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Box (BOX) Return on Equity [ROE] (2015 - 2021)

Updated

Box (BOX) posted Return on Equity [ROE] of -23.53% for fiscal Q1 2022 (quarter ended Apr 30, 2021), up 397.55 percentage points from -421.07% a year earlier and up 12.87 percentage points from the prior quarter.

Analysis

Box (BOX) Return on Equity [ROE] (2015 - 2021) Analysis & Trends

For FY2021 (ended Jan 31, 2021), Box's Return on Equity [ROE] came in at -50.09%, up 486.90 percentage points from FY2020.

  • Annual Return on Equity [ROE] shows a five-year change of +49.88 percentage points (FY2016 to FY2021).
  • In prior fiscal years, Box's Return on Equity [ROE] was -536.99% in FY2020 (+43.57 pp), -580.56% in FY2019 (-235.05 pp), -345.51% in FY2018 (-202.74 pp) and -142.77% in FY2017 (-42.80 pp).
  • The fiscal Q1 2022 figure stands as the highest quarterly Return on Equity [ROE] in data going back to fiscal Q1 2016.
  • On a year-over-year basis, Return on Equity [ROE] has increased in each of the last five quarters, with an average year-over-year change of +174.87 percentage points over the last eight quarters.
  • The strongest year-over-year quarter for Return on Equity [ROE] in the past five years was fiscal Q4 2021, with a gain of 632.93 percentage points; the weakest was fiscal Q4 2018, with a drop of 565.44 percentage points.
  • According to Business Quant data, Return on Equity [ROE] for the three prior fiscal quarters was -36.40% (Q4 2021), -93.62% (Q3 2021) and -208.07% (Q2 2021).
Peer Set

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) ROE (Qtr)
1 Adobe 94.52 Bn 69.77 Bn 6.00 Bn 62.57%
2 Autodesk 54.99 Bn 43.02 Bn 1.87 Bn 49.91%
3 Atlassian 39.98 Bn 33.26 Bn 1.53 Bn -5.55%
4 Twilio 30.87 Bn 20.51 Bn 760.53 Mn 14.02%
5 Zoom Communications 26.33 Bn -4.40 Bn 985.50 Mn 30.60%
6 Figma 10.00 Bn 3.32 Bn 314.44 Mn -37.23%
7 Dropbox 7.80 Bn 3.43 Bn 506.50 Mn -
8 Open Text 6.19 Bn 1.62 Bn 1.01 Bn 16.12%
9 RingCentral 6.04 Bn 5.57 Bn 494.30 Mn -
10 Box 5.76 Bn 3.63 Bn 253.97 Mn -
Historic Data

Historic Data

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DateValue
Apr 30, 2021 -23.53%
Jan 31, 2021 -36.40%
Oct 31, 2020 -93.62%
Jul 31, 2020 -208.07%
Apr 30, 2020 -421.07%
Jan 31, 2020 -669.33%
Oct 31, 2019 -621.05%
Jul 31, 2019 -503.57%
Apr 30, 2019 -435.25%
Jan 31, 2019 -471.90%
Oct 31, 2018 -485.69%
Jul 31, 2018 -367.77%
Apr 30, 2018 -492.05%
Jan 31, 2018 -750.99%
Oct 31, 2017 -466.70%
Jul 31, 2017 -303.63%
Apr 30, 2017 -227.82%
Jan 31, 2017 -185.55%
Oct 31, 2016 -174.26%
Jul 31, 2016 -163.82%
API Access

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