Yahoo Finance Is Genie Energy Ltd.'s (NYSE:GNE) Recent Stock Performance Tethered To Its Strong Fundamentals?
Genie Energy's (NYSE:GNE) stock is up by a considerable 21% over the past three months. Given that the market rewards strong financials in the long-term, we wonder if that is the case in this instance. Particularly, we will be paying attention to Genie Energy's ROE today.
ROE or return on equity is a useful tool to assess how effectively a company can generate returns on the investment it received from its shareholders. In short, ROE shows the profit each dollar generates with respect to its shareholder investments.
View our latest analysis for Genie Energy
How Is ROE Calculated?
The formula for return on equity is:
Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity
So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Genie Energy is:
46% = US$71m ÷ US$153m (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2022).
The 'return' refers to a company's earnings over the last year. Another way to think of that is that for every $1 worth of equity, the company was able to earn $0.46 in profit.
What Has ROE Got To Do With Earnings Growth?
Thus far, we have learned that ROE measures how efficiently a company is generating its profits. Based on how much of its profits the company chooses to reinvest or "retain", we are then able to evaluate a company's future ability to generate profits. Assuming everything else remains unchanged, the higher the ROE and profit retention, the higher the growth rate of a company compared to companies that don't necessarily bear these characteristics.
Genie Energy's Earnings Growth And 46% ROE
To begin with, Genie Energy has a pretty high ROE which is interesting. Second, a comparison with the average ROE reported by the industry of 8.9% also doesn't go unnoticed by us. So, the substantial 58% net income growth seen by Genie Energy over the past five years isn't overly surprising.
Next, on comparing with the industry net income growth, we found that Genie Energy's growth is quite high when compared to the industry average growth of 6.5% in the same period, which is great to see.
The basis for attaching value to a company is, to a great extent, tied to its earnings growth. The investor should try to establish if the expected growth or decline in earnings, whichever the case may be, is priced in. Doing so will help them establish if the stock's future looks promising or ominous. Is Genie Energy fairly valued compared to other companies? These 3 valuation measures might help you decide.
Is Genie Energy Using Its Retained Earnings Effectively?
Genie Energy has a significant three-year median payout ratio of 53%, meaning the company only retains 47% of its income. This implies that the company has been able to achieve high earnings growth despite returning most of its profits to shareholders.
Besides, Genie Energy has been paying dividends for at least ten years or more. This shows that the company is committed to sharing profits with its shareholders.
Summary
Overall, we are quite pleased with Genie Energy's performance. Especially the high ROE, Which has contributed to the impressive growth seen in earnings. Despite the company reinvesting only a small portion of its profits, it still has managed to grow its earnings so that is appreciable. So far, we've only made a quick discussion around the company's earnings growth. You can do your own research on Genie Energy and see how it has performed in the past by looking at this FREE detailed graph of past earnings, revenue and cash flows.
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