If you're looking for a multi-bagger, there's a few things to keep an eye out for. Ideally, a business will show two trends; firstly a growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and secondly, an increasing amount of capital employed. Basically this means that a company has profitable initiatives that it can continue to reinvest in, which is a trait of a compounding machine. So when we looked at HanJung Natural Connectivity System.co.Ltd (KOSDAQ:107640) and its trend of ROCE, we really liked what we saw.
If you haven't worked with ROCE before, it measures the 'return' (pre-tax profit) a company generates from capital employed in its business. Analysts use this formula to calculate it for HanJung Natural Connectivity System.co.Ltd:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.052 = ₩7.2b ÷ (₩227b - ₩88b) (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2025).
So, HanJung Natural Connectivity System.co.Ltd has an ROCE of 5.2%. In absolute terms, that's a low return and it also under-performs the Auto Components industry average of 7.3%.
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Above you can see how the current ROCE for HanJung Natural Connectivity System.co.Ltd compares to its prior returns on capital, but there's only so much you can tell from the past. If you're interested, you can view the analysts predictions in our free analyst report for HanJung Natural Connectivity System.co.Ltd .
Even though ROCE is still low in absolute terms, it's good to see it's heading in the right direction. Over the last one year, returns on capital employed have risen substantially to 5.2%. The amount of capital employed has increased too, by 35%. This can indicate that there's plenty of opportunities to invest capital internally and at ever higher rates, a combination that's common among multi-baggers.
In summary, it's great to see that HanJung Natural Connectivity System.co.Ltd can compound returns by consistently reinvesting capital at increasing rates of return, because these are some of the key ingredients of those highly sought after multi-baggers. And with the stock having performed exceptionally well over the last five years, these patterns are being accounted for by investors. Therefore, we think it would be worth your time to check if these trends are going to continue.
HanJung Natural Connectivity System.co.Ltd does come with some risks though, we found 2 warning signs in our investment analysis, and 1 of those is significant...
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