If you're not sure where to start when looking for the next multi-bagger, there are a few key trends you should 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. Ultimately, this demonstrates that it's a business that is reinvesting profits at increasing rates of return. Having said that, from a first glance at Genting Singapore (SGX:G13) we aren't jumping out of our chairs at how returns are trending, but let's have a deeper look.

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 Genting Singapore is:

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

0.086 = S$728m ÷ (S$9.2b - S$709m) (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2024).

Therefore, Genting Singapore has an ROCE of 8.6%. In absolute terms, that's a low return, but it's much better than the Hospitality industry average of 3.7%.

In the above chart we have measured Genting Singapore's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you'd like to see what analysts are forecasting going forward, you should check out our free analyst report for Genting Singapore .

So How Is Genting Singapore's ROCE Trending?

Over the past five years, Genting Singapore's ROCE and capital employed have both remained mostly flat. It's not uncommon to see this when looking at a mature and stable business that isn't re-investing its earnings because it has likely passed that phase of the business cycle. So don't be surprised if Genting Singapore doesn't end up being a multi-bagger in a few years time. That being the case, it makes sense that Genting Singapore has been paying out 72% of its earnings to its shareholders. If the company is in fact lacking growth opportunities, that's one of the viable alternatives for the money.

Our Take On Genting Singapore's ROCE

In summary, Genting Singapore isn't compounding its earnings but is generating stable returns on the same amount of capital employed. Additionally, the stock's total return to shareholders over the last five years has been flat, which isn't too surprising. Therefore based on the analysis done in this article, we don't think Genting Singapore has the makings of a multi-bagger.

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