This post first appeared on http://8percentpa.substack.com Happy New Year! We shall start 2024 with a deep dive into this company! This company is not our typical strong financials, high ROE and high margin company. Its net income is barely positive and this makes the Price Earnings Ratio (PER) and Return on Equity (ROE) numbers look erratic. But FCF generation is strong and growing which makes the stock worth looking at. Again, let’s start with the financials. Simple financials (Dec 2023, USD) Sales: 19.1bnEBITDA: 1.7bnNet income: 0.2bnFCF: 1.0bnDebt: 4.9bn, Mkt Cap 20.4bn
Ratios ROIC 8.0%EV/EBITDA 11.7x (Dec 24)PER 78.5x (Dec 24)Past margins: OPM 5%FCF yield: mid to high single digit for the last few years
Before 2009, the company was generating negative FCF as it just started building its moat and it only started generating three digit million FCF from around 2012. But when the pandemic hit in 2020, FCF turned
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