Returns Are Gaining Momentum At Cheng Shin Rubber Ind (TWSE:2105)

If we want to find a potential multi-bagger, often there are underlying trends that can provide clues. Ideally, a business will show two trends; firstly a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an increasing amount of capital employed. If you see this, it typically means it's a company with a great business model and plenty of profitable reinvestment opportunities. With that in mind, we've noticed some promising trends at Cheng Shin Rubber Ind (TWSE:2105) so let's look a bit deeper.

Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What Is It?

If you haven't worked with ROCE before, it measures the 'return' (pre-tax profit) a company generates from capital employed in its business. To calculate this metric for Cheng Shin Rubber Ind, this is the formula:

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

0.099 = NT$12b ÷ (NT$144b - NT$27b) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2024).

Therefore, Cheng Shin Rubber Ind has an ROCE of 9.9%. In absolute terms, that's a low return but it's around the Auto Components industry average of 8.6%.

See our latest analysis for Cheng Shin Rubber Ind

Above you can see how the current ROCE for Cheng Shin Rubber Ind compares to its prior returns on capital, but there's only so much you can tell from the past. If you'd like, you can check out the forecasts from the analysts covering Cheng Shin Rubber Ind for free.

How Are Returns Trending?

Cheng Shin Rubber Ind's ROCE growth is quite impressive. More specifically, while the company has kept capital employed relatively flat over the last five years, the ROCE has climbed 77% 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. It's worth looking deeper into this though because while it's great that the business is more efficient, it might also mean that going forward the areas to invest internally for the organic growth are lacking.

Our Take On Cheng Shin Rubber Ind's ROCE

To sum it up, Cheng Shin Rubber Ind is collecting higher returns from the same amount of capital, and that's impressive. Since the stock has only returned 29% to shareholders over the last five years, the promising fundamentals may not be recognized yet by investors. Given that, we'd look further into this stock in case it has more traits that could make it multiply in the long term.

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