Houghton Chemicals, which started operations one year ago, has two divisions: Alloys and Petro. Both divisions invest heavily in R&D, which is assumed to generate benefits for five years. R&D spending is made uniformly throughout the year. Houghton Chemicals has a cost of capital of 11 percent. Selected financial information for the two divisions (in thousands of dollars) for the year just completed follows:

	Alloys	Petro
Sales revenue	$ 7,400	$ 5,500
Divisional income	777	945
Divisional investment	5,550	7,000
Current liabilities	160	200
R&D	200	300

Required:

Evaluate the performance of the two divisions assuming Houghton uses return on investment (ROI).