Sabre Insurance Group plc's (LON:SBRE) Stock Has Shown Weakness Lately But Financial Prospects Look Decent: Is The Market Wrong?
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It is hard to get excited after looking at Sabre Insurance Group's (LON:SBRE) recent performance, when its stock has declined 8.3% over the past month. But if you pay close attention, you might find that its key financial indicators look quite decent, which could mean that the stock could potentially rise in the long-term given how markets usually reward more resilient long-term fundamentals. Specifically, we decided to study Sabre Insurance Group's ROE in this article.
Return on Equity or ROE is a test of how effectively a company is growing its value and managing investors’ money. Simply put, it is used to assess the profitability of a company in relation to its equity capital.
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How Do You Calculate Return On Equity?
The formula for ROE is:
Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity
So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Sabre Insurance Group is:
12% = UK￡29m ÷ UK￡239m (Based on the trailing twelve months to June 2024).
The 'return' is the profit over the last twelve months. Another way to think of that is that for every ￡1 worth of equity, the company was able to earn ￡0.12 in profit.
What Has ROE Got To Do With Earnings Growth?
Thus far, we have learned that ROE measures how efficiently a company is generating its profits. Based on how much of its profits the company chooses to reinvest or "retain", we are then able to evaluate a company's future ability to generate profits. Assuming all else is equal, companies that have both a higher return on equity and higher profit retention are usually the ones that have a higher growth rate when compared to companies that don't have the same features.
A Side By Side comparison of Sabre Insurance Group's Earnings Growth And 12% ROE
To begin with, Sabre Insurance Group seems to have a respectable ROE. And on comparing with the industry, we found that the the average industry ROE is similar at 14%. However, while Sabre Insurance Group has a pretty respectable ROE, its five year net income decline rate was 25% . Based on this, we feel that there might be other reasons which haven't been discussed so far in this article that could be hampering the company's growth. For example, it could be that the company has a high payout ratio or the business has allocated capital poorly, for instance.
Furthermore, even when compared to the industry, which has been shrinking its earnings at a rate of 21% over the last few years, we found that Sabre Insurance Group's performance is pretty disappointing, as it suggests that the company has been shrunk its earnings at a rate faster than the industry.
