Gravity (NASDAQ:GRVY) Looks To Prolong Its Impressive Returns
If you're not sure where to start when looking for the next multi-bagger, there are a few key trends you should keep an eye out for. Typically, we'll want to notice a trend of growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and alongside that, an expanding base of capital employed. If you see this, it typically means it's a company with a great business model and plenty of profitable reinvestment opportunities. Ergo, when we looked at the ROCE trends at Gravity (NASDAQ:GRVY), we liked what we saw.
What Is Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)?
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 Gravity, this is the formula:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.25 = ₩76b ÷ (₩398b - ₩89b) (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2022).
Therefore, Gravity has an ROCE of 25%. In absolute terms that's a great return and it's even better than the Entertainment industry average of 8.4%.
View our latest analysis for Gravity
Historical performance is a great place to start when researching a stock so above you can see the gauge for Gravity's ROCE against it's prior returns. If you want to delve into the historical earnings, revenue and cash flow of Gravity, check out these free graphs here.
What The Trend Of ROCE Can Tell Us
Gravity deserves to be commended in regards to it's returns. The company has employed 580% more capital in the last five years, and the returns on that capital have remained stable at 25%. With returns that high, it's great that the business can continually reinvest its money at such appealing rates of return. You'll see this when looking at well operated businesses or favorable business models.
One more thing to note, even though ROCE has remained relatively flat over the last five years, the reduction in current liabilities to 22% of total assets, is good to see from a business owner's perspective. This can eliminate some of the risks inherent in the operations because the business has less outstanding obligations to their suppliers and or short-term creditors than they did previously.
What We Can Learn From Gravity's ROCE
In summary, we're delighted to see that Gravity has been compounding returns by reinvesting at consistently high rates of return, as these are common traits of a multi-bagger. In light of this, the stock has only gained 0.6% over the last five years for shareholders who have owned the stock in this period. So because of the trends we're seeing, we'd recommend looking further into this stock to see if it has the makings of a multi-bagger.
On the other side of ROCE, we have to consider valuation. That's why we have a FREE intrinsic value estimation on our platform that is definitely worth checking out.
If you'd like to see other companies earning high returns, check out our free list of companies earning high returns with solid balance sheets here.
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