Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech's (SHSE:605016) stock is up by a considerable 7.1% over the past week. Given the company's impressive performance, we decided to study its financial indicators more closely as a company's financial health over the long-term usually dictates market outcomes. In this article, we decided to focus on Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech's ROE.

Return on equity or ROE is a key measure used to assess how efficiently a company's management is utilizing the company's capital. In short, ROE shows the profit each dollar generates with respect to its shareholder investments.

How Is ROE Calculated?

The formula for ROE is:

Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity

So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech is:

13% = CN¥193m ÷ CN¥1.5b (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2023).

The 'return' refers to a company's earnings over the last year. Another way to think of that is that for every CN¥1 worth of equity, the company was able to earn CN¥0.13 in profit.

Why Is ROE Important For Earnings Growth?

We have already established that ROE serves as an efficient profit-generating gauge for a company's future earnings. 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. Generally speaking, other things being equal, firms with a high return on equity and profit retention, have a higher growth rate than firms that don't share these attributes.

Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech's Earnings Growth And 13% ROE

To start with, Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech's ROE looks acceptable. Further, the company's ROE compares quite favorably to the industry average of 8.2%. This probably laid the ground for Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech's significant 21% net income growth seen over the past five years. We reckon that there could also be other factors at play here. For instance, the company has a low payout ratio or is being managed efficiently.

Next, on comparing with the industry net income growth, we found that Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech's growth is quite high when compared to the industry average growth of 6.8% 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. One good indicator of expected earnings growth is the P/E ratio which determines the price the market is willing to pay for a stock based on its earnings prospects. So, you may want to check if Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech is trading on a high P/E or a low P/E, relative to its industry.

Is Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech Making Efficient Use Of Its Profits?

Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech has a really low three-year median payout ratio of 13%, meaning that it has the remaining 87% left over to reinvest into its business. So it seems like the management is reinvesting profits heavily to grow its business and this reflects in its earnings growth number.

While Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech has been growing its earnings, it only recently started to pay dividends which likely means that the company decided to impress new and existing shareholders with a dividend. Existing analyst estimates suggest that the company's future payout ratio is expected to drop to 2.3% over the next three years. The fact that the company's ROE is expected to rise to 18% over the same period is explained by the drop in the payout ratio.

Summary

In total, we are pretty happy with Shandong Bailong Chuangyuan Bio-Tech's performance. In particular, it's great to see that the company is investing heavily into its business and along with a high rate of return, that has resulted in a sizeable growth in its earnings. With that said, the latest industry analyst forecasts reveal that the company's earnings are expected to accelerate. 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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