You know, I don't think — I look
at free cash flow yields.
Not exact matches
We have confidence it will be profitable in the next recession, yet it trades
at 9.5 x next year's earnings with a 13 %
free cash flow yield.
Qualcomm trades
at a roughly 10 %
free cash flow yield or 10 times earnings once one adjusts for the roughly $ 30 billion in
cash they are hoarding.
The best way to determine whether or not a company can continue to provide an annual dividend and raise its
yield is to look
at the company's
free cash flow.
Importantly, Primus» management estimates that the company will generate $ 23 - 28 million of annual
free cash flow, or $ 2.38 - 2.89 / share of FCF, representing a 34 - 41 % FCF
yield at its current $ 7.00 share price.
Excluding net
cash (Amdocs has over $ 9 a share in
cash), Amdocs trades
at a roughly 10 % trailing
free cash flow yield and a little over 10 times forward earnings estimates.
The offer values OEG
at a trailing 5.4 times EV / EBITDA ratio, a P / E of 9.6 times and a 10 % +
free cash flow yield.
The companies that actually do buybacks, as opposed to merely announcing them, do very well, and that is intensified for those that buy back stock
at high
free cash flow yields.
At the depths of bear markets, both
free cash flow yields and funding
yields rise considerably, but the FCF
yields more so.
DHT's
free cash flow yield2
at 23 % is more than quadruple the mean of its comparable companies, who average a 5.3 % dividend
yield and who all currently pay dividends, including those who previously eliminated their dividend during the crisis.
It's cheap (taking the midpoint of its guidance it's on less than 5.5 x earnings), it has got a strong balance sheet (net debt / EBITDA was 0.8 x
at end - 2010), it has a stable business model (it is the biggest distributor of fruit and vegetables in Europe, with a reach that enables it to supply multiples across different countries), it has a decent dividend
yield (circa 4.5 %) and it is spitting out
cash (
free cash flow for the twelve months ended 30 June 2011 amounted to $ 29.0 m — that's nearly a quarter of the group's market cap).
You can retire comfortably in 10 years with 10 +
free - and - clear rental homes when you approach this business with a sensible plan of buying houses
at 10 % below fair market value with 10 % down payment and 10 % +
yield on your investment (the author's 10/10/10 plan), and wisely reinvesting
cash flow, equity gains, and selling the loser houses to pay off the debt of the winners.