Vision Values Holdings (HKG:862) Is Doing The Right Things To Multiply Its Share Price

Finding a business that has the potential to grow substantially is not easy, but it is possible if we look at a few key financial metrics. Typically, we'll want to notice a trend of growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and alongside that, an expanding base of capital employed. Ultimately, this demonstrates that it's a business that is reinvesting profits at increasing rates of return. So when we looked at Vision Values Holdings (HKG:862) and its trend of ROCE, we really liked what we saw.

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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 Vision Values Holdings:

Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)

0.046 = HK$19m ÷ (HK$644m - HK$228m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2024).

So, Vision Values Holdings has an ROCE of 4.6%. In absolute terms, that's a low return and it also under-performs the IT industry average of 6.7%.

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Historical performance is a great place to start when researching a stock so above you can see the gauge for Vision Values Holdings' ROCE against it's prior returns. If you want to delve into the historical earnings , check out these free graphs detailing revenue and cash flow performance of Vision Values Holdings.

What Does the ROCE Trend For Vision Values Holdings Tell Us?

Shareholders will be relieved that Vision Values Holdings has broken into profitability. While the business was unprofitable in the past, it's now turned things around and is earning 4.6% on its capital. While returns have increased, the amount of capital employed by Vision Values Holdings has remained flat over the period. So while we're happy that the business is more efficient, just keep in mind that could mean that going forward the business is lacking areas to invest internally for growth. So if you're looking for high growth, you'll want to see a business's capital employed also increasing.

On a side note, we noticed that the improvement in ROCE appears to be partly fueled by an increase in current liabilities. The current liabilities has increased to 35% of total assets, so the business is now more funded by the likes of its suppliers or short-term creditors. Keep an eye out for future increases because when the ratio of current liabilities to total assets gets particularly high, this can introduce some new risks for the business.

In Conclusion...

In summary, we're delighted to see that Vision Values Holdings has been able to increase efficiencies and earn higher rates of return on the same amount of capital. However the stock is down a substantial 88% in the last five years so there could be other areas of the business hurting its prospects. Still, it's worth doing some further research to see if the trends will continue into the future.

Since virtually every company faces some risks, it's worth knowing what they are, and we've spotted 2 warning signs for Vision Values Holdings (of which 1 is concerning!) that you should know about.

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