For example, a few years ago, a compelling study in the MIT Sloan Management Review
used ROA data (among other metrics) to compare the performances of external and internal candidates in CEO successions.
Do
you use ROA or some variation of it in your own stock analysis?
Not exact matches
I don't know how to add ROE and
ROA using my current system.
ROA gives an idea as to how efficient management is at
using its assets to generate earnings.
The same principle applies in reverse, however, making these leveraged buyouts potentially very risky; if the acquired company's
ROA is lower than the cost of the debt
used to buy it, then the private equity fund's ROE is less than if hadn't
used debt.
The debt
used in buyouts has a relatively fixed cost, so if a private equity fund's return on assets (
ROA) is greater than this cost, the fund's return on equity (ROE) is higher than if it hadn't borrowed money.
The return on Assets (
ROA) and return on equity (ROE) are often
used metrics to measure the returns generated by a company.
A company with higher
ROA is better for investment as it means that the company's management is efficient in
using its assets to generate earnings.
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).
On the basis that «current profitability and cash flow realizations provide information about the firm's ability to generate funds internally,» Piotroski
uses four variables to measure these performance - related factors:
ROA, CFO, [Delta]
ROA, and ACCRUAL:
The lieutenant governor wants to accelerate California's plans to produce energy from renewable sources, take even more gas - powered cars off the
roaed, and continue
using the cap - and - trade program to cut industrial pollution.