Let's take a look at a backtest of
the Return on Assets ratio to see how it performs.
Not exact matches
She relies
on a database of 1,000 simulations of future
returns to conclude that, 75 years from now, a Social Security trust fund portfolio that includes stocks will produce a healthy
ratio of
assets to benefits, while a trust fund consisting of only bonds will be completely exhausted.
Finally, the
ratio of net income to total
assets is a strong indicator of whether the company is getting a favorable rate of
return on assets.
Operating Earnings Yield (ttm): 7.2 (11/15 points) Net Income (ttm): $ 293 M Gross Profit (ttm): $ 868 M Total
Assets: $ 3518 M Gross Profitability
Ratio = Gross Profit / Total
Assets: 25 % (8/18 points) Cash
Return On Invested Capital (CROIC)(ttm): 12 % Return on Invested Capital (ROIC): 13
On Invested Capital (CROIC)(ttm): 12 %
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC): 13
on Invested Capital (ROIC): 13 %
In an attempt to cast light
on this issue, my colleagues at Plexus
Asset Management have updated a previous multi-year comparison of the price - earnings (PE)
ratios of the S&P 500 Index (as a measure of stock valuations) and the forward real
returns (considering total
returns, i.e. capital movements plus dividends).
Some
assets generally have a large
return on investment
ratio while other have lower margins.
Among the variables he examined:
return on assets, current
ratio, cash flow from operations, change in gross margin, and change in
asset turnover.
Tobias found that gross profit to
asset ratio was superior to Joel Greenblatt's
return on invested capital since it avoided picking up small companies with large cash holdings relative to their size.
A company with a high
return on net
assets ratio, profit margin, or
asset turnover relative to its industry median tends to have greater mean reversion in these measures.
Joel Greenblatt has described why he used ROC in place of the commonly used financial
ratios like ROE (
Return on equity) or ROA (
Return on assets).
His variables capture profitability (positive earnings, positive cash flows from operations, increasing
return on assets and negative accruals), operating efficiency (increasing gross margins and
asset turnover) and liquidity (decreasing debt, increasing current
ratio, and no equity issuance).
Operating Earnings Yield (ttm): 5.2 % (5/15 points) Net Income (ttm): $ -4169 M Gross Profit (ttm): $ 12348 M Total
Assets: $ 64351 M Gross Profitability
Ratio = GP / Total
Assets: 19 % (6/18 points) Cash
Return On Invested Capital (CROIC)(tttm): 9 % Return on Invested Capital (ROIC): -9
On Invested Capital (CROIC)(tttm): 9 %
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC): -9
on Invested Capital (ROIC): -9 %
Based
on current positioning, we expect the All
Asset strategies to benefit from the following
return tailwinds: a stable to rising breakeven inflation rate, appreciating EM currencies, convergence of EM - to - U.S. cyclically adjusted price / earnings (CAPE)
ratios toward longer - term averages, and appreciation of global value stocks from today's elevated discounts toward longer - term norms.
Operating Earnings Yield (ttm): 5.0 % (5/15 points) Net Income (ttm): $ 5309 M Gross Profit (ttm): $ 21176 M Total
Assets: $ 70786 M Gross Profitability
Ratio = Gross Profit / Total
Assets: 30 % (8/18 points) Cash
Return On Invested Capital (CROIC)(tttm): 22 % Return on Invested Capital (ROIC): 12
On Invested Capital (CROIC)(tttm): 22 %
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC): 12
on Invested Capital (ROIC): 12 %
Piotroski believes these
ratios are important because they «reflect two key constructs underlying a decomposition of
return on assets.»
Return on Total
Assets Ratios provide valuable information to value investors searching for quality companies.
Tobias Carlisle, in Deep Value (affiliate link) provides evidence that this may be the best
Return On Total Assets Ratio to single out stocks that can provide above average rates of r
Return On Total
Assets Ratio to single out stocks that can provide above average rates of
returnreturn.
The
asset allocation backtesting tool calculates portfolio
returns (end balance, CAGR, IRR), risk characteristics (standard deviation, Sharpe
ratio, Sortino
ratio, maximum drawdown), and rolling
returns based
on monthly data.
These anomalies are: financial distress; O - score (probability of bankruptcy); net stock issuance; composite stock issuance; total accruals; net operating
assets; momentum; gross profitability;
asset growth;
return on assets; and, investment - to -
assets ratio.
Minimum quick and current
ratios (liquidity) Minimum
Return on Assets and
Return on Equity (profitability) Minimum equity, minimum working capital and maximum debt to worth (leverage)
Common characteristics associated with stocks selling at less than 66 % of net current
asset value are low price / earnings
ratios, low price / sales
ratios and low prices in relation to «normal» earnings; i.e., what the company would earn if it earned the average
return on equity for a given industry or the average neti ncome margin
on sales for such industry.
One should also consider the leverage potential implied — EIIB could almost quadruple its B / S, still be considered a very safe bank (with a near 20 % Equity / Total
Assets Ratio) and presumably achieve a radical transformation of its P&L and
Return on Equity.
Forward P / E > 0 Price / Cash < 3 Price / Free Cash Flow < 15 Debt / Equity <.4 Price / Book < 1 Current
Ratio > 3
Return on Assets > 0 %
Return on Equity > 0 % Annual EPS Growth Next 5 Years > 0
Return on invested capital (ROIC) This is a
ratio that can be used to assess how effectively a company squeezes profits from the
assets it controls and owns.
It is one of the two elements that determine the
return on assets, the other element being the sales turnover
ratio.
On the one hand, the average funding
ratio (
assets as a percentage of the present value of future obligations) is below 80 % because of inadequate contributions by sponsors (states and municipalities) and poor investment
returns since the collapse of the technology bubble in 2000.
Compare yourself to publicly traded companies by calculating their quick
ratio,
return on assets, and profit margin.
For example, under profitability
ratios, there are gross profitability
ratio, net profitability
ratio,
return on assets,
return on investment, earning per share, investment turnover, sales per employee.
This online portfolio backtesting tool allows you to construct a portfolio based
on the selected
asset class allocation to analyze and backtest portfolio
returns, risk characteristics (Sharpe
ratio, Sortino
ratio), standard deviation, annual
returns and rolling
returns.
Returning to
asset managers, % of AUM is the key absolute valuation metric, and I believe Price / Sales (based
on operating profit margins) is the best stock specific valuation
ratio.
Operating Earnings Yield (ttm): 5.9 % (7/15 points) Net Income (ttm): $ 1601 M Gross Profit (ttm): $ 6660 M Total
Assets: $ 19858 M Gross Profitability
Ratio = GP / Total
Assets: 34 % (11/18 points) Cash
Return On Invested Capital (CROIC)(tttm): 13 % Return on Invested Capital (ROIC): 12
On Invested Capital (CROIC)(tttm): 13 %
Return on Invested Capital (ROIC): 12
on Invested Capital (ROIC): 12 %
The second model assumes that in the long run all
assets should have the same Sharpe
ratio, and calculates expected
returns based
on the realized volatility of each
asset.
We used three measures to capture the pertinent information:
return on equity (ROE) to reflect growth and profitability; the debt coverage
ratio to represent the likelihood of default; and the accruals - to - average - total -
assets measure defined by Sloan (1996) to quantify possible accounting red flags.12 To arrive at company - specific quality measures, we used the simple arithmetic average of each stock's percentile rank for these three variables.
Drafted research report
on local branch, including analysis
on key financial
ratios and
asset return ratios for cut cost, opportunities to improve.
I prepared spreadsheets showing various scenarios of potential, probable, and possible
return on investment and capitalization rates [a measure of the
ratio between the net operating income produced by an
asset and its capital cost rate].
Jeri Frank: As we complete the initial development, owners and
asset managers will be able to quickly generate key analytics like loan - to - value, debt coverage
ratio, occupancy and
return on investment, to name a few.