Yahoo Finance The Returns At RCI Hospitality Holdings (NASDAQ:RICK) Aren't Growing
If we want to find a stock that could multiply over the long term, what are the underlying trends we should look for? Amongst other things, we'll want to see two things; firstly, a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an expansion in the company's 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. That's why when we briefly looked at RCI Hospitality Holdings' (NASDAQ:RICK) ROCE trend, we were pretty happy with what we saw.
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. The formula for this calculation on RCI Hospitality Holdings is:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.14 = US$73m ÷ (US$556m - US$40m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2022).
Therefore, RCI Hospitality Holdings has an ROCE of 14%. In absolute terms, that's a satisfactory return, but compared to the Hospitality industry average of 9.8% it's much better.
Check out our latest analysis for RCI Hospitality Holdings
In the above chart we have measured RCI Hospitality Holdings' 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.
The Trend Of ROCE
The trend of ROCE doesn't stand out much, but returns on a whole are decent. Over the past five years, ROCE has remained relatively flat at around 14% and the business has deployed 85% more capital into its operations. 14% is a pretty standard return, and it provides some comfort knowing that RCI Hospitality Holdings has consistently earned this amount. Over long periods of time, returns like these might not be too exciting, but with consistency they can pay off in terms of share price returns.
The Key Takeaway
In the end, RCI Hospitality Holdings has proven its ability to adequately reinvest capital at good rates of return. And the stock has done incredibly well with a 187% return over the last five years, so long term investors are no doubt ecstatic with that result. So even though the stock might be more "expensive" than it was before, we think the strong fundamentals warrant this stock for further research.
RCI Hospitality Holdings does have some risks though, and we've spotted 1 warning sign for RCI Hospitality Holdings that you might be interested in.
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