If you’re not sure where to start when seeing for the next multi-bagger, there are a few key trfinishs you should keep an eye out for. Firstly, we’d want to identify a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and then alongside that, an ever-increasing 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. In light of that, when we seeed at Kagome (TSE:2811) and its ROCE trfinish, we weren’t exactly thrilled.
What Is Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)?
If you haven’t worked with ROCE before, it measures the ‘return’ (pre-tax profit) a company generates from capital employed in its business. To calculate this metric for Kagome, this is the formula:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets – Current Liabilities)
0.053 = JP¥12b ÷ (JP¥330b – JP¥104b) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2025).
So, Kagome has an ROCE of 5.3%. Ultimately, that’s a low return and it under-performs the Food industest average of 7.4%.
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In the above chart we have measured Kagome’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 Kagome for free.
What The Trfinish Of ROCE Can Tell Us
The trfinish of ROCE doesn’t see fantastic becautilize it’s fallen from 9.5% five years ago, while the business’s capital employed increased by 73%. Usually this isn’t ideal, but given Kagome conducted a capital raising before their most recent earnings announcement, that would’ve likely contributed, at least partially, to the increased capital employed figure. Kagome probably hasn’t received a full year of earnings yet from the new funds it raised, so these figures should be taken with a grain of salt.
The Bottom Line
While returns have fallen for Kagome in recent times, we’re encouraged to see that sales are growing and that the business is reinvesting in its operations. These trfinishs don’t appear to have influenced returns though, becautilize the total return from the stock has been mostly flat over the last five years. So we consider it’d be worthwhile to see further into this stock given the trfinishs see encouraging.
On a separate note, we’ve found 2 warning signs for Kagome you’ll probably want to know about.
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