What is Constant Contact Free Cash Flow per Share?
Constant Contact's Free Cash Flow per Share for the
three
months ended in Sep. 2015 was $0.24.
Its Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 was $1.13.
Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the FCF Growth Rate using Free Cash Flow per Share data.
The historical rank and industry rank for Constant Contact's Free Cash Flow per Share or its related term are showing as below:
CTCT's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate is not ranked *
in the Media - Diversified industry.
Industry Median: 0.4 * Ranked among companies with meaningful 3-Year FCF Growth Rate only.
Constant Contact Free Cash Flow per Share Historical Data
The historical data trend for Constant Contact's Free Cash Flow per Share 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 Constant Contact's Free Cash Flow per Share
For the Advertising Agencies subindustry, Constant Contact'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.
Constant Contact's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Media - Diversified Industry
For the Media - Diversified industry and Communication Services sector, Constant Contact's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Constant Contact's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.
Constant Contact Free Cash Flow per Share Calculation
Free Cashflow per Share is the amount of Free Cashflow per outstanding share of the company's stock.
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.
Note: GuruFocus does not calculate Free Cash Flow Per Share when Capital Expenditure is 0.
Constant Contact's Free Cash Flow Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as
Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.13
* 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.
Constant Contact (NAS:CTCT) Free Cash Flow per Share 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.
Constant Contact Free Cash Flow per Share Related Terms
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Constant Contact (Constant Contact) Business Description
Constant Contact Inc was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1995 under the name Roving Software Incorporated. The Company provides online marketing tools that are designed for small organizations, including small businesses, associations and non-profits. Its suite of online marketing tools, which include Email Marketing, EventSpot, Social Campaigns, SaveLocal, SinglePlatform and Survey, enable its customers to launch and monitor marketing campaigns across multiple channels, including email, social media, events, local deals, online listings and surveys. Its customers include various types of small organizations including retailers, restaurants, law and accounting firms, consultants, non-profits, religious organizations and alumni associations. Its email marketing product allows customers to easily create, send and track professional-looking email campaigns. The product includes a campaign creation wizard that makes it easy to create and edit email campaigns with access to over 300 pre-designed email campaign templates that reflect a wide variety of themes and styles and over 15 million images through its relationship with Bigstock, a subsidiary of Shutterstock, Inc. The Company also offers market leading free tools and applications that allow customers to add and update contacts, including adding contacts directly from a computer or point of sale device. Its event marketing product allows its customers to promote and manage events, communicate with invitees and registrants, capture and track registrations and collect online payments. The Company's social media products include Social Campaigns, which empowers customers to reach and engage users on Facebook to grow their fans and create social word-of-mouth through easy-to-create offers and promotions. SaveLocal provides service to its customers to retain existing customers and attract new customers by creating, running and managing local deals, and provides them with end-to-end control over their deals at an affordable price. The Company's online survey product enables its customers to survey their customers or members and analyze responses. SinglePlatform provides its customers the power to manage all of their key online listings from one place by helping them to create a content rich digital storefront, which can include menus, photos, services, offers and featured products. As of December 31, 2013, the Company served a large and diverse group of approximately 595,000 unique paying customers. Its Social Campaigns product competes with offerings by Offerpop Corporation, Pagemodo, a subsidiary of VistaPrint N.V., Vocus Social Media LLC doing business as North Social and Wildfire Interactive, Inc. Its SaveLocal product competes with offerings by Groupon, Inc., LivingSocial, Inc., Amazon Local and Google Offers. Its SinglePlatform product competes with offerings by Yext, Inc. and Locu Inc., a subsidiary of GoDaddy.com, LLC. Its survey product competes with offerings by Surveymonkey.c
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