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Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics (Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : $-0.58 (As of Mar14)


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What is Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of Mar14, Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics's earnings power value is $-0.58. *

* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

Margin of Safety is N/A.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future. Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.


Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics's Earnings Power Value (EPV) 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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Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics Annual Data
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Earnings Power Value (EPV)
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Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Medical Devices subindustry, Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics's Earnings Power Value (EPV), along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Power Value (EPV) 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.


Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics Earnings Power Value (EPV) Calculation

Earnings Power Value also known as just Earnings Power is a valuation technique popularised by Bruce Greenwald, an authority on value investing at Columbia University. It is arguably a better way to analyze stocks than Discounted Cash Flow analysis that relies on highly speculative growth assumptions many years into the future.

The basic concept of EPV is that one should value a stock based on the current free cash flow of a company and not on future projections which may, or may not, come true. This valuation tool excludes the potential growth that a company may have so that needs to be looked at separately. Since future growth is excluded from the analysis, only the maintenance capital expenditures are subtracted from after-tax EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) and growth capex is ignored.


Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics  (OTCPK:LCDX) Earnings Power Value (EPV) Explanation

Assumption: Current profitability is sustainable.

Earnings power value (EPV) uses a very basic equation which assumes no growth, although it does rely on an assumption about the cost of capital as well as the fact that current earnings are sustainable. It also involves several adjustments to clean up the underlying Earnings figures.


Be Aware

Though using today's earnings in calculating Earnings Power Value, GuruFocus is normalizing these earnings to the business cycle. This eliminates the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle. This means that we are considering the average earnings over 5 years.


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Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics (Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics) Business Description

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Address
100 Burtt Road, Suite 203, Andover, MA, USA, 01810
Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics Inc is a medical device company engaged in developing, manufacturing, marketing & selling point-of-care cellular imaging systems to diagnose skin cancer. It offers clinical imaging and research imaging solutions that shows tissue at the cellular level. Its products portfolio includes; VivaScope; VivaScope 3000, 1500 & 2500; and VivaNet and VivaScan.
Executives
Paul Stuka director C/O OSIRIS PARTNERS, LLC, ONE LIBERTY SQUARE, 5TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02109
William J Shea director, 10 percent owner 11825 N PENNSYLVANIA ST, CARMEL IN 46032
Kevin M Cronin director
Richard Christopher officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O LUCID, INC., 50 METHODIST HILL DR, SUITE 1000, ROCHESTER NY 14623
Martin Joseph Joyce officer: Chief Financial Officer 1050 HINGHAM STREET, ROCKLAND MA 02370
Matthew S Cox director 58 OAKWOOD DRIVE, CHAPEL HILL NC 27517

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