The ROCE of Charles & Colvard Ltd is -56.37%
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.
charles & colvard, ltd. is the original and leading worldwide source of forever classic™, forever brilliant®, and forever one™ moissanite, a created gem used in fine jewelry. moissanite is near-colorless, with more fire, brilliance, and sparkle than a fine diamond, but retails for only a fraction of the cost. charles & colvard® produces moissanite gems from silicon carbide (sic) crystals, which it sells loose and set in jewelry at wholesale to distributors, manufacturers, and retailers and at retail to end consumers through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries moissanite.com, llc and charles & colvard direct, llc., d.b.a. lulu avenue®. moissanite jewelry is sold in fine jewelry stores, on domestic and international shopping networks, in catalogs and home parties, and online.