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Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund (Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : $-3.23 (As of Aug23)


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What is Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of Aug23, Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's earnings power value is $-3.23. *

* 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.


Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund'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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Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Asset Management subindustry, Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund'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.


Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund 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.

Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's "Earning Power" Calculation:

Average of Last 5 Years Last Year
Revenue 5.35
DDA 0.02
Operating Margin % 0.00
SGA * 25% 0.08
Tax Rate % 0.00
Maintenance Capex 0.00
Cash and Cash Equivalents 0.00
Short-Term Debt 0.00
Long-Term Debt 30.00
Shares Outstanding (Diluted) 9.30

1. Start with "Earnings" not including accounting adjustments (one-time charges not excluded unless policy has changed). "Earnings" are "Operating Income.

2. Look at average margins over a business/Industry cycle: Average Operating Margin = 0.00%

To normalize margins and eliminate the effects on profitability of valuing the firm at different points in the business cycle, it is usually best to take a long-term average of operating margins. Ideally this would be as long as 10 years and include at least one economic downturn. However, since most of companies do not have as long as 10-year history, here GuruFocus uses the latest 5 years data to do the calculation. To smooth out unusual years but reflect recent developments, we take an average of the 5 year margin.

3. Multiply average margins by sustainable revenues and then adjust for maintenance SGA. This yields "normalized" EBIT:

To be conservative, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year revenues as the sustainable revenue.
EPV analysis recognises that part of SG&A expenditure is made to maintain and replace the existing assets, while part is made to grow sales. Since EPV is only interested in what it costs a going concern to maintain its existing asset base, it adds back a percentage of SG&A (between 15% and 50% - this is a matter of judgment and industry knowledge) to make up for the fact that some of this expenditure went to fund growth and shouldn't be accounted for. To start off, we assume 25% for the sake of prudence.
Sustainable Revenue = $5.35 Mil, Average Operating Margin = 0.00%, Average Adjusted SGA = 0.08,
therefore "Normalized" EBIT = Sustainable Revenue * Average Operating Margin + Average Adjusted SGA = 5.35 * 0.00% +0.08 = $ Mil.

4. Multiply by one minus Average Tax Rate (NOPAT):

Same as average operating margin calculation, GuruFocus takes an average of the 5 years tax rates.
Average Tax Rate = 0.00%, and "Normalized" EBIT = $ Mil,
therefore After-tax "Normalized" EBIT = "Normalized" EBIT * ( 1 - Average Tax Rate ) = * ( 1 - 0.00% ) = $0 Mil.

5. Add back Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate). This yields "normalized" Earnings:

Excess Depreciation = Average DDA * % of Excess Depreciation (after tax at 1/2 average tax rate) = 0.02 * 0.5 * 0.00% = $0 Mil.
"Normalized" Earnings = After-tax "Normalized" EBIT + Excess Depreciation = 0 + 0 = $0 Mil.

6. Adjusted for Maintenance Capital Expenditure:

First, calculate the revenue change regarding to the previous year. If the revenue decreased from the previous year, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
Second, if the revenue increased from the previous year, then calculate the percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue.
Third, calculate Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was negative, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive).
If [Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase] was positive, then the Maintenance Capital Expenditure = Capital Expenditure (positive) - percentage of Net PPE as of corresponding Revenue * revenue increase.
Fourth, GuruFocus uses an average of the 5 year maintenance capital expenditures as maintenance CAPEX.
Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's Average Maintenance CAPEX = $0.00 Mil *.
* GuruFocus does not store EPV value into our database if Average Maintenance CAPEX is 0.

7. Investors require a return of "WACC" for the risk they are taking: WACC = 9%

8. Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's current cash and cash equivalent = $0.00 Mil.
Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's current interest bearing debt = Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation = 30.00 + 0.00 = $30 Mil.
Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's current Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) = 9.30 Mil.

Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund's Earnings Power Value (EPV) for Aug23 is calculated as:

EPV = ( ( Norm. Earnings-Maint. CAPEX *) / WACC + CashandEquiv - Int. Bearing Debt ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
= ( ( 0 - 0.00)/ 9%+0.00-30 )/9.30
=-3.23

Margin of Safety (EPV)=( Earnings Power Value (EPV)-Current Price )/Earnings Power Value (EPV)
=( -3.22650032265-10.04 )/-3.22650032265
= N/A

* 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.

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


Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund  (AMEX:ERH) 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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Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund (Allspring Utilities and Highome Fund) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
1415 Vantage Park Drive, 3rd Floor, Charlotte, NC, USA, 28203
Allspring Utilities and High Income Fund is a diversified closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek a high level of current income and moderate capital growth, with an emphasis on providing tax-advantaged dividend income. The company's investment portfolio includes direct debt instruments, which are interests in amounts owed to lenders by corporate or other borrowers. It also invests in various industries which includes auto components, hotels, household durables, media, specialty retail, apparel, oil, gas, consumable fuels, industrials, information technology, telecommunication services, financial and healthcare. Its investment advisor is Wells Fargo Funds Management LLC.
Executives
Jennifer Lea Grunberg officer: Chief Compliance Officer 350 PARK AVENUE, ALLSPRING GLOBAL INVESTMENTS, NEW YORK NY 10022
Paul Werner Felsch officer: Chief Complaince Officer 100 HERITAGE RESERVE, ALLSPRING GLOBAL INVESTMENTS, MENOMONEE FALLS WI 53051
Jane A Freeman director ALLSPRING FUNDS MANAGEMENT, LLC, 525 MARKET STREET, 12TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Christopher Micah Baker officer: Chief Compliance Officer ALLSPRING GLOBAL INVESTMENTS, 101 SEAPORT BLVD, BOSTON MA 02356
Karin Brotman officer: Chief Compliance Officer ALLSPRING GLOBAL INVESTMENTS, 525 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Kate Sandman Mckinley officer: Chief Compliance Officer ALLSPRING GLOBAL INVESTMENTS, 101 SEAPORT BLVD, BOSTON MA 02210
Richard Matthew Prasse officer: Secretary WELLS FARGO LAW DEPARTMENT, 125 HIGH STREET, FLOOR 13, BOSTON MA 02110-2704
Christopher M Lee other: Portfolio Manager WELLS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, 525 MARKET STREET, 12TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105
Michael Joseph Schueller other: Portfolio Manager 100 HERITAGE RESERVE, 2ND FLOOR, WELLS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, MENOMONEE FALLS WI 53051-4400
Jack E Spudich other: Portfolio Manager 1 N JEFFERSON AVE, 7TH FLOOR, SAINT LOUIS MT 63103-2205
Kent A Newcomb other: Portfolio Manager 1 N JEFFERSON AVE, 7TH FLOOR, SAINT LOUIS MT 63103-2205
Daniel J. Mavico officer: Chief Compliance Officer 401 S TRYON STREET, FLOOR 2, CHARLOTTE NC 28202-1911
Kevin T. Roskopf other: Share Repurchase Committee Mem WELLS FARGO ASSET MANAGEMENT, 100 HERITAGE RESERVE, 1ST FLOOR, MENOMONEE FALLS WI 53051-4400
Andrew R Tuttle officer: Portfolio Mgr. 25 RECREATION PARK DRIVE, SUITE 206, HINGHAM MA 02043
William R. Ebsworth director WELLS FARGO FUNDS MANAGEMENT, LLC, 525 MARKET STREET, 12TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94105