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Tel Instrument Electronics (Tel Instrument Electronics) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : $1.69 (As of Dec23)


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What is Tel Instrument Electronics Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of Dec23, Tel Instrument Electronics's earnings power value is $1.69. *

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

Margin of Safety is -9.48

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.


Tel Instrument Electronics Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Tel Instrument Electronics'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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Tel Instrument Electronics Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

Tel Instrument Electronics Annual Data
Trend Mar14 Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Earnings Power Value (EPV)
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.39 3.32 2.25 2.22 3.91

Tel Instrument Electronics Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Earnings Power Value (EPV) Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.03 3.91 3.36 3.31 1.69

Competitive Comparison of Tel Instrument Electronics's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Aerospace & Defense subindustry, Tel Instrument Electronics'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.


Tel Instrument Electronics's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Aerospace & Defense Industry

For the Aerospace & Defense industry and Industrials sector, Tel Instrument Electronics's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Tel Instrument Electronics's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



Tel Instrument Electronics 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.

Tel Instrument Electronics's "Earning Power" Calculation:

Average of Last 20 Quarters Last Quarter
Revenue 11.97
DDA 0.16
Operating Margin % 3.04
SGA * 25% 0.55
Tax Rate % -19.05
Maintenance Capex 0.06
Cash and Cash Equivalents 0.22
Short-Term Debt 0.90
Long-Term Debt 1.17
Shares Outstanding (Diluted) 5.61

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 = 3.04%

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 = $11.97 Mil, Average Operating Margin = 3.04%, Average Adjusted SGA = 0.55,
therefore "Normalized" EBIT = Sustainable Revenue * Average Operating Margin + Average Adjusted SGA = 11.97 * 3.04% +0.55 = $0.91743735 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 = -19.05%, and "Normalized" EBIT = $0.91743735 Mil,
therefore After-tax "Normalized" EBIT = "Normalized" EBIT * ( 1 - Average Tax Rate ) = 0.91743735 * ( 1 - -19.05% ) = $1.092172467681 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) = 0.16 * 0.5 * -19.05% = $-0.014779696 Mil.
"Normalized" Earnings = After-tax "Normalized" EBIT + Excess Depreciation = 1.092172467681 + -0.014779696 = $1.077392771681 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.
Tel Instrument Electronics's Average Maintenance CAPEX = $0.06 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. Tel Instrument Electronics's current cash and cash equivalent = $0.22 Mil.
Tel Instrument Electronics's current interest bearing debt = Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation = 1.17 + 0.90 = $2.066 Mil.
Tel Instrument Electronics's current Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) = 5.61 Mil.

Tel Instrument Electronics's Earnings Power Value (EPV) for Dec23 is calculated as:

EPV = ( ( Norm. Earnings-Maint. CAPEX *) / WACC + CashandEquiv - Int. Bearing Debt ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
= ( ( 1.077392771681 - 0.06)/ 9%+0.22-2.066 )/5.61
=1.69

Margin of Safety (EPV)=( Earnings Power Value (EPV)-Current Price )/Earnings Power Value (EPV)
=( 1.6898211284996-1.85 )/1.6898211284996
= -9.48%

* 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.


Tel Instrument Electronics  (OTCPK:TIKK) 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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Tel Instrument Electronics (Tel Instrument Electronics) Business Description

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Address
One Branca Road, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073
Tel Instrument Electronics Corp is a designer and manufacturer of avionics test and measurement solutions for the global commercial air transport, general aviation, and government, military aerospace, and defense markets. It designs, manufactures and sells instruments to test and measure, and calibrates and repairs airborne navigation and communication equipment. The company's reportable segments are Avionics government and Avionics commercial. The avionics government segment consists of the design, manufacture, and sale of test equipment to the U.S. and foreign governments and militaries. The Avionics commercial segment consists of design, manufacture, and sale of test equipment to domestic and foreign airlines. It generates a majority of its revenue from the Avionics Government segment.
Executives
Dowling Vincent J. Jr 10 percent owner 54 LEDYARD, WEST HARTFORD CT 06117
Robert A Rice director 728 GARDEN ST, CARLSTADT NJ 07072
Joseph P Macaluso 10 percent owner, officer: Principal Accounting Officer
Stephen A Fletcher director, 10 percent owner ONE BRANCA RD, EAST RUTHERFORD NJ 07073-2121
Sadie Elizabeth Fletcher 10 percent owner ONE BRANCA RD, EAST RUTHERFORD NJ 07073-2121
Michael Wolfgang Schirmer officer: Chief Operating Officer ONE BRANCA ROAD, EAST RUTHERFORD NJ 07073
Jeff C Ohara director ONE BRANCA RD, EAST RUTHERFORD NJ 07073
George J Leon director, 10 percent owner
Chris H Allen officer: VP of Operations ONE BRANCA RD, EAST RUTHERFORD NJ 07073
Harold K Fletcher director, 10 percent owner, officer: CEO
Marc A Mastrangelo officer: Vice President-Manufacturing 728 GARDEN ST, CARLSTADT NJ 07072
Adam Rachlin officer: Vice President 728 GARDEN ST, CARLSTADT NJ 07072
Charles R Palanzo officer: COO 728 GARDEN STREET, CARLSTADT NJ 07072
Robert H Walker director C/O ROBOTIC VISION SYSTEMS INC, 486 AMHERST STREET, NASHUA NH 03063
Robert J Melnick director, officer: Vice President

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