Yahoo Finance Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) Is Achieving High Returns On Its Capital
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. 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. And in light of that, the trends we're seeing at Columbia Sportswear's (NASDAQ:COLM) look very promising so lets take a look.
Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What Is It?
For those that aren't sure what ROCE is, it measures the amount of pre-tax profits a company can generate from the capital employed in its business. Analysts use this formula to calculate it for Columbia Sportswear:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.21 = US$450m ÷ (US$2.9b - US$697m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2022).
Therefore, Columbia Sportswear has an ROCE of 21%. In absolute terms that's a very respectable return and compared to the Luxury industry average of 17% it's pretty much on par.
View our latest analysis for Columbia Sportswear
In the above chart we have measured Columbia Sportswear's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you'd like to see what analysts are forecasting going forward, you should check out our free report for Columbia Sportswear.
What Can We Tell From Columbia Sportswear's ROCE Trend?
Investors would be pleased with what's happening at Columbia Sportswear. The numbers show that in the last five years, the returns generated on capital employed have grown considerably to 21%. The amount of capital employed has increased too, by 28%. The increasing returns on a growing amount of capital is common amongst multi-baggers and that's why we're impressed.
The Bottom Line On Columbia Sportswear's ROCE
In summary, it's great to see that Columbia Sportswear can compound returns by consistently reinvesting capital at increasing rates of return, because these are some of the key ingredients of those highly sought after multi-baggers. Considering the stock has delivered 33% to its stockholders over the last five years, it may be fair to think that investors aren't fully aware of the promising trends yet. Given that, we'd look further into this stock in case it has more traits that could make it multiply in the long term.
One more thing to note, we've identified 1 warning sign with Columbia Sportswear and understanding it should be part of your investment process.
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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