The ROCE of Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Co. Plc is -16.51%
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.
Schroders Investment Trusts - Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company plc is a closed ended equity mutual fund launched by Schroder Unit Trusts Limited. The fund is co-managed by Schroder Investment Management Limited and Schroder Investment Management (Singapore) Limited. It invests in the public equity markets of Asia Pacific countries excluding Japan. The fund seeks to invest in companies operating across diversified sectors. It also uses financial derivatives to invest in stocks of companies. The fund primarily invests in stocks of small-cap and mid-cap companies. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan. The fund was formerly known as Schroders Investment Trusts - Asian Total Return Investment Company plc. Schroders Investment Trusts - Schroder Asian Total Return Investment Company plc was formed on November 26, 1987 and is domiciled in the United Kingdom.