The ROCE of Applied Optoelectronics Inc is -23.81%
Return on capital employed (ROCE) is a financial ratio that measures a company’s profitability and the efficiency with which its capital is used.
= EBIT / (assets - current liabilities)
Return on capital employed (ROCE) is the total amount of capital that a company has utilized in order to generate profits. It is the sum of shareholders' equity and debt liabilities. It can be simplified as total assets minus current liabilities.
ROCE is especially useful when comparing the performance of companies in capital-intensive sectors. ROCE considers debt and other liabilities as well compared to other fundamentals which only analyze profitability related to a company’s common equity. This provides a better indication of financial performance for companies with significant debt. For a company, the ROCE trend over the years is also an important indicator of performance. In general, investors tend to favor companies with stable and rising ROCE numbers over companies where ROCE is volatile and bounces around from one year to the next.
Instead of using capital employed at an arbitrary point in time, analysts and investors often calculate ROCE based on the average capital employed (ROACE), which takes the average of opening and closing capital employed for the time period.
applied optoelectronics, inc. | nasdaq: aaoi aoi is a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber optic networking products. we primarily serve three growing end-markets: cable television broadband, fiber-to-the-home, and internet data centers. we are vertically integrated with a product portfolio from laser chips, components, sub-assemblies and modules, to complete turn-key equipment. all three of our end-markets are driven by bandwidth demand fueled by the growth of network connected devices, such as video traffic, cloud computing and online social networking. to address this increased demand, catv and telecommunications service providers are investing to improve their networks in competition to deliver voice, video, and data services to their subscribers. rising bandwidth consumption is also driving demand for higher speed server connections in the internet data center market. as a result of these trends, fiber optic networking technology has become fundamental in all three of our ta