The ROCE of Abbott India Limited is 38.34%
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.
Abbott India Limited operates as a pharmaceutical company in India. It offers pharmaceutical products for various therapeutic areas, such as women's health, gastroenterology, metabolic, central nervous system, pain management, nutritional supplements, vitamins, insomnia, vaccines, consumer health, etc. The company was formerly known as Knoll Pharmaceuticals Limited and changed its name to Abbott India Limited in July 2002. Abbott India Limited was incorporated in 1944 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India. Abbott India Limited is a subsidiary of Abbott Capital India Limited.