If you're looking for a multi-bagger, there's a few things to keep an eye out for. Amongst other things, we'll want to see two things; firstly, a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an expansion in the company's amount of capital employed. Put simply, these types of businesses are compounding machines, meaning they are continually reinvesting their earnings at ever-higher rates of return. So on that note, Daimaru Enawin (TSE:9818) looks quite promising in regards to its trends of return on capital.
For those that aren't sure what ROCE is, it measures the amount of pre-tax profits a company can generate from the capital employed in its business. Analysts use this formula to calculate it for Daimaru Enawin:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.075 = JP¥1.3b ÷ (JP¥22b - JP¥4.6b) (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2025).
Therefore, Daimaru Enawin has an ROCE of 7.5%. Ultimately, that's a low return and it under-performs the Specialty Retail industry average of 10%.
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Historical performance is a great place to start when researching a stock so above you can see the gauge for Daimaru Enawin's ROCE against it's prior returns. If you'd like to look at how Daimaru Enawin has performed in the past in other metrics, you can view this free graph of Daimaru Enawin's past earnings, revenue and cash flow.
Daimaru Enawin's ROCE growth is quite impressive. The figures show that over the last five years, ROCE has grown 21% whilst employing roughly the same amount of capital. So our take on this is that the business has increased efficiencies to generate these higher returns, all the while not needing to make any additional investments. The company is doing well in that sense, and it's worth investigating what the management team has planned for long term growth prospects.
To bring it all together, Daimaru Enawin has done well to increase the returns it's generating from its capital employed. Since the stock has only returned 32% to shareholders over the last five years, the promising fundamentals may not be recognized yet by investors. So exploring more about this stock could uncover a good opportunity, if the valuation and other metrics stack up.
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