capital employed in a sentence

Examples

1. We are single-minded in our commitment to getting back to a higher return on capital employed and in the meantime making strategic asset disposals where appropriate,
2. He said BT's return on capital employed will fall by as much as 50 percent by 2003 from more than 20 percent at present, for example.
3. The company's plan sets goals of a 12 percent to 13 percent return on capital employed and at least a 15 percent return on stockholders'equity, DeCrane said.
4. The company said all of its divisions improved earnings, allowing it to increase its return on capital employed to 12 percent from 9 percent in fiscal 1996.
5. Bull's net debt fell 540 million francs from yearend 1994, to a little above 1.3 billion francs, thanks " to a rigorous management of capital employed ."
6. It is a measure of investment performance, as opposed to size ( c . f . return on equity, return on assets, return on capital employed ).
7. The company said all of its divisions increased earnings, allowing it to boost its return on capital employed to 12 percent from 9 percent in fiscal 1996.
8. One prefers the first one when computing Capital Employed at the firm level; the second one is more practical when focusing on a company s business unit.
9. The company has set a goal of achieving a 20 percent pretax return on capital employed by the year 2002 in all of its divisions, Full said.
10. SHELL Malaysia Trading Sdn Bhd will invest about RM1 billion this year in its downstream sector activities, increasing its capital employed for this sector to nearly RM3 billion.