Are Manaksia Steels Limited's (NSE:MANAKSTEEL) Mixed Financials Driving The Negative Sentiment?

Simply Wall St · 04/10 00:33

Manaksia Steels (NSE:MANAKSTEEL) has had a rough three months with its share price down 24%. It seems that the market might have completely ignored the positive aspects of the company's fundamentals and decided to weigh-in more on the negative aspects. Fundamentals usually dictate market outcomes so it makes sense to study the company's financials. Specifically, we decided to study Manaksia Steels' ROE in this article.

Return on Equity or ROE is a test of how effectively a company is growing its value and managing investors’ money. In simpler terms, it measures the profitability of a company in relation to shareholder's equity.

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How Do You Calculate Return On Equity?

The formula for ROE is:

Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders' Equity

So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Manaksia Steels is:

3.2% = ₹95m ÷ ₹3.0b (Based on the trailing twelve months to December 2024).

The 'return' refers to a company's earnings over the last year. That means that for every ₹1 worth of shareholders' equity, the company generated ₹0.03 in profit.

See our latest analysis for Manaksia Steels

What Has ROE Got To Do With Earnings Growth?

Thus far, we have learned that ROE measures how efficiently a company is generating its profits. We now need to evaluate how much profit the company reinvests or "retains" for future growth which then gives us an idea about the growth potential of the company. Generally speaking, other things being equal, firms with a high return on equity and profit retention, have a higher growth rate than firms that don’t share these attributes.

Manaksia Steels' Earnings Growth And 3.2% ROE

It is hard to argue that Manaksia Steels' ROE is much good in and of itself. Not just that, even compared to the industry average of 11%, the company's ROE is entirely unremarkable. Thus, the low net income growth of 2.5% seen by Manaksia Steels over the past five years could probably be the result of it having a lower ROE.

We then compared Manaksia Steels' net income growth with the industry and found that the company's growth figure is lower than the average industry growth rate of 28% in the same 5-year period, which is a bit concerning.

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NSEI:MANAKSTEEL Past Earnings Growth April 10th 2025

Earnings growth is an important metric to consider when valuing a stock. What investors need to determine next is if the expected earnings growth, or the lack of it, is already built into the share price. Doing so will help them establish if the stock's future looks promising or ominous. If you're wondering about Manaksia Steels''s valuation, check out this gauge of its price-to-earnings ratio , as compared to its industry.

Is Manaksia Steels Efficiently Re-investing Its Profits?

Manaksia Steels doesn't pay any regular dividends, which means that it is retaining all of its earnings. However, this doesn't explain the low earnings growth the company has seen. So there could be some other explanation in that regard. For instance, the company's business may be deteriorating.

Summary

In total, we're a bit ambivalent about Manaksia Steels' performance. Even though it appears to be retaining most of its profits, given the low ROE, investors may not be benefitting from all that reinvestment after all. The low earnings growth suggests our theory correct. Wrapping up, we would proceed with caution with this company and one way of doing that would be to look at the risk profile of the business. Our risks dashboard would have the 4 risks we have identified for Manaksia Steels.