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Avance Gas Holding (Avance Gas Holding) Free Cash Flow per Share : $-0.16 (TTM As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Avance Gas Holding Free Cash Flow per Share?

Avance Gas Holding's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.42. Its Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.16.

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The historical rank and industry rank for Avance Gas Holding's Free Cash Flow per Share or its related term are showing as below:

During the past 11 years, Avance Gas Holding's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 69.00% per year. The lowest was -16.80% per year. And the median was 26.10% per year.

AVACF's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate is not ranked *
in the Oil & Gas industry.
Industry Median: 11.9
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 3-Year FCF Growth Rate only.

Avance Gas Holding Free Cash Flow per Share Historical Data

The historical data trend for Avance Gas Holding's Free Cash Flow per Share can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Avance Gas Holding Free Cash Flow per Share Chart

Avance Gas Holding Annual Data
Trend Nov13 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Free Cash Flow per Share
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.17 0.20 0.17 -0.43 -0.16

Avance Gas Holding Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Free Cash Flow per Share Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.44 -0.17 -0.48 0.07 0.42

Competitive Comparison of Avance Gas Holding's Free Cash Flow per Share

For the Oil & Gas Midstream subindustry, Avance Gas Holding's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow 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.


Avance Gas Holding's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Oil & Gas Industry

For the Oil & Gas industry and Energy sector, Avance Gas Holding's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Avance Gas Holding's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.



Avance Gas Holding Free Cash Flow per Share Calculation

Free Cashflow per Share is the amount of Free Cashflow 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.

Note: GuruFocus does not calculate Free Cash Flow Per Share when Capital Expenditure is 0.

Avance Gas Holding's Free Cash Flow Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow Per Share(A: Dec. 2023 )
=(Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure)/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=(165.335+-177.446)/77.043
=-12.111/77.043
=-0.16

Avance Gas Holding's Free Cash Flow Per Share for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow Per Share(Q: Dec. 2023 )
=(Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure)/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=(59.919+-27.389)/77.862
=32.53/77.862
=0.42

Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-0.16

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Avance Gas Holding  (OTCPK:AVACF) Free Cash Flow per Share Explanation

Free Cash Flow is very close to Warren Buffett's definition of Owner's Earnings, except that in Warren Buffett's Owner's Earnings, the spending for Property, Plant, and Equipment is only for maintenance (replacement), while in the Free Cash Flow calculation, the cost of new Property, Plant, and Equipment due to business expansion is also deducted. There, Free Cash Flow is more conservative than Owner's Earnings.

In Don Yacktman's calculation of forward rate of return, he uses Free Cash Flow for the calculation. Yacktman explained the forward rate of return concept in detail in his interview with GuruFocus. Yacktman defines forward rate of return as the normalized free cash flow yield plus real growth plus inflation.

This is what Yacktman said in his March 2012 interview - when the S&P 500 was at 1400:

If the business is stable, this calculation is fairly straightforward. For instance, on the S&P 500 we would normalize earnings. We would then calculate what percentage of those earnings are not reinvested in the underlying businesses and are therefore free. Historically, for the S&P 500, this has been just under 50% of earnings. Currently, we expect the S&P to earn about 70 on a normalized basis, a number which is far below reported earnings due to our adjusting for record high profit margins. $70 X ½ / 1400 gives you a normalized free cash flow yield of approximately 2.5%.

The historical real growth rate of the S&P 500 (companies) is about 1.5%. Assuming an inflation rate of 2.5%, the forward rate of return on an investment in the S&P 500 is about 6.5% today (2.5% free cash flow yield plus 1.5% real growth plus 2.5% inflation).

For the growth part of the Forward Rate of Return calculation, GuruFocus uses the 5-year average growth rate of EBITDA per share as the growth rate, and the growth rate is always capped at 20%. For the Free Cash Flow we use per share data averaged over seven years. The reason we use seven years is because research shows that seven years is the length of the typical business cycle.

Therefore, as of Dec23, Avance Gas Holding's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % is

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % (Dec23)=Normalized Free Cash Flow/Price+5-Year EBITDA Growth Rate
=0.01619048/14.77+0.2
=20.11 %

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Be Aware

Free Cash Flow within a report period can be affected by management's decisions of capital spending. Therefore, it is important to look at long term when it comes to Free Cash Flow.


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Avance Gas Holding (Avance Gas Holding) Business Description

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Address
14 Par-la-Ville Road, 4th floor, PO Box HM 1593, Par-la-Ville Place, Hamilton, BMU, HM 08
Avance Gas Holding Ltd is engaged in the transportation of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It owns and operates very large gas carriers (VLGCs) providing transportation services to oil majors and traders of LPG on a global basis. It operates a fleet of vessels providing customers with global transportation services through the combination of the contract of affreightments and spot market voyages. The company transports liquefied petroleum to destinations in Europe, South America, India, and Asia, mainly loading the Middle East Gulf and the United States Gulf/United States East Coast. The company operates in a single segment that is liquefied petroleum gas.

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