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Anglo American (LSE:AAL) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate : -34.70% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Anglo American 3-Year FCF Growth Rate?

Anglo American's Free Cash Flow per Share for the six months ended in Dec. 2023 was £0.16.

During the past 12 months, Anglo American's average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -86.40% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -34.70% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -18.70% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Free Cash Flow per Share growth rate.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Anglo American was 93.10% per year. The lowest was -37.50% per year. And the median was 10.50% per year.


Competitive Comparison of Anglo American's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Anglo American's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year FCF Growth Rate data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Anglo American's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Anglo American's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Anglo American's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate falls into.



Anglo American 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Calculation

This is the 3-year average growth rate of Free Cash Flow per Share. The growth rate is calculated using exponential compounding based on the latest four year annual data.

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Anglo American  (LSE:AAL) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Explanation

Free Cash Flow per Share is the amount of Free Cash Flow per outstanding share of the company's stock. Free Cash Flow is considered one of the most important parameters to measure a company's earnings power by value investors because it is not subject to estimates of Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization (DDA). However, when we look at the Free Cash Flow, we should look from a long term perspective, because any year's Free Cash Flow can be drastically affected by the spending on Property, Plant, & Equipment (PPE) of the business in that year. Over the long term, Free Cash Flow should give pretty good picture on the real earnings power of the company. It's used in the calculation of Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %.


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Anglo American (LSE:AAL) Business Description

Address
17 Charterhouse Street, London, GBR, EC1N 6RA
Anglo American's mining portfolio spans many commodities and continents. Like fellow large diversified miners, Anglo has significant exposure to copper, iron ore and metallurgical coal, but it is unique among the global majors given its significant platinum group metals and diamonds output. The company accounts for about one third of the world's platinum supply and around 30% of palladium supply. Anglo also owns 85% of De Beers, in most years the world's largest supplier and marketer of rough gem diamonds by value. Anglo also plans to move back into the crop nutrients business via its Woodsmith polyhalite project in the United Kingdom.