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LSI (FRA:LOG) ROE % : 8.94% (As of Mar. 2014)


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What is LSI ROE %?

ROE % is calculated as Net Income divided by its average Total Stockholders Equity over a certain period of time. LSI's annualized net income for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2014 was €96 Mil. LSI's average Total Stockholders Equity over the quarter that ended in Mar. 2014 was €1,075 Mil. Therefore, LSI's annualized ROE % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2014 was 8.94%.

The historical rank and industry rank for LSI's ROE % or its related term are showing as below:

FRA:LOG's ROE % is not ranked *
in the Semiconductors industry.
Industry Median: 4.41
* Ranked among companies with meaningful ROE % only.

LSI ROE % Historical Data

The historical data trend for LSI'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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LSI ROE % Chart

LSI Annual Data
Trend Dec04 Dec05 Dec06 Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13
ROE %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -3.16 3.02 27.98 17.71 9.42

LSI Quarterly Data
Jun09 Sep09 Dec09 Mar10 Jun10 Sep10 Dec10 Mar11 Jun11 Sep11 Dec11 Mar12 Jun12 Sep12 Dec12 Mar13 Jun13 Sep13 Dec13 Mar14
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 6.45 8.55 12.67 13.77 8.94

Competitive Comparison of LSI's ROE %

For the Semiconductors subindustry, LSI'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.


LSI's ROE % Distribution in the Semiconductors Industry

For the Semiconductors industry and Technology sector, LSI's ROE % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where LSI's ROE % falls into.



LSI ROE % Calculation

LSI's annualized ROE % for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2013 is calculated as

ROE %=Net Income (A: Dec. 2013 )/( (Total Stockholders Equity (A: Dec. 2012 )+Total Stockholders Equity (A: Dec. 2013 ))/ count )
=90.997/( (883.633+1048.077)/ 2 )
=90.997/965.855
=9.42 %

LSI's annualized ROE % for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2014 is calculated as

ROE %=Net Income (Q: Mar. 2014 )/( (Total Stockholders Equity (Q: Dec. 2013 )+Total Stockholders Equity (Q: Mar. 2014 ))/ count )
=96.108/( (1048.077+1102.174)/ 2 )
=96.108/1075.1255
=8.94 %

* 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. 2014) net income data. ROE % is displayed in the 30-year financial page.


LSI  (FRA:LOG) 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. 2014 )
=Net Income/Total Stockholders Equity
=96.108/1075.1255
=(Net Income / Revenue )*(Revenue / Total Assets)*(Total Assets / Total Stockholders Equity)
=(96.108 / 1645.74)*(1645.74 / 1729.4335)*(1729.4335 / 1075.1255)
=Net Margin %*Asset Turnover*Equity Multiplier
=5.84 %*0.9516*1.6086
=ROA %*Equity Multiplier
=5.56 %*1.6086
=8.94 %

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. 2014 )
=Net Income/Total Stockholders Equity
=96.108/1075.1255
=(Net Income / Pre-Tax Income) * (Pre-Tax Income / Operating Income) * (Operating Income / Revenue) * (Revenue / Total Assets) * (Total Assets / Total Stockholders Equity)
= (96.108 / 81.092) * (81.092 / 73.372) * (73.372 / 1645.74) * (1645.74 / 1729.4335) * (1729.4335 / 1075.1255)
= Tax Burden * Interest Burden * Operating Margin % * Asset Turnover * Equity Multiplier
= 1.1852 * 1.1052 * 4.46 % * 0.9516 * 1.6086
=8.94 %

Note: The net income data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2014) net income data. The Revenue data used here is four times the quarterly (Mar. 2014) 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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LSI (FRA:LOG) Business Description

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LSI Corporation was incorporated in California on November 6, 1980, and was reincorporated in Delaware on June 11, 1987. The Company designs, develops and markets networking semiconductors and storage systems. It provides silicon-to-system solutions that are used to create, store, consume and transport digital information. It offers integrated circuits used in hard disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems and personal computers. It also offers external storage systems, storage systems software, redundant array of independent disks, or RAID, adapters for computer servers, and RAID software applications. The Company has two segments — the Semiconductor segment and the Storage Systems segment. Its semiconductor segment designs, develops and markets complex integrated circuits for storage and networking applications. These solutions include both custom solutions and standard products. It designs custom solutions for a specific application defined by the customer. The Company develops products for market applications that it defines and sells them to multiple customers. It sells its integrated circuits for storage applications to makers of hard disk drives, solid state drives and computer servers. It sells its integrated circuits for networking applications principally to makers of devices used in computer and telecommunications networks and, to a lesser extent, to makers of personal computers. Its storage systems segment designs and sells enterprise storage systems and storage software applications that enable storage area networks. The Company also offers RAID adapters for computer servers and associated software for attaching storage devices to computer servers. It sells its storage systems and storage solutions mainly to OEMs who resell these products to end customers under their own brand name. The semiconductor industry is competitive and is characterized by rapidly changing technology, short product cycles and emerging standards. The semiconductor manufacturing process begins with wafer fabrication, where a design is transferred to silicon wafers through a series of processes, including photolithography, ion implantation, deposition of numerous films and the etching of these various films and layers. On January 3, 2012, the company acquired SandForce, Inc., a provider of flash storage processors, or FSPs, for enterprise and client flash solutions and solid state drives, or SSDs. Federal, state and local regulations, in addition to those of other nations, impose various environmental controls on certain chemicals and restricted substances used in the manufacture of semiconductor and storage products.

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