Yahoo Finance Could The Market Be Wrong About Beacon Lighting Group Limited (ASX:BLX) Given Its Attractive Financial Prospects?
Beacon Lighting Group (ASX:BLX) has had a rough month with its share price down 23%. However, stock prices are usually driven by a company’s financial performance over the long term, which in this case looks quite promising. In this article, we decided to focus on Beacon Lighting Group's ROE.
ROE or return on equity is a useful tool to assess how effectively a company can generate returns on the investment it received from its shareholders. Put another way, it reveals the company's success at turning shareholder investments into profits.
Check out our latest analysis for Beacon Lighting Group
How Do You Calculate Return On Equity?
The formula for ROE is:
Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity
So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Beacon Lighting Group is:
31% = AU$38m ÷ AU$125m (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2021).
The 'return' is the profit over the last twelve months. So, this means that for every A$1 of its shareholder's investments, the company generates a profit of A$0.31.
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. Depending on how much of these profits the company reinvests or "retains", and how effectively it does so, we are then able to assess a company’s earnings growth potential. 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.
A Side By Side comparison of Beacon Lighting Group's Earnings Growth And 31% ROE
To begin with, Beacon Lighting Group has a pretty high ROE which is interesting. Additionally, the company's ROE is higher compared to the industry average of 21% which is quite remarkable. Probably as a result of this, Beacon Lighting Group was able to see a decent net income growth of 18% over the last five years.
As a next step, we compared Beacon Lighting Group's net income growth with the industry and found that the company has a similar growth figure when compared with the industry average growth rate of 18% in the same period.
Earnings growth is an important metric to consider when valuing a stock. What investors need to determine next is 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 Beacon Lighting Group fairly valued compared to other companies? These 3 valuation measures might help you decide.
Is Beacon Lighting Group Using Its Retained Earnings Effectively?
While Beacon Lighting Group has a three-year median payout ratio of 52% (which means it retains 48% of profits), the company has still seen a fair bit of earnings growth in the past, meaning that its high payout ratio hasn't hampered its ability to grow.
Besides, Beacon Lighting Group has been paying dividends over a period of eight years. This shows that the company is committed to sharing profits with its shareholders. Upon studying the latest analysts' consensus data, we found that the company is expected to keep paying out approximately 58% of its profits over the next three years. However, Beacon Lighting Group's future ROE is expected to decline to 24% despite there being not much change anticipated in the company's payout ratio.
Conclusion
Overall, we are quite pleased with Beacon Lighting Group's performance. Especially the high ROE, Which has contributed to the impressive growth seen in earnings. Despite the company reinvesting only a small portion of its profits, it still has managed to grow its earnings so that is appreciable. Having said that, the company's earnings growth is expected to slow down, as forecasted in the current analyst estimates. Are these analysts expectations based on the broad expectations for the industry, or on the company's fundamentals? Click here to be taken to our analyst's forecasts page for the company.
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