ITE Tech. Inc's (TPE:3014) Fundamentals Look Pretty Strong: Could The Market Be Wrong About The Stock?

With its stock down 8.0% over the past three months, it is easy to disregard ITE Tech (TPE:3014). However, the company's fundamentals look pretty decent, and long-term financials are usually aligned with future market price movements. Specifically, we decided to study ITE Tech's ROE in this article.

Return on Equity or ROE is a test of how effectively a company is growing its value and managing investors’ money. In short, ROE shows the profit each dollar generates with respect to its shareholder investments.

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How Is ROE Calculated?

Return on equity 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 ITE Tech is:

19% = NT$827m ÷ NT$4.3b (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2020).

The 'return' is the amount earned after tax 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$0.19.

Why Is ROE Important For Earnings Growth?

We have already established that ROE serves as an efficient profit-generating gauge for a company's future earnings. We now need to evaluate how much profit the company reinvests or "retains" for future growth which then gives us an idea about the growth potential of the company. Assuming all else is equal, companies that have both a higher return on equity and higher profit retention are usually the ones that have a higher growth rate when compared to companies that don't have the same features.

ITE Tech's Earnings Growth And 19% ROE

To begin with, ITE Tech seems to have a respectable ROE. On comparing with the average industry ROE of 11% the company's ROE looks pretty remarkable. This certainly adds some context to ITE Tech's decent 16% net income growth seen over the past five years.

We then compared ITE Tech's net income growth with the industry and we're pleased to see that the company's growth figure is higher when compared with the industry which has a growth rate of 8.9% in the same period.

Earnings growth is an important metric to consider when valuing a stock. The investor should try to establish if the expected growth or decline in earnings, whichever the case may be, is priced in. By doing so, they will have an idea if the stock is headed into clear blue waters or if swampy waters await. Is ITE Tech fairly valued compared to other companies? These 3 valuation measures might help you decide.

Is ITE Tech Making Efficient Use Of Its Profits?

ITE Tech has a significant three-year median payout ratio of 90%, meaning that it is left with only 9.9% 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.

Moreover, ITE Tech is determined to keep sharing its profits with shareholders which we infer from its long history of eight years of paying a dividend.

Summary

Overall, we feel that ITE Tech certainly does have some positive factors to consider. Namely, its high earnings growth, which was likely due to its high ROE. However, investors could have benefitted even more from the high ROE, had the company been reinvesting more of its earnings. As discussed earlier, the company is retaining hardly any of its profits. Up till now, we've only made a short study of the company's growth data. You can do your own research on ITE Tech 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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