As of today (2024-04-26), CA's share price is $44.44.
CA's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2018 was $2.57. Hence, CA's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio for today is 17.31.
The historical rank and industry rank for CA's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow or its related term are showing as below:
CA's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 23.24 * Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow only.
The historical data trend for CA'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 CA's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow
For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, CA'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.
CA's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, CA's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where CA's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.
CA Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation
CA's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow ratio for today is calculated as
CA's Share Price of today is $44.44. CA's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2018 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $2.57.
* 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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CA Technologies develops and sells software and services through three business segments: mainframe solutions, enterprise solutions, and services. Mainframe solutions helps customers lower the cost of mainframe management and maintenance; enterprise solutions helps customers manage and service nonmainframe IT platforms; and the services business helps customers with implementation, training, and deployment. The mainframe solutions segment contributes over 50% of the firm's revenue and the majority of its profits.
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