Managing Roc
Managing Roc
Managing Roc
Variable
Number of firms
Sales/Capital
Return on Capital
To break down return on capital into margin and sales turnover portions. After-tax ROC = after-tax
Explanation
Number of firms in the industry grouping.
Aggregate operating income, adjusted for effective taxes, divided by
aggregate revenues, across firms in the group
Aggregate revenues divided by aggregate invested capital, across firms in
the group. (Invested Capital = Book Debt + Book Equity - Cash)
Aggregate operating income, adjusted for effective taxes, divided by
aggregate invested capital, across firms in the groups.
turnover portions. After-tax ROC = after-tax Operating Margin * Sales/ Invested Capital
Why?
Law of large numbers?
Measure after-tax operating profitability of business
Measure of after-tax returns generated on invested capital. Can be compared to cost of capital to make
judgment on whether the company is earning excess returns.
Date updated: 5-Jan-24
Created by: Aswath Damodaran, [email protected]
What is this data? After-tax operating income and Free Cash Flow to Firm
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Companies in each industry: https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pc/datasets/indname.xls
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