Week 2 Lecture 2 Flashcards
Profit Analysis: 40 Slides
What is the return on equity (ROE)?
It measures return from the perspective of the company’s stockholders specifically return to common stockholders
Who uses the ROE measure the most
Managers
Investors
How to compute ROE?
Net income / Average stockholders equity
What do we have to do to adjust our definition of ROE, specifically related to controlling stockholders?
ROE focuses on the return to the controlling or parent company’s stockholders, meaning only the financial elements related to the parent company should be used.
What do we have to do in order to adjust our ROE?
When calculating ROE (return on equity) for the controlling (parent company) you must exclude the share of income and equity belonging to those noncontrolling interests.
How to recalculate our ROE for the controlling (parent company) stockholders?
ROE =
Net income attributable to parent company shareholders / Average equity attributable to parent company shareholders
What is controlling interest?
Those who own common stock of the parent company.
What is non-controlling interest?
It those who own shares in one or more of the parent company’s subsidiaries
How can we adjust ROE when a company has a preferred stock?
What we know is that it measures return from the perspective of the company’s stockholders specifically return to common stockholders so we adjust the ROE to make sure it only accounts for common stockholders
How to adjust ROE and compute the ROE with a preferred stock?
ROCE =
Net income - preferred dividends / average stockholder’s equity - average preferred equity
What is a performance analysis?
It seeks to uncover the drivers of ROE and how those drivers have trended over time to better predict future performance.
How do we measure ROE drivers?
We can measure the ROE drivers using:
First:
The traditional dupont analysis and it breaks down ROE into three components : Profitability, productivity and leverage
Second: We can also measure ROE drivers with an operating focus that distinguishes between operating and non operating activities.
Where does the DuPont name come from (DuPont analysis)?
- The name comes from the Dupont corporation that started using this formula in the 1920s.
- Dupont explosives salesman Donaldson Brown invented this formula of separating ROE as an internal efficiency report in 1912.
What does the dupont analysis break ROE into what three components?
Return on assets
Financial Leverage
ROE = return on assets * financial leverage
What does ROE reflect both?
- Company performance (as measured by ROA)
- How assets are financed (financial leverage)
How do we make ROE higher?
When there is more debt and less equity for a given level of assets
What happens when we have greater debt?
Greater debt means higher risk for the company.
What is return on assets?
It measures return from the perspective of the entire company (at enterprise level)
How to compute ROA?
Net income/Average total assets
How to compute a high ROA?
The company must be profitable and manage assets (hold the lowest level of assets possible to achieve the highest profit)
What is financial leverage?
It measures the relative usage of debt versus equity to finance company’s assets.
Why is financial leverage important?
It is important because debt is a contractual obligation and a company’s failure to repay principal or interest can result in legal repercussions or even bankruptcy.
What does higher financial leverage mean?
It means higher debt and interest payments
Higher FL increases the probability of default and possible bankruptcy.
How to compute FL?
Average total assets/ Average stockholders equity
How can we further dissegregrate ROA?
Profit margins
Asset turnover
What is profit margin?
What a company earns on each sales dollar
How to compute PM?
Net income/Sales
What is asset turnover?
Sales generated from each dollar invested in assets.
How to compute asset turnover?
Sales/Average total assets
How can we increase ROA?
Increase profit margin :
- Increase profitability for a given level of assets
Increase AT:
- Reduce assets while still being to able to generate some profit level
What are two works that can describe how ROA are seprated (disegregated to)?
Profitability
Productivity
What are all the equations we might see that fall under profitability?
Gross profit margin
Operating expense margin
Profit margin