is BAKKA worth today? Is the stock undervalued, even if its ROCE is factored into its intrinsic value? The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether BAKKA is currently mispriced by the market.
3. Other High-Performing Stocks: Are there other stocks that provide better prospects with proven track records? Explore our free list of these great stocks here.

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