SKB Shutters Corporation Berhad’s (KLSE:SKBSHUT) Stock Has Been Sliding But Fundamentals Look Strong: Is The Market Wrong?

With its stock down 11% over the past three months, it is easy to disregard SKB Shutters Corporation Berhad (KLSE:SKBSHUT). However, stock prices are usually driven by a company’s financial performance over the long term, which in this case looks quite promising. Particularly, we will be paying attention to SKB Shutters Corporation Berhad’s ROE today.

Return on Equity or ROE is a test of how effectively a company is growing its value and managing investors’ money. In other words, it is a profitability ratio which measures the rate of return on the capital provided by the company’s shareholders.

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ROE can be calculated by using the formula:

Return on Equity = Net Profit (from continuing operations) ÷ Shareholders’ Equity

So, based on the above formula, the ROE for SKB Shutters Corporation Berhad is:

15% = RM26m ÷ RM180m (Based on the trailing twelve months to September 2025).

The ‘return’ is the income the business earned over the last year. One way to conceptualize this is that for each MYR1 of shareholders’ capital it has, the company made MYR0.15 in profit.

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We have already established that ROE serves as an efficient profit-generating gauge for a company’s future earnings. Based on how much of its profits the company chooses to reinvest or “retain”, we are then able to evaluate a company’s future ability to generate profits. Assuming everything else remains unchanged, the higher the ROE and profit retention, the higher the growth rate of a company compared to companies that don’t necessarily bear these characteristics.

At first glance, SKB Shutters Corporation Berhad seems to have a decent ROE. Especially when compared to the industry average of 7.1% the company’s ROE looks pretty impressive. Probably as a result of this, SKB Shutters Corporation Berhad was able to see an impressive net income growth of 41% over the last five years. We believe that there might also be other aspects that are positively influencing the company’s earnings growth. For instance, the company has a low payout ratio or is being managed efficiently.

We then compared SKB Shutters Corporation Berhad’s net income growth with the industry and we’re pleased to see that the company’s growth figure is higher when compared with the industry which has a growth rate of 10% in the same 5-year period.