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Return on Capital Employed

ROCE. A measure of the returns that a company is realizing from ITS capital. Calculated as Profit before Interest and Tax divided by the difference between Total assets and Current liabilities. The resulting Ratio represents the efficiency with which Capital is being utilized to generate revenue.

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