The ROCE of Toshiba Corp. is 1.23%
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.
Toshiba Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides electronic devices and storage solutions worldwide. It operates through seven segments: Energy Systems & Solutions, Infrastructure Systems & Solutions, Building Solutions, Retail & Printing Solutions, Electronic Devices & Storage Solutions, Digital Solutions, and Others. The company provides energy systems and solutions, including nuclear, thermal, and renewable energy power generation systems; transmission and distribution, hydrogen energy, and heavy-ion therapy systems; and energy digital services. It also offers infrastructure systems and solutions, such as water supply and wastewater treatment, traffic control, defense and electronic, railway transportation, substation, broadcasting and network, security and automation, and motor/drive systems; and building solutions comprising elevators, escalators, building facilities, electrical construction materials, lighting equipment, airport ground lighting systems, stage and studio lighting systems, automotive light sources, industrial light sources and UV modules, air conditioners, multi systems for buildings, heat pump hot water supply systems, ventilating systems, refrigeration, and cold-chain equipment. In addition, the company provides retail and printing solutions, including POS systems, multifunction peripherals, automatic identification systems, and inkjet heads; electronic devices and storage solutions, such as semiconductors, analog integrated circuits (ICs), microcontrollers, automotive digital ICs, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, thermal print heads, and ceramics; and digital solutions comprising AI/analytics, ICT infrastructure, IoT solutions, security solutions, and managed services. Further, it offers rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, modules, and packs; and computers and tablets, visual products, and home appliances. Toshiba Corporation was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.