As of today (2024-05-05), Metalico's share price is €0.50.
Metalico's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 was €0.46. Hence, Metalico's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio for today is 1.09.
The historical rank and industry rank for Metalico's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:MT5'
s Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.69 Med: 6.62 Max: 333.68
Current: 1.14
During the past 13 years, Metalico's highest Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio was 333.68. The lowest was 0.69. And the median was 6.62.
FRA:MT5's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is not ranked
in the Industrial Products industry.
Industry Median: 21.275
vs FRA:MT5: 1.14
During the past 12 months, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Metalico was 510.50% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 3.80% per year.
During the past 13 years, Metalico's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 110.50% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was -71.00% per year.
Metalico Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Historical Data
The historical data trend for Metalico's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow 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.
Competitive Comparison of Metalico's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow
For the Metal Fabrication subindustry, Metalico'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.
Metalico's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Industrial Products Industry
For the Industrial Products industry and Industrials sector, Metalico's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Metalico's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.
Metalico Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation
Metalico's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow ratio for today is calculated as
Metalico's Share Price of today is €0.50. Metalico's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €0.46.
* 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:
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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Metalico Inc was originally organized as a Delaware corporation in August 1997. The Company along with its subsidiaries operates in two distinct business segments; scrap metal recycling and lead metal product fabricating. The Companys operating facilities include thirty-one scrap metal recycling facilities, including a combined aluminum de-oxidizing plant and four lead product manufacturing and fabricating plants. In the Scrap Metal Recycling segment, its operations mainly involves the collection and processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. It collects industrial and obsolete scrap metal, process it into reusable forms and supply the recycled metals to its consumers that include electric arc furnace mills, integrated steel mills, foundries, secondary smelters, aluminum recyclers and metal brokers. The Company acquires unprocessed scrap metals mainly in its local and regional markets and sells to consumers nationally and in Canada as well as to exporters and international brokers. Some of the metal commodities it recycles include steel, copper, aluminum, stainless steel, molybdenum, tantalum, platinum, lead and many others. In Lead Fabricating segment, through four physical operations located in three states, the Company consumes approximately 40 to 45 million pounds of lead metal per year that are utilized in more than one hundred different base products. Its products are sold nationally into diverse industries such as roofing, plumbing, radiation shielding for pharmaceutical and power generation, electronic solders, ammunition, automotive, Department of Defense contractors, and others. The Company sells its lead fabrications nationally. Products are sold to distributors, wholesalers, the plumbing and building trades, equipment manufacturers and other consumers. Its lead fabrication facilities compete against two fabricators of similar, but limited products based in the Southwest who distribute nationally and several smaller regional producers of similar products. To a lesser extent, it also competes against products imported from South America, Canada, Europe and Asia. The Company is subject to comprehensive and frequently changing Federal, state and local laws and regulations.
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