Yahoo Finance TechTarget (NASDAQ:TTGT) Is Doing The Right Things To Multiply Its Share Price
If you're looking for a multi-bagger, there's a few things to keep an eye out for. In a perfect world, we'd like to see a company investing more capital into its business and ideally the returns earned from that capital are also increasing. This shows us that it's a compounding machine, able to continually reinvest its earnings back into the business and generate higher returns. With that in mind, we've noticed some promising trends at TechTarget (NASDAQ:TTGT) so let's look a bit deeper.
What is Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)?
For those who don't know, ROCE is a measure of a company's yearly pre-tax profit (its return), relative to the capital employed in the business. The formula for this calculation on TechTarget is:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.074 = US$33m ÷ (US$509m - US$63m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2021).
So, TechTarget has an ROCE of 7.4%. On its own, that's a low figure but it's around the 9.1% average generated by the Media industry.
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In the above chart we have measured TechTarget's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you'd like, you can check out the forecasts from the analysts covering TechTarget here for free.
What The Trend Of ROCE Can Tell Us
Even though ROCE is still low in absolute terms, it's good to see it's heading in the right direction. The data shows that returns on capital have increased substantially over the last five years to 7.4%. The company is effectively making more money per dollar of capital used, and it's worth noting that the amount of capital has increased too, by 167%. This can indicate that there's plenty of opportunities to invest capital internally and at ever higher rates, a combination that's common among multi-baggers.
In Conclusion...
To sum it up, TechTarget has proven it can reinvest in the business and generate higher returns on that capital employed, which is terrific. And with the stock having performed exceptionally well over the last five years, these patterns are being accounted for by investors. Therefore, we think it would be worth your time to check if these trends are going to continue.
If you want to continue researching TechTarget, you might be interested to know about the 4 warning signs that our analysis has discovered.
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