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Alliance Fiber Optic Products (Alliance Fiber Optic Products) ROE % : -3.40% (As of Mar. 2016)


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What is Alliance Fiber Optic Products ROE %?

ROE % is calculated as Net Income divided by its average Total Stockholders Equity over a certain period of time. Alliance Fiber Optic Products's annualized net income for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 was $-2.14 Mil. Alliance Fiber Optic Products's average Total Stockholders Equity over the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 was $63.09 Mil. Therefore, Alliance Fiber Optic Products's annualized ROE % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 was -3.40%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Alliance Fiber Optic Products's ROE % or its related term are showing as below:

AFOP's ROE % is not ranked *
in the Hardware industry.
Industry Median: 4.81
* Ranked among companies with meaningful ROE % only.

Alliance Fiber Optic Products ROE % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Alliance Fiber Optic Products's ROE % can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Alliance Fiber Optic Products ROE % Chart

Alliance Fiber Optic Products Annual Data
Trend Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15
ROE %
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Alliance Fiber Optic Products Quarterly Data
Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14 Jun14 Sep14 Dec14 Mar15 Jun15 Sep15 Dec15 Mar16
ROE % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 16.40 22.37 16.27 4.21 -3.40

Competitive Comparison of Alliance Fiber Optic Products's ROE %

For the Electronic Components subindustry, Alliance Fiber Optic Products's ROE %, along with its competitors' market caps and ROE % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Alliance Fiber Optic Products's ROE % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, Alliance Fiber Optic Products's ROE % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Alliance Fiber Optic Products's ROE % falls into.



Alliance Fiber Optic Products ROE % Calculation

Alliance Fiber Optic Products's annualized ROE % for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as

ROE %=Net Income (A: Dec. 2015 )/( (Total Stockholders Equity (A: Dec. 2014 )+Total Stockholders Equity (A: Dec. 2015 ))/ count )
=13.038/( (86.26+62.87)/ 2 )
=13.038/74.565
=17.49 %

Alliance Fiber Optic Products's annualized ROE % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2016 is calculated as

ROE %=Net Income (Q: Mar. 2016 )/( (Total Stockholders Equity (Q: Dec. 2015 )+Total Stockholders Equity (Q: Mar. 2016 ))/ count )
=-2.144/( (62.87+63.301)/ 2 )
=-2.144/63.0855
=-3.40 %

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

In the calculation of annual ROE %, the net income of the last fiscal year and the average total shareholder equity over the fiscal year are used. In calculating the quarterly data, the net income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2016) net income data. ROE % is displayed in the 30-year financial page.


Alliance Fiber Optic Products  (NAS:AFOP) ROE % Explanation

ROE % measures the rate of return on the ownership interest (shareholder's equity) of the common stock owners. It measures a firm's efficiency at generating profits from every unit of shareholders' equity (also known as net assets or assets minus liabilities). ROE % shows how well a company uses investment funds to generate earnings growth. ROE %s between 15% and 20% are considered desirable.

The factors that affect a company's ROE % can be illustrated with the three-step DuPont Analysis:

ROE %(Q: Mar. 2016 )
=Net Income/Total Stockholders Equity
=-2.144/63.0855
=(Net Income / Revenue )*(Revenue / Total Assets)*(Total Assets / Total Stockholders Equity)
=(-2.144 / 49.94)*(49.94 / 80.188)*(80.188 / 63.0855)
=Net Margin %*Asset Turnover*Equity Multiplier
=-4.29 %*0.6228*1.2711
=ROA %*Equity Multiplier
=-2.67 %*1.2711
=-3.40 %

With this breakdown, it is clear that if a company grows its Net Profit Margin, its Asset Turnover, or its Leverage, it can grow its ROE %.

The factors that affect a company's ROE % can also be illustrated with the five-step DuPont Analysis:

ROE %(Q: Mar. 2016 )
=Net Income/Total Stockholders Equity
=-2.144/63.0855
=(Net Income / Pre-Tax Income) * (Pre-Tax Income / Operating Income) * (Operating Income / Revenue) * (Revenue / Total Assets) * (Total Assets / Total Stockholders Equity)
= (-2.144 / -2.188) * (-2.188 / -2.596) * (-2.596 / 49.94) * (49.94 / 80.188) * (80.188 / 63.0855)
= Tax Burden * Interest Burden * Operating Margin % * Asset Turnover * Equity Multiplier
= 0.9799 * 0.8428 * -5.2 % * 0.6228 * 1.2711
=-3.40 %

Note: The net income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2016) net income data. The Revenue data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2016) revenue data. The same rule applies to Pre-Tax Income and Operating Income.
* In the five-step DuPont Analysis, Operating Income is only available for non-financial companies. Thus, for Insurance companies, we use EBIT as a substitution of Operating Income. For Banks, both Operating Income and EBIT is unavailable. Thus we combined Interest Burden and Operating Margin % into Pretax Margin %, and the DuPont Analysis is divided into four components instead.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Be Aware

Net Income is used.

Because a company can increase its ROE % by having more financial leverage, it is important to watch the equity multiplier when investing in high ROE % companies. Like ROA %, ROE % is calculated with only 12 months data. Fluctuations in company's earnings or business cycles can affect the ratio drastically. It is important to look at the ratio from a long term perspective.

Asset light businesses require very few assets to generate very high earnings. Their ROE %s can be extremely high.


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Alliance Fiber Optic Products (Alliance Fiber Optic Products) Business Description

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Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc was incorporated in California on December 12, 1995. The Company designs, manufactures and markets fiber optic components and integrated modules incorporating these components, for communications equipment manufacturers and service providers. The Company products including interconnect devices that are used to connect optical fibers and components, couplers and splitters that are used to divide and combine optical power, and dense wavelength division multiplexing, or DWDM, devices that separate and combine multiple specific wavelengths. Its lines of optical products support the needs of current and next generation optical network systems applications. Its connectivity product family provides a comprehensive line of optical interconnect devices, couplers and splitters, PLC (planar lightwave circuits) and related optical products, as well as customized integrated modules incorporating these devices. Its optical passive products include WDM, CWDM and DWDM components and modules that utilize thin film filter technologies to separate optical signals, variable attenuators, optical switches and other optical devices utilizing micro optic lensing technology including integrated electro-optical modules incorporating these products. It sells its products to communications equipment manufacturers in the United States and also maintain a sales support staff in Taiwan to service customers based in the Asia Pacific region. The Companys main competitors in the components market include JDS Uniphase Corp., Oclaro Inc., Oplink Communications, Inc., Senko Advanced Components and TE Connectivity.
Executives
Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd. 10 percent owner NO. 2 ZIYOU ST. TUCHENG DISTRICT, NEW TAIPEI F4 23678
Richard B Black director

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