Oddity Tech's (NASDAQ:ODD) Returns On Capital Not Reflecting Well On The Business

Did you know there are some financial metrics that can provide clues of a potential multi-bagger? One common approach is to try and find a company with returns on capital employed (ROCE) that are increasing, in conjunction with a growing amount of capital employed. This shows us that it's a compounding machine, able to continually reinvest its earnings back into the business and generate higher returns. However, after briefly looking over the numbers, we don't think Oddity Tech (NASDAQ:ODD) has the makings of a multi-bagger going forward, but let's have a look at why that may be.

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What Is Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)?

Just to clarify if you're unsure, ROCE is a metric for evaluating how much pre-tax income (in percentage terms) a company earns on the capital invested in its business. To calculate this metric for Oddity Tech, this is the formula:

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

0.12 = US$121m ÷ (US$1.1b - US$104m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2025).

So, Oddity Tech has an ROCE of 12%. That's a relatively normal return on capital, and it's around the 10% generated by the Personal Products industry.

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In the above chart we have measured Oddity Tech's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you're interested, you can view the analysts predictions in our free analyst report for Oddity Tech .

What Does the ROCE Trend For Oddity Tech Tell Us?

In terms of Oddity Tech's historical ROCE movements, the trend isn't fantastic. To be more specific, ROCE has fallen from 24% over the last four years. However, given capital employed and revenue have both increased it appears that the business is currently pursuing growth, at the consequence of short term returns. If these investments prove successful, this can bode very well for long term stock performance.

On a side note, Oddity Tech has done well to pay down its current liabilities to 9.4% of total assets. So we could link some of this to the decrease in ROCE. What's more, this can reduce some aspects of risk to the business because now the company's suppliers or short-term creditors are funding less of its operations. Some would claim this reduces the business' efficiency at generating ROCE since it is now funding more of the operations with its own money.

In Conclusion...

While returns have fallen for Oddity Tech in recent times, we're encouraged to see that sales are growing and that the business is reinvesting in its operations. These growth trends haven't led to growth returns though, since the stock has fallen 11% over the last year. So we think it'd be worthwhile to look further into this stock given the trends look encouraging.

While Oddity Tech doesn't shine too bright in this respect, it's still worth seeing if the company is trading at attractive prices. You can find that out with our FREE intrinsic value estimation for ODD on our platform.

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