G5 Entertainment (STO:G5EN) has had a great run on the share market with its stock up by a significant 18% over the last three months. Since the market usually pay for a company’s long-term fundamentals,st jude shrine of the west mass times we decided to study the company’s key performance indicators to see if they could be influencing the market. Particularly, we will be paying attention to

G5 Entertainment's

ROE today.

Return on equity or ROE is a key measure used to assess how efficiently a company's management is utilizing the company's capital. In short, ROE shows the profit each dollar generates with respect to its shareholder investments.

See our latest analysis for G5 Entertainment

How Is ROE Calculated?

The

formula for ROE

is:

Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity

So, based on the above formula, the ROE for G5 Entertainment is:

12% = kr45m ÷ kr386m (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2019).

The 'return' refers to a company's earnings over the last year. That means that for every SEK1 worth of shareholders' equity, the company generated SEK0.12 in profit.

Why Is ROE Important For Earnings Growth?

Thus far, we have learnt that ROE measures how efficiently a company is generating its profits. Depending on how much of these profits the company reinvests or "retains", and how effectively it does so, we are then able to assess a company’s earnings growth potential. Assuming everything else remains unchanged, the higher the ROE and profit retention, the higher the growth rate of a company compared to companies that don't necessarily bear these characteristics.

G5 Entertainment's Earnings Growth And 12% ROE

To begin with, G5 Entertainment seems to have a respectable ROE. Further, the company's ROE compares quite favorably to the industry average of 7.9%. Probably as a result of this, G5 Entertainment was able to see an impressive net income growth of 38% over the last five years. We reckon that there could also be other factors at play here. For instance, the company has a low payout ratio or is being managed efficiently.

We then compared G5 Entertainment's net income growth with the industry and we're pleased to see that the company's growth figure is higher when compared with the industry which has a growth rate of 30% in the same period.

OM:G5EN Past Earnings Growth May 4th 2020

The basis for attaching value to a company is, to a great extent, tied to its earnings growth. The investor should try to establish if the expected growth or decline in earnings, whichever the case may be, is priced in. By doing so, they will have an idea if the stock is headed into clear blue waters or if swampy waters await. Has the market priced in the future outlook for G5EN? You can find out in

our latest intrinsic value infographic research report.

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Is G5 Entertainment Using Its Retained Earnings Effectively?

G5 Entertainment has a really low three-year median payout ratio of 19%, meaning that it has the remaining 81% left over to reinvest into its business. This suggests that the management is reinvesting most of the profits to grow the business as evidenced by the growth seen by the company.

Additionally, G5 Entertainment has paid dividends over a period of three years which means that the company is pretty serious about sharing its profits with shareholders. Upon studying the latest analysts' consensus data, we found that the company is expected to keep paying out approximately 21% of its profits over the next three years. Regardless, the future ROE for G5 Entertainment is predicted to rise to 21% despite there being not much change expected in its payout ratio.

Conclusion

In total, we are pretty happy with G5 Entertainment's performance. Particularly, we like that the company is reinvesting heavily into its business, and at a high rate of return. Unsurprisingly, this has led to an impressive earnings growth. That being so, a study of the latest analyst forecasts show that the company is expected to see a slowdown in its future earnings growth. Are these analysts expectations based on the broad expectations for the industry, or on the company's fundamentals?

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