Lets look at how to calculate ROIC (Return on Invested Capital).  I make no secret that ROIC is one of my favorite value stock investing tools.   Learning how to calculate ROIC is relatively easy, and will require you to look at a company’s financial reports to get the numbers you need to calculate ROIC.

The formula for how to calculate ROIC is:

ROIC = ((Net Operating Profit – Income Tax) / (long term debt + equity))

 ROIC calculations look like they have a lot going on, but I’ll now show you how easy it is to get everything so you can calculate ROIC.

Lets use Walgreens in 2007 as an example of how to calculate ROIC, click here for the data you’ll need to follow along with this ROIC example.

From the Income statement, the numerator in the ROIC calculation (Net Operating Profit - Taxes) is 2041.3, you can find this about half way down the page.

The next step to learn how to calculate ROIC is to determine the denominator, so we’ll look at the Balance Sheet tab on the above Walgreens data, and find equity is 11,104.3, and long term debt (+ other liabilities) is 1284.8, which means the ROIC denominator is 12389.1.

So ROIC is 2041.3/12389.1 = 15.5%

Now you know how to calculate ROIC.

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