Digital Turbine, Inc. (NasdaqCM:APPS) Retains Strong Financials Despite the Pullback

Although it might sound surprising, Digital Turbine ( NasdaqCM:APPS) has been around since 1998. After some changes , the breakthrough came as a mobile services platform that provides portal management, user interface, and content development and billing technology.

The company embedded itself deeply into the Android mobile market and is in good graces of carriers such as Verizon or AT&T, as well as corporations like Netflix or Amazon who want their apps pre-installed on Android phones.

User reach exceeded 600 million, improving the revenue growth outlook with recent acquisitions of Fyber , AdColony and Appreciate. Expect leveraging the know-how to drive down the costs even more and expand into new markets.

Mobile internet advertising spending projections, Source: AdColony

After explosive growth in 2020, Digital Turbine slowed down in the recent 3 months with a 12% decline. Yet, its financials remain solid, and it wouldn’t be surprising to see the price continue outperforming the market in the long run. In this article, we decided to focus on Digital Turbine's ROE.

Return on equity or ROE is a key measure used to assess how efficiently a company's management is utilizing the company's capital. In simpler terms, it measures the profitability of a company with shareholder's equity.

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How To Calculate Return On Equity?

The formula for return on equity is:

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

So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Digital Turbine is:

38% = US$55m ÷ US$145m (Based on the trailing twelve months to March 2021).

The 'return' is the income the business earned over the last year.Another way to think of that is that for every $1 worth of equity, the company was able to earn $0.38 in profit.

Why Is ROE Important For Earnings Growth?

The ROE is a measure of a company's profitability.Based on how much of its profits the company chooses to reinvest or "retain," we can then evaluate a company's future ability to generate profits.Generally speaking, firms with a high return on equity and profit retention have a higher growth rate than firms that don't share these attributes.

A Side By Side Comparison of Digital Turbine's Earnings Growth And 38% ROE

To begin with, Digital Turbine has a pretty high ROE.Additionally, the company's ROE is higher than the industry average of 13%, which is quite remarkable.As a result, Digital Turbine's exceptional 68% net income growth was seen over the past five years, which doesn't come as a surprise.

As a next step, we compared Digital Turbine's net income growth with the industry, and pleasingly, we found that the growth seen by the company is higher than the average industry growth of 26%.

Earnings growth is a huge factor in stock valuation. Investors need to determine if the expected earnings growth, or the lack of it, is already built into the share price.Doing so will help them establish if the stock's future looks promising or ominous. Is Digital Turbine fairly valued compared to other companies? These 3 valuation measures might help you decide.

Digital Turbine remains a presence in 22 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of the Q1 2021, therefore institutional interest in the stock remains high.

Conclusion

In total, we are pretty happy with Digital Turbine's performance.Specifically, we like that the company is reinvesting a huge chunk of its profits at a high rate of return. This, of course, has caused the company to see substantial growth in its earnings.Having said that, the company's earnings growth is expected to slow down, as forecast in the current analyst estimates.

To know more about the company's latest analysts' predictions, check out this visualization of analyst forecasts for the company.

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