Topco Technologies Corp.'s (GTSM:3388) Stock Has Shown A Decent Performance: Have Financials A Role To Play?

Topco Technologies' (GTSM:3388) stock up by 6.9% over the past three months. As most would know, long-term fundamentals have a strong correlation with market price movements, so we decided to look at the company's key financial indicators today to determine if they have any role to play in the recent price movement. Specifically, we decided to study Topco Technologies' ROE in this article.

Return on equity or ROE is a key measure used to assess how efficiently a company's management is utilizing the company's capital. Put another way, it reveals the company's success at turning shareholder investments into profits.

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How Is ROE Calculated?

ROE can be calculated by using the formula:

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

So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Topco Technologies is:

10% = NT$396m ÷ NT$3.9b (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2020).

The 'return' is the profit over the last twelve months. So, this means that for every NT$1 of its shareholder's investments, the company generates a profit of NT$0.10.

What Is The Relationship Between ROE And Earnings Growth?

We have already established that ROE serves as an efficient profit-generating gauge for a company's future earnings. Based on how much of its profits the company chooses to reinvest or "retain", we are then able to evaluate a company's future ability to generate profits. 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.

Topco Technologies' Earnings Growth And 10% ROE

To start with, Topco Technologies' ROE looks acceptable. Further, the company's ROE is similar to the industry average of 10%. This probably goes some way in explaining Topco Technologies' moderate 8.0% growth over the past five years amongst other factors.

As a next step, we compared Topco Technologies' net income growth with the industry and were disappointed to see that the company's growth is lower than the industry average growth of 13% in the same period.

The basis for attaching value to a company is, to a great extent, tied to its earnings growth. 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 Topco Technologies fairly valued compared to other companies? These 3 valuation measures might help you decide.

Is Topco Technologies Efficiently Re-investing Its Profits?

The high three-year median payout ratio of 71% (or a retention ratio of 29%) for Topco Technologies suggests that the company's growth wasn't really hampered despite it returning most of its income to its shareholders.

Additionally, Topco Technologies has paid dividends over a period of at least ten years which means that the company is pretty serious about sharing its profits with shareholders.

Summary

On the whole, we do feel that Topco Technologies has some positive attributes. Its earnings have grown respectably as we saw earlier, which was likely due to the company reinvesting its earnings at a pretty high rate of return. However, given the high ROE, we do think that the company is reinvesting a small portion of its profits. This could likely be preventing the company from growing to its full extent. Up till now, we've only made a short study of the company's growth data. To gain further insights into Topco Technologies' past profit growth, check out this visualization of past earnings, revenue and cash flows.

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