Dupont System For Financial Analysis
Dupont System For Financial Analysis
For Financial
Analysis
By Kevin Bernhardt, UW-Platteville and UWExtension
March 10, 2010
http://cdp.wisc.edu/Management.htm
First,
This Thing
Called Debt
Anatomy of Returns
Total Assets = Total Liabilities + Total Equity
Total amount of stuff
used in the business to
make profits (supplies,
inputs breeding stock,
machinery, etc.)
How much of
that stuff is
financed by the
bank, that is,
debt capital.
How much of
that stuff is
financed by
your own
money, that is,
equity capital.
100
1000
$10 cents of
income per dollar
of asset
ROROA = 10%
ROROE = 10.9%
76
700
$700
Total Assets
$300
Banks money
(Debt capital)
$1000
100
1000
10% * $700
$70
(10%-8%) * $300
$6
Total return
$76
$76/$700 = 10.9% ROROE
-24
700
My money
(Equity Capital)
$700
Total Assets
$300
Banks money
(Debt capital)
$1000
0
1000
ROROA = 0%
Making 0% on all assets, but paying 8%, and
the additional 8% is coming out of equity.
0% * $700
$0
(0%-8%) * $300
-$24
Total return
-$24
-$24/$700 = -3.4% ROROE
55
700
My money
(Equity Capital)
$700
Total Assets
$300
Banks money
(Debt capital)
$1000
100
1000
10% * $700
$70
(10%-15%) * 300
-$15
Total return
$55
$55/$700 = 7.9% ROROE
DuPont System
Developed in 1919 by a finance executive at E.I.
du Pont de Nemours and Co
The DuPont system is a way of visualizing the
information so that everyone can see it.
(Stephen Jablonsky, Penn State University)
DuPont analysis is a good tool for getting
people started in understanding how they can
have an impact on results (Doug McCallen,
Caterpillar Inc.)
Number one, its simple (Sam Siegel, CFO)
DuPont System
DuPont Financial Analysis Model is a
rather straightforward method for
assessing the factors that influence a
firms financial performance. (Gunderson,
Detre, and Boehlje, AgriMarketing 2005)
DuPont System
Earnings/Efficiency
Operating
Profit Margin
Income
Stream
Asset
Turnover
Turnings/Asset Use
Investment
Stream
Financial
Structure
Leverage
Return On
Assets (less
interest adj.)
X
Return On
Equity
X
Asset
Turnover
R
M
P
O
Return On
Assets (less
Financial
Structure
Leverage
OE
R
O
R
interest adj.)
ATO
Turnings
Investment
Stream
A
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Return On
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DuPont System
Earnings/Efficiency
Operating
Profit Margin
X
Asset
Turnover
Turnings/Asset Use
Financial
Structure
Leverage
Return On
Assets (less
interest adj.)
X
Return On
Equity
Total Revenue
Total Assets
DuPont System
Earnings/Efficiency
Operating
Profit Margin
X
Asset
Turnover
Turnings/Asset Use
Financial
Structure
Leverage
Return On
Assets (less
interest adj.)
X
Return On
Equity
i-rate Adj.
interest pd.
Total Assets
Leverage Ratio
Total Assets
Total Equity
labor
+ depreciation
+ interest expenses
cash expenses
+(-) accrual expense changes
Leverage
Total Assets
Total Equity
Too Low
Return On
Assets
OK
Return On
Equity
Too Low
Total Revenue =
OK
Basic Costs = cash expenses +(-) accrual exp changes + purch lstk Depr
Non Basic Costs = labor + depreciation + interest expenses
Earnings
Turnings
Total Revenue
Total Assets
ATO
Total Assets
Total Equity
OK
Too Low
OPMR
Return On
Assets
Too Low
OK
X
Return On
Equity
Too Low
Earnings
Turnings
Total Revenue
Total Assets
ATO
-Unproductive machinery?
- Buildings not being used?
- Breeding livestock not producing?
- Unproductive land?
- Over valued assets?
Leverage
Total Assets
Total Equity
OK
OK
OPMR
Return On
Assets
Too Low
Too Low
X
Return On
Equity
Too Low
Also, selling off unproductive assets
and paying off debt could change
your leverage position in a positive
way, and also improve your ROROE!
Revenues too
low for costs
OPM too
Low
Costs too high
for Revenues
ROROA
too Low
ATO too
Low
Obsolete or
Inefficient
Assets
Unused or
Under
Utilized
Assets
ROROE
too Low
Wrong Kind of
Debt
Leverage
Not Enough
Debt
End
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NFIFO
+int
- unpd mgt
11.7
2007
31,157
3.4
2008
1,665
6.12
OPM
4.1%
751,348
0.2%
757,926
5 yr avg