Yahoo Finance Declining Stock and Decent Financials: Is The Market Wrong About 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLWS)?
With its stock down 20% over the past month, it is easy to disregard 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (NASDAQ:FLWS). However, the company's fundamentals look pretty decent, and long-term financials are usually aligned with future market price movements. Particularly, we will be paying attention to 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's ROE today.
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 short, ROE shows the profit each dollar generates with respect to its shareholder investments.
Check out our latest analysis for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM
How Is ROE Calculated?
The formula for ROE is:
Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity
So, based on the above formula, the ROE for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM is:
0.6% = US$3.2m ÷ US$561m (Based on the trailing twelve months to January 2023).
The 'return' refers to a company's earnings over the last year. So, this means that for every $1 of its shareholder's investments, the company generates a profit of $0.01.
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. 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.
1-800-FLOWERS.COM's Earnings Growth And 0.6% ROE
As you can see, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's ROE looks pretty weak. Even compared to the average industry ROE of 20%, the company's ROE is quite dismal. However, the moderate 5.6% net income growth seen by 1-800-FLOWERS.COM over the past five years is definitely a positive. We believe that there might be other aspects that are positively influencing the company's earnings growth. For example, it is possible that the company's management has made some good strategic decisions, or that the company has a low payout ratio.
As a next step, we compared 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's net income growth with the industry and were disappointed to see that the company's growth is lower than the industry average growth of 26% 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. Doing so will help them establish if the stock's future looks promising or ominous. If you're wondering about 1-800-FLOWERS.COM's's valuation, check out this gauge of its price-to-earnings ratio, as compared to its industry.
Is 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Efficiently Re-investing Its Profits?
Given that 1-800-FLOWERS.COM doesn't pay any dividend to its shareholders, we infer that the company has been reinvesting all of its profits to grow its business.
Conclusion
On the whole, we do feel that 1-800-FLOWERS.COM has some positive attributes. That is, a decent growth in earnings backed by a high rate of reinvestment. However, we do feel that that earnings growth could have been higher if the business were to improve on the low ROE rate. Especially given how the company is reinvesting a huge chunk of its profits. Having said that, looking at the current analyst estimates, we found that the company's earnings are expected to gain momentum. To know more about the latest analysts predictions for the company, check out this visualization of analyst forecasts for the company.
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