Return on Capital Employed definition

Return on Capital Employed. (“ROCE”) means operating income before depreciation and amortization (excluding asset impairments, non-cash asset write-downs and inventory valuation gains or losses) divided by average Capital Employed during the Period (averages calculated using 5-quarter end balances for the measurement period).
Return on Capital Employed or ROCE, is defined as (i) operating income before depreciation and amortization divided by (ii) the sum of shareholders’ equity, plus minority interest, plus debt, less goodwill and intangible assets, less cash and marketable securities at the beginning of the Performance Period; provided, that such metric will be calculated to exclude (a) any gains or losses attributable to FIFO inventory valuation (including lower of cost or market adjustments), (b) the effects of impairment expense related to intangible assets, including goodwill, and (c) non-cash asset writedowns; provided, further, the Committee may exclude the impact of any of the following events or occurrences (with respect to the Company or any member of the Peer Group) which the Committee determines should appropriately be excluded: (A) asset write-downs; (B) litigation, claims, judgments or settlements; (C) the effect of changes in tax law or other such laws or regulations affecting reported results; (D) accruals for reorganization and restructuring programs; (E) any extraordinary, unusual or nonrecurring items as described in the Accounting Standards Codification Topic 225, as the same may be amended or superseded from time to time; (F) any change in accounting principles as defined in the Accounting Standards Codification Topic 250, as the same may be amended or superseded from time to time; (G) any loss from a discontinued operation as described in the Accounting Standards Codification Topic 360, as the same may be amended or superseded from time to time; (H) adjustments to ROCE of the Company or any member (or multiple members) of the Peer Group to reflect mergers, acquisitions, purchases or similar transactions as necessary to prevent the increase or decrease of the ROCE of the Company or member of the Peer Group related to the merger, acquisition, purchase or similar transaction; (I) third party expenses associated with acquisitions; and (J) to the extent set forth with reasonable particularity in connection with the establishment of performance goals, any other extraordinary events or occurrences identified by the Committee.
Return on Capital Employed or “ROCE” means the Relevant Company’s EBIT for the Current Period, divided by the Relevant Company’s Capital Employed.

Examples of Return on Capital Employed in a sentence

  • The two performance measures are Return on Capital Employed and Total Shareholder Return.

  • Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)ROCE is a non-GAAP financial measure that management uses to analyze operating performance and the efficiency of Suncor's capital allocation process.

  • The Company uses Return on Capital Employed (“ROCE”) as a measure of long-term operating performance to measure how effectively management utilises the capital it has been provided.

  • The vesting of the restricted stock units is deferred for three years and is subject to a Return on Capital Employed (“ROCE”) performance hurdle being met.

  • In column (7) we use profitability as the dependent variable as measured by ROCE (Return on Capital Employed) and show again a positive association with management.


More Definitions of Return on Capital Employed

Return on Capital Employed. (“ROCE”) means operating income before depreciation and amortization (excluding asset impairments, certain non-cash asset write-downs and inventory valuation gains or losses and other extraordinary items as deemed appropriate by the Company and approved by the Compensation Committee) divided by average Capital Employed during the Period (averages calculated using 5-quarter end balances for the measurement period).
Return on Capital Employed means, with respect to a Business Unit for each year of an Award Cycle, income before income taxes and interest expense of such Business Unit for such year, divided by Capital Employed of such Business Unit for such year.
Return on Capital Employed means for any year the ratio calculated by dividing (i) the sum of net earnings plus after-tax interest expense for such year by (ii) the sum of total stockholder’s equity plus debt (which includes short-term borrowings, current maturities of long-term debt, and long-term debt) as of December 31 of such year.
Return on Capital Employed means the ratio of Net Income plus tax-effected interest expense to long-term Debt plus stockholder equity.
Return on Capital Employed or “ROCE” means in respect of any period the consolidated operating profit of the Company before goodwill, amortisation and exceptional items for that period expressed as a percentage of the opening and closing capital employed for that period as recorded in the Annual Report(s) of the Company for the period concerned;
Return on Capital Employed or “ROCE” for the Company and each of the Peer Companies for the applicable Performance Period shall be determined by averaging the ROCE of each calendar year, or portion of a calendar year, during the Performance Period. ROCE for each calendar year, or portion of a calendar year, shall be determined pursuant to the formula x/y, where (x) is income from operations (defined as earnings before interest and tax without adjustment for extraordinary items) and
Return on Capital Employed means annual approved AICP adjusted attributable Return on Capital Employed for the Performance Period, as adjusted for gold price, copper price, fuel and exchange rates, one-time accounting adjustments or other items as approved by the Board, compared to actual adjusted attributable ROCE earnings before interest and tax divided by average capital employed.