History shows that low price - to - earnings (P / E) and
high free cash flow companies outperform over five and ten - year stretches.
Not exact matches
The
company said it now expects a
higher free cash flow burn at $ 1.5 billion in 2016 as producing original content consumes more
cash up front.
«While the
company faces a number of significant challenges, including the continued rise of Amazon and Google, its
high margin and large sales figures enable the
company to generate significant
free cash flow, which it increasingly returns to shareholders via buybacks and dividends.»
The
Company generated $ 2.6 billion of
free cash flow in the first quarter of 2018 versus $ 2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2017 driven by
higher net income.
High free cash flow typically suggests stronger
company value.
Companies with strong
free cash flow provide
higher quality dividend yields because we know they have the
cash flow to support the dividend.
The consumer discretionary sector has changed its stripes over the years and is now largely composed of mature
companies with strong
free -
cash -
flow yield and
higher margins.
Companies with strong
free cash flow provide
higher quality dividend yields because we know the firm has the
cash to support its dividend.
IBM has the
highest payout ratio, as a percentage of trailing -12-month
free cash flow, among these six
companies.
There are big sectors of the market — food
companies, for example — where
companies believed to be of
high - quality, with low single - digit growth, are trading at 20 - 25x
free cash flow.
Although the
company tends to have relatively
high capital expenditures, which affect
free cash flow, it's been able to take on debt in order to help fund its dividend.
These
companies, with strong
free cash flow and economic earnings, provide
higher quality and safer dividend yields because we know they have the
cash to support their dividend.
They focus on identifying good
companies characterized by accelerating revenue and earnings growth,
high recurring revenues, strong balance sheets and
free cash flow generation.
Outlook For the full year 2012, the
company is increasing its adjusted
free cash flow guidance to reflect the favorable terms of the notes receivable securitization, the impact of lower financing propensity which results in a
higher percentage of
cash sales as compared to financed sales of vacation ownership products, as well as reduced real estate inventory needs.
Cash flow is riding high at ON, and the corresponding price - to - free cash flow ratio (same basic principle as the price - to - earnings ratio) makes the company look like a barg
Cash flow is riding
high at ON, and the corresponding price - to -
free cash flow ratio (same basic principle as the price - to - earnings ratio) makes the company look like a barg
cash flow ratio (same basic principle as the price - to - earnings ratio) makes the
company look like a bargain.
They focus on identifying good
companies characterized by accelerating revenue and earnings growth,
high recurring revenues, strong balance sheets and
free cash flow generation.
At a
high - level, I see QCOM as a conservatively capitalized (Debt / Equity = 36 %),
free cash flow generating (FCF = ~ $ 5B 12 - months YTD), financially stable
company (A + / Stable, A1 / Stable), who recently grew their dividend by over 10 %.
The main investment thesis here is you have a
company that produces
high returns on capital with a long history of stable
free cash flow that trades at around 8 times FCF.
I like
companies where market size is huge enough to maintain the
high growth rate with
free cash flow generation while keeping light balance sheet.
I also like
companies that are buying back their shares, making my shares more valuable (
high free cash flow often leads to share buybacks).
Some young
high growth
companies with less than 7 years of positive
free cash flows might not be included in the data analyzed, but those are the types of
companies that must be analyzed more carefully due to greater difficulty in predicting their future
cash flows.
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.
As well, look at
free cash flow, how much debt a
company is carrying — a debt - to - EBITDA ratio of three times is getting
high, says Gibbs — and how they're spending their money.
That's why a lot of us tend to invest in
companies like PG, JNJ, KMI, PM, MO, T etc because those
companies have pretty wide moats / competitive advantages, long histories of dividend raises, shareholder support and solid revenue, cost controls = > positive net income and generally healthy operating
cash flow, sometimes
high amounts of
free cash flow after capital investment.
Stephen Goddard: We focus on a universe of
high return on capital
companies with underleveraged balance sheets, ample
free cash flow.
When looking for a
high - quality
company, Mr. Fox wants a business with strong financials, manageable debt,
high returns on capital and good
free cash flow.
Even with little to no future growth, these
companies should continue to produce
high levels of
free cash flow over time which will allow them to increase share buybacks and / or dividends, thus compounding value for shareholders over time.
Leaving aside the biases that most of us have one way or another for each of these
companies, and you'll see 4 extremely profitable,
high quality businesses with very low multiples of earnings and
free cash flow.
The main
company will be relatively clean, with
free cash flow being a
high percentage of earnings.
So my watchlists end up providing me with most of my ideas, and I actually maintain a number of google spreadsheets, including lists such as buybacks,
high ROIC
companies, consistent historical
free cash flow, and book value compounders among other things.
Most of them are capital light businesses with
high margins,
high returns, and remember — they all belong to the exclusive club of
companies that have produced 10 consecutive years of
free cash flow:
The crux of the idea is that it is a
company with a strong brand name and large market share that produces
high ROIC and stable
free cash flow and has a majority owner committed to returning that
cash flow to shareholders, all for a single digit multiple.
If the return on equity is
higher than the growth rate, the
company is probably generating
free cash flow.
Plus the
company's
high interest bill adds additional stress — net interest (inc. hybrid coupons) now stands at a whopping 37 % of operating
free cash flow.
Companies that have high return on capital and don't have a very capital intensive business — our kind of companies — usually will have substantial free cash flows, which allows them to grow earnings organically, pay a dividend and buy ba
Companies that have
high return on capital and don't have a very capital intensive business — our kind of
companies — usually will have substantial free cash flows, which allows them to grow earnings organically, pay a dividend and buy ba
companies — usually will have substantial
free cash flows, which allows them to grow earnings organically, pay a dividend and buy back stock.
«We believe this positions the
company to generate strong
free cash flow and
higher absolute revenue and EBITDA levels in the future.»