Yahoo Finance Is Straumann Holding AG's (VTX:STMN) Stock's Recent Performance Being Led By Its Attractive Financial Prospects?
Straumann Holding (VTX:STMN) has had a great run on the share market with its stock up by a significant 14% over the last month. 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 Straumann Holding'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. Simply put, it is used to assess the profitability of a company in relation to its equity capital.
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How Do You Calculate Return On Equity?
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 Straumann Holding is:
28% = CHF490m ÷ CHF1.8b (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2022).
The 'return' is the yearly profit. One way to conceptualize this is that for each CHF1 of shareholders' capital it has, the company made CHF0.28 in profit.
Why Is ROE Important For 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 all else is equal, companies that have both a higher return on equity and higher profit retention are usually the ones that have a higher growth rate when compared to companies that don't have the same features.
Straumann Holding's Earnings Growth And 28% ROE
First thing first, we like that Straumann Holding has an impressive ROE. Secondly, even when compared to the industry average of 9.1% the company's ROE is quite impressive. Probably as a result of this, Straumann Holding was able to see a decent net income growth of 8.1% over the last five years.
We then performed a comparison between Straumann Holding's net income growth with the industry, which revealed that the company's growth is similar to the average industry growth of 8.1% in the same period.
Earnings growth is an important metric to consider when valuing a stock. It’s important for an investor to know whether the market has priced in the company's expected earnings growth (or decline). Doing so will help them establish if the stock's future looks promising or ominous. Is STMN fairly valued? This infographic on the company's intrinsic value has everything you need to know.
Is Straumann Holding Using Its Retained Earnings Effectively?
Straumann Holding has a healthy combination of a moderate three-year median payout ratio of 29% (or a retention ratio of 71%) and a respectable amount of growth in earnings as we saw above, meaning that the company has been making efficient use of its profits.
Besides, Straumann Holding has been paying dividends for at least ten years or more. This shows that the company is committed to sharing profits with its shareholders. Our latest analyst data shows that the future payout ratio of the company over the next three years is expected to be approximately 26%. As a result, Straumann Holding's ROE is not expected to change by much either, which we inferred from the analyst estimate of 24% for future ROE.
Conclusion
In total, we are pretty happy with Straumann Holding's performance. Specifically, we like that the company is reinvesting a huge chunk of its profits at a high rate of return. This of course has caused the company to see substantial growth in its earnings. Having said that, looking at the current analyst estimates, we found that the company's earnings are expected to gain momentum. Are these analysts expectations based on the broad expectations for the industry, or on the company's fundamentals? Click here to be taken to our analyst's forecasts page for the company.
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