As of today (2024-04-17), Stericycle's share price is $48.74.
Stericycle's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.21. Hence, Stericycle's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio for today is 40.28.
The historical rank and industry rank for Stericycle's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow or its related term are showing as below:
SRCL'
s Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 13.15 Med: 28.19 Max: 708.16
Current: 40.23
During the past 13 years, Stericycle's highest Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio was 708.16. The lowest was 13.15. And the median was 28.19.
SRCL's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is ranked worse than 74.79% of 119
companies
in the Waste Management industry
Industry Median: 16.41
vs SRCL: 40.23
During the past 12 months, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Stericycle was 64.70% per year.
During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -35.40% per year.
During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 16.70% per year.
During the past 10 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -13.70% per year.
During the past 13 years, Stericycle's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 71.60% per year. The lowest was -509.60% per year. And the median was 8.00% per year.
Stericycle Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Historical Data
The historical data trend for Stericycle'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.
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Stericycle Annual Data
Trend
Dec14
Dec15
Dec16
Dec17
Dec18
Dec19
Dec20
Dec21
Dec22
Dec23
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow
107.97
15.44
29.41
67.79
40.89
Stericycle Quarterly Data
Mar19
Jun19
Sep19
Dec19
Mar20
Jun20
Sep20
Dec20
Mar21
Jun21
Sep21
Dec21
Mar22
Jun22
Sep22
Dec22
Mar23
Jun23
Sep23
Dec23
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow
67.79
25.61
17.34
18.62
40.89
Competitive Comparison
For the Waste Management subindustry, Stericycle'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.
Stericycle Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution
For the Waste Management industry and Industrials sector, Stericycle's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Stericycle's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.
Stericycle Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation
Stericycle's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow ratio for today is calculated as
Stericycle's Share Price of today is $48.74.
Stericycle's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1.21.
* 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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Stericycle is the largest provider of medical waste disposal and data destruction (primarily paper shredding) services in the United States. Its next closest national competitor in the medical waste disposal space is Sharps Compliance, which generated $76 million of sales in fiscal 2021 before its 2022 acquisition (about 4% of Stericycle's global regulated waste and compliance revenue). Stericycle's data destruction business (Shred-It) is about twice the size of its closest competitor (Iron Mountain's information destruction segment). Stericycle has a global presence, with about 20% of its revenue earned outside North America.
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