Yahoo Finance Birchcliff Energy (TSE:BIR) Is Achieving High Returns On Its Capital
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. Ultimately, this demonstrates that it's a business that is reinvesting profits at increasing rates of return. With that in mind, the ROCE of Birchcliff Energy (TSE:BIR) looks great, so lets see what the trend can tell us.
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 Birchcliff Energy, this is the formula:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.22 = CA$656m ÷ (CA$3.1b - CA$146m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to March 2023).
Thus, Birchcliff Energy has an ROCE of 22%. In absolute terms that's a very respectable return and compared to the Oil and Gas industry average of 19% it's pretty much on par.
See our latest analysis for Birchcliff Energy
In the above chart we have measured Birchcliff Energy's 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.
What Does the ROCE Trend For Birchcliff Energy Tell Us?
Birchcliff Energy is showing promise given that its ROCE is trending up and to the right. The figures show that over the last five years, ROCE has grown 299% whilst employing roughly the same amount of capital. So our take on this is that the business has increased efficiencies to generate these higher returns, all the while not needing to make any additional investments. On that front, things are looking good so it's worth exploring what management has said about growth plans going forward.
What We Can Learn From Birchcliff Energy's ROCE
As discussed above, Birchcliff Energy appears to be getting more proficient at generating returns since capital employed has remained flat but earnings (before interest and tax) are up. Since the stock has returned a staggering 108% to shareholders over the last five years, it looks like investors are recognizing these changes. With that being said, we still think the promising fundamentals mean the company deserves some further due diligence.
On a separate note, we've found 1 warning sign for Birchcliff Energy you'll probably want to know about.
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