Team Health Holdings's total free cash flow for the
months ended in Sep. 2016 was
$46 Mil.
Its total free cash flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2016 was $90 Mil.
Team Health Holdings's Free Cash Flow per Share for the
months ended in Sep. 2016 was $0.61.
Its free cash flow per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2016 was $1.19.
Team Health Holdings Free Cash Flow Historical Data
The historical data trend for Team Health Holdings's 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.
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.
Team Health Holdings's Free Cash Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
Free Cash Flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $90 Mil.
* 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.
Team Health Holdings (NYSE:TMH) Free Cash Flow 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.
* 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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Team Health Holdings (Team Health Holdings) Business Description
Team Health Holdings Inc was founded in 1979. It is the suppliers of outsourced healthcare professional staffing and administrative services to hospitals and other healthcare providers in the United States, based upon revenues and patient visits. It serves approximately 3,400 civilian and military hospitals, clinics and physician groups in 47 states with a team of more than 18,000 affiliated healthcare professionals, including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurses. It recruits and contracts with healthcare professionals who then provide professional services within third-party healthcare facilities. It is a physician-founded organization with physician leadership throughout its business and since its inception in 1979; it provided outsourced services in hospital emergency departments, or EDs. It also provides comprehensive programs for hospital medicine, anesthesiology, pediatrics and other healthcare services, by providing permanent staffing that enables the management teams of hospitals and other healthcare facilities to outsource certain management, recruiting, hiring, payroll, billing and collection and benefits functions. The range of services that it provides to its clients include: recruiting, scheduling & credential coordination for clinical and non-clinical medical professionals; coding, billing & collection of fees for services provided by medical professionals; provision of experienced medical directors; administrative support services, such as payroll, professional liability insurance coverage, continuing medical education services & management training; risk & claims management services and standardized procedures. Healthcare facilities seek third-party physician staffing and administrative service providers that not only could improve department quality, productivity and patient satisfaction while reducing overall costs, but also offer a breadth of staffing and management services, billing & reimbursement expertise, a reputation for regulatory compliance, financial stability and a demonstrated ability to recruit & retain qualified physicians and technicians & nurses. It competes against local physician groups and self-operated hospital EDs. Its operations and relationships with healthcare providers such as hospitals are subject to increasing regulations by numerous federal, state and local governmental entities.
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