Sonic (SONC) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow : 30.12 (As of Apr. 25, 2024)

Sonic Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Chart

Sonic Annual Data
	Trend	Aug09	Aug10	Aug11	Aug12	Aug13	Aug14	Aug15	Aug16	Aug17	Aug18
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					48.53	15.41	20.39	35.31	24.83

Sonic Quarterly Data
	Nov13	Feb14	May14	Aug14	Nov14	Feb15	May15	Aug15	Nov15	Feb16	May16	Aug16	Nov16	Feb17	May17	Aug17	Nov17	Feb18	May18	Aug18
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															35.31	24.22	20.73	17.20	24.83

Competitive Comparison of Sonic's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow

For the Restaurants subindustry, Sonic'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.

Sonic's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Sonic's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

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

Sonic Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation

Sonic's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow ratio for today is calculated as

Sonic's Share Price of today is $43.49.
Sonic's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Aug. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.44.

* 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.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

Sonic  (NAS:SONC) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Explanation

Free Cash Flow is considered more important than earnings by value investors. The reason is because, in principle, only the net cash that can be taken from the business belongs to shareholders. This Free Cash Flow can be used to grow the business, reduce debt or return to shareholders in dividends or share buybacks.

In a DCF Calculation Free Cash Flow is used to determine the intrinsic value of companies.

Be Aware

In real business, Free Cash Flow can be affected by the change in accounts receivable, accounts payable, management's decision on expansion, etc. Therefore, investors should look at the Free Cash Flow over the longer term. Long-term average of Free Cash Flow is a more reliable indicator for real free cash flow.

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