The ROCE of CHS Inc. is 7.19%
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.
chs inc. (www.chsinc.com) is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the united states. diversified in energy, grains and foods, chs is committed to helping its customers, farmer-owners and other stakeholders grow their businesses through its domestic and global operations. chs supplies energy, crop nutrients, grain marketing services, livestock feed, food and food ingredients, along with business solutions including insurance, financial and risk management services. the company operates petroleum refineries/pipelines and manufactures, markets and distributes cenex® brand refined fuels, lubricants, propane and renewable energy products. chs preferred stock is listed on the nasdaq at chscp.