Air Products and Chemicals (NYSE:APD) has had a rough three months with its share price down 8.2%. However, the company's fundamentals look pretty decent, and long-term financials are usually aligned with future market price movements. Specifically, we decided to study Air Products and Chemicals' ROE in this article.
Return on Equity or ROE is a test of how effectively a company is growing its value and managing investors' money. Put another way, it reveals the company's success at turning shareholder investments into profits.
How Is ROE Calculated?
Return on equity can be calculated by using the formula:
Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity
So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Air Products and Chemicals is:
15% = US$2.4b ÷ US$16b (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2023).
The 'return' refers to a company's earnings over the last year. One way to conceptualize this is that for each $1 of shareholders' capital it has, the company made $0.15 in profit.
Why Is ROE Important For Earnings Growth?
So far, we've learned that ROE is a measure of a company's profitability. Depending on how much of these profits the company reinvests or "retains", and how effectively it does so, we are then able to assess a company's earnings growth potential. 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.
Air Products and Chemicals' Earnings Growth And 15% ROE
To begin with, Air Products and Chemicals seems to have a respectable ROE. Even when compared to the industry average of 13% the company's ROE looks quite decent. Consequently, this likely laid the ground for the decent growth of 6.6% seen over the past five years by Air Products and Chemicals.
As a next step, we compared Air Products and Chemicals' net income growth with the industry and were disappointed to see that the company's growth is lower than the industry average growth of 14% 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. Has the market priced in the future outlook for APD? You can find out in our latest intrinsic value infographic research report.
Is Air Products and Chemicals Efficiently Re-investing Its Profits?
Air Products and Chemicals has a significant three-year median payout ratio of 64%, meaning that it is left with only 36% to reinvest into its business. This implies that the company has been able to achieve decent earnings growth despite returning most of its profits to shareholders.
Moreover, Air Products and Chemicals is determined to keep sharing its profits with shareholders which we infer from its long history of paying a dividend for at least ten years. Upon studying the latest analysts' consensus data, we found that the company's future payout ratio is expected to drop to 51% over the next three years. The fact that the company's ROE is expected to rise to 19% over the same period is explained by the drop in the payout ratio.
Conclusion
On the whole, we do feel that Air Products and Chemicals has some positive attributes. Its earnings have grown respectably as we saw earlier, which was likely due to the company reinvesting its earnings at a pretty high rate of return. However, given the high ROE, we do think that the company is reinvesting a small portion of its profits. This could likely be preventing the company from growing to its full extent. 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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Air Products and Chemicals(nyse:APD)は、株価が8.2%下落し、3か月間苦戦しています。しかし、同社のファンダメンタルズはかなり良好であり、長期的な財務面は通常、将来の市場価格の動きと一致します。特に、この記事では、Air Products and ChemicalsのROEを調べることにしました。
Return on Equity(ROE)とは、企業の価値を効果的に成長させ、株主の投資を利益に変える能力を示すものです。つまり、株主の投資を利益に変えることができているかどうかを測る指標です。
ROEの計算方法は?
ROEは、次の式を使用して計算できます。
Return on Equity = 当期純利益 ÷ 株主資本
したがって、上記の式に基づいて、Air Products and ChemicalsのROEは次のとおりです。
まず、Air Products and ChemicalsのROEはかなり良好であるようです。業種平均の13%と比較しても、同社のROEはかなり良好に見えます。したがって、これがAir Products and Chemicalsが過去5年間に見てきた6.6%のまずまずの成長の土台を築いたと考えられます。
次に、当社はAir Products and Chemicalsの当期純利益の業種との比較を行いましたが、この期間における同社の成長が業種平均成長率の14%よりも低いことがわかり失望しました。
Air Products and Chemicalsは、その利益をうまく再投資しているのでしょうか?
Air Products and Chemicalsは、3年間の中央値の配当利益率が64%と高いため、ビジネス再投資に36%しか残らないことがわかります。これは、株主に利益の大部分を返却しながら、同社がまずまずの収益成長を達成できたことを意味します。
さらに、Air Products and Chemicalsは、少なくとも10年間配当金を支払っていることから、引き続き株主と利益を共有することを決意しています。最新のアナリストのコンセンサスデータを調べたところ、同社の将来の配当利益率が次の3年間で51%に下がることがわかりました。同社のROEが同じ期間に19%に上昇する理由は、配当利益率の低下によるものです。
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全体的に、Air Products and Chemicalsにはいくつかのポジティブな属性があると考えます。今までにも述べたように、同社の収益はかなり増加しており、これは同社がかなり高い利率で収益を再投資しているためである可能性があります。ただし、高いROEを考慮すると、同社が利益の一部しか再投資していない可能性があるため、同社がその全体像の中で成長することを妨げている可能性があります。その一方で、現在のアナリストの見通しを見ると、同社の収益は勢いを増していると考えられます。これらのアナリストの期待は、業界全体の期待に基づいているのか、同社のファンダメンタルズに基づいているのかを確認するには、ここをクリックして当社のアナリスト予測ページにアクセスしてください。