Investors Will Want Yamami's (TSE:2820) Growth In ROCE To Persist
If you're looking for a multi-bagger, there's a few things to keep an eye out for. In a perfect world, we'd like to see a company investing more capital into its business and ideally the returns earned from that capital are also increasing. This shows us that it's a compounding machine, able to continually reinvest its earnings back into the business and generate higher returns. With that in mind, we've noticed some promising trends at Yamami (TSE:2820) so let's look a bit deeper.
Return On Capital Employed (ROCE): What Is It?
If you haven't worked with ROCE before, it measures the 'return' (pre-tax profit) a company generates from capital employed in its business. The formula for this calculation on Yamami is:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.16 = JP¥1.9b ÷ (JP¥16b - JP¥4.0b) (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2025).
So, Yamami has an ROCE of 16%. In absolute terms, that's a satisfactory return, but compared to the Food industry average of 7.3% it's much better.
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In the above chart we have measured Yamami's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you're interested, you can view the analysts predictions in our free analyst report for Yamami .
The Trend Of ROCE
Yamami has not disappointed with their ROCE growth. The figures show that over the last five years, ROCE has grown 366% whilst employing roughly the same amount of capital. So it's likely that the business is now reaping the full benefits of its past investments, since the capital employed hasn't changed considerably. The company is doing well in that sense, and it's worth investigating what the management team has planned for long term growth prospects.
What We Can Learn From Yamami's ROCE
In summary, we're delighted to see that Yamami has been able to increase efficiencies and earn higher rates of return on the same amount of capital. Since the stock has returned a staggering 140% to shareholders over the last five years, it looks like investors are recognizing these changes. In light of that, we think it's worth looking further into this stock because if Yamami can keep these trends up, it could have a bright future ahead.
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