The transaction will generate approximately $ 1.5 billion in operating efficiencies and will be accretive to Comcast's
free cash flow per share while preserving balance sheet strength.
The fund utilizes fundamental, bottom - up research, screening securities on
normalized free cash flow per share, market opportunity, sales growth, margin outlook and capital deployment to value ideas.
The company's three - year performance awards going forward are based on both EPS and
free cash flow per share.
Through the team's relentless execution of our plan in the first quarter, we grew revenue, expanded EBITDA margins, produced over 30 % growth in earnings and
free cash flow per share and returned essentially all of our free cash flow to shareholders.
Based on that 5 - year forecast and IMS Health's tendency to buy back stock (and the reasonable price of that stock before the buyout rumor leaked) it seems likely that
free cash flow per share would have grown by 10 % + annually if IMS Health had stayed a public company.
More importantly, the company achieved an ominous milestone during the quarter:
free cash flow per share ($ 0.973) dipped below dividend payouts per share ($ 1.10) in the prior 12 - month period for the first time since mid-2013.
At the end, Morningstar calculates the ratio of the current market price to the discounted value of
the free cash flows per share.
The company has increased its earnings and
free cash flow per share by 9.1 % and 7.7 % per year, respectively, over its last five fiscal years.
You can see that the company's sales, earnings, and
free cash flow per share have faced challenges in recent years.
Free cash flow per share Free cash flow per share takes the annual cash flow available to pay dividends and divides by the number of ordinary shares in issue.
Based on that 5 - year forecast and IMS Health's tendency to buy back stock (and the reasonable price of that stock before the buyout rumor leaked) it seems likely that
free cash flow per share would have grown by 10 % + annually if IMS Health had stayed a public company.