ROIC % measures how well a company generates cash flow relative to the capital it has invested in its business. It is also called ROC %. Summit Midstream's annualized return on invested capital (ROIC %) for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 2.99%.
As of today (2025-06-24), Summit Midstream's WACC % is 10.69%. Summit Midstream's ROIC % is 6.52% (calculated using TTM income statement data).
Summit Midstream earns returns that do not match up to its cost of capital. It will destroy value as it grows.
Summit Midstream ROIC % Historical Data
The historical data trend for Summit Midstream's ROIC % 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.
Competitive Comparison of Summit Midstream's ROIC %
For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Summit Midstream's ROIC %, along with its competitors' market caps and ROIC % 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.
Summit Midstream's ROIC % Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry
For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Summit Midstream's ROIC % distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Summit Midstream's ROIC % falls into.
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The Operating Income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2025) data.
* 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.
Summit Midstream (NYSE:SMC) ROIC % Explanation
ROIC % measures how well a company generates cash flow relative to the capital it has invested in its business. It is also called ROC %. The reason book values of debt and equity are used is because the book values are the capital the company received when issuing the debt or receiving the equity investments.
There are four key components to this definition. The first is the use of operating income or EBIT rather than net income in the numerator. The second is the tax adjustment to this operating income or EBIT, computed as a hypothetical tax based on an effective or marginal tax rate. The third is the use of book values for invested capital, rather than market values. The final is the timing difference; the capital invested is from the end of the prior year whereas the operating income or EBIT is the current year's number.
Why is ROIC % important?
Because it costs money to raise capital. A firm that generates higher returns on investment than it costs the company to raise the capital needed for that investment is earning excess returns. A firm that expects to continue generating positive excess returns on new investments in the future will see its value increase as growth increases, whereas a firm that earns returns that do not match up to its cost of capital will destroy value as it grows.
As of today, Summit Midstream's WACC % is 10.69%. Summit Midstream's ROIC % is 6.52% (calculated using TTM income statement data).
Be Aware
Like ROE % and ROA %, ROIC % is calculated with only 12 months of data. Fluctuations in the company's earnings or business cycles can affect the ratio drastically. It is important to look at the ratio from a long term perspective.
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Summit Midstream Corp is a value-driven corporation focused on developing, owning and operating midstream energy infrastructure assets strategically located in unconventional resource basins, shale formations, in the continental U.S. It currently operates natural gas, crude oil and produced water gathering systems in four unconventional resource basins: the Williston Basin in North Dakota, which includes the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations; the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which includes the Niobrara and Codell shale formations in Colorado and Wyoming; the Fort Worth Basin in Texas, which includes the Barnett Shale formation; and the Piceance Basin in Colorado, which includes the liquids-rich Mesaverde formation as well as the emerging Mancos and Niobrara Shale formations.
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