There are some different tactics... many
like free cash flow yields, quality businesses, but in the end, the one thing they have in common is they want to buy really undervalued situations.
Not exact matches
Just
like the other stocks on this list, American Express has generated over $ 14.9 billion in
free cash flow over the past five years and currently earns a 6 %
free cash flow yield.
It has a much higher dividend
yield of 4.2 %, and,
like UGI, it has delivered positive
free cash flow for three consecutive years.
A couple of my favorite things to look for in determining quality is growth of book value over time (this tells me the company might have some sort of competitive advantage) and
free cash flow yield (
free cash flow divided by price - I
like stock with 10 % FCF
yield).
The
free cash flow yield and the P / E and the book value of a movie studio — especially a young studio
like DreamWorks Animation — is irrelevant.
The best we can do is something
like GMO does, and go to each asset class and try to estimate the
free cash flow yield of each asset class over the next full market cycle (5 - 10 years) given the current prices being paid.