Yahoo Finance The Return Trends At GDI Integrated Facility Services (TSE:GDI) Look Promising
Finding a business that has the potential to grow substantially is not easy, but it is possible if we look at a few key financial metrics. Ideally, a business will show two trends; firstly a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an increasing amount of capital employed. Basically this means that a company has profitable initiatives that it can continue to reinvest in, which is a trait of a compounding machine. With that in mind, we've noticed some promising trends at GDI Integrated Facility Services (TSE:GDI) so let's look a bit deeper.
Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What is it?
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 GDI Integrated Facility Services, this is the formula:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.16 = CA$91m ÷ (CA$817m - CA$265m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2021).
Therefore, GDI Integrated Facility Services has an ROCE of 16%. On its own, that's a standard return, however it's much better than the 7.9% generated by the Commercial Services industry.
See our latest analysis for GDI Integrated Facility Services
In the above chart we have measured GDI Integrated Facility Services' 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 report on analyst forecasts for the company.
So How Is GDI Integrated Facility Services' ROCE Trending?
Investors would be pleased with what's happening at GDI Integrated Facility Services. The numbers show that in the last five years, the returns generated on capital employed have grown considerably to 16%. Basically the business is earning more per dollar of capital invested and in addition to that, 58% more capital is being employed now too. The increasing returns on a growing amount of capital is common amongst multi-baggers and that's why we're impressed.
The Key Takeaway
To sum it up, GDI Integrated Facility Services has proven it can reinvest in the business and generate higher returns on that capital employed, which is terrific. Since the stock has returned a staggering 258% to shareholders over the last five years, it looks like investors are recognizing these changes. So given the stock has proven it has promising trends, it's worth researching the company further to see if these trends are likely to persist.
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