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Symmetry Surgical (FRA:RZV) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate : 154.60% (As of Sep. 2014)


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What is Symmetry Surgical 3-Year FCF Growth Rate?

Symmetry Surgical's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Sep. 2014 was €0.25.

During the past 12 months, Symmetry Surgical's average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -10.20% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 154.60% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 35.00% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 12.90% per year. 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 average Free Cash Flow per Share growth rate.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Symmetry Surgical was 154.60% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was 4.00% per year.


Competitive Comparison of Symmetry Surgical's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate

For the Medical Devices subindustry, Symmetry Surgical's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year FCF Growth Rate 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.


Symmetry Surgical's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Symmetry Surgical's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

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Symmetry Surgical 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Calculation

This is the 3-year average growth rate of Free Cash Flow per Share. The growth rate is calculated using exponential compounding based on the latest four year annual data.

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Symmetry Surgical  (FRA:RZV) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Explanation

Free Cash Flow per Share is the amount of Free Cash Flow 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. It's used in the calculation of Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %.


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Symmetry Surgical (FRA:RZV) Business Description

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Symmetry Medical, Inc., is a Delaware corporation incorporated on July 25, 1996. It is a source of medical device products. The Company provides medical device solutions, including surgical instruments, orthopedic implants, and sterilization cases and trays. The Company designs, develops and offers worldwide production and supply chain capabilities for these products to customers in the orthopedic industry and other medical device markets. It also manufactures specialized non-healthcare products, mainly in the aerospace industry. It operates in two reportable segments namely Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Solutions and Symmetry Surgical. Its main products produced in the OEM Solutions segment include: implants, including forged, cast and machined products for the global orthopedic device market; instruments used in the placement and removal of orthopedic implants and in other surgical procedures; cases, including plastic, metal and hybrid cases used to organize, secure and transport medical devices for orthopedic, endoscopy, dental and other surgical procedures; and other specialized products for the aerospace market. Symmetry Surgical is its new business segment. It arose from the integration of the Codman and Olsen Medical lines of surgical instruments with its Company's already existing hospital direct business, Specialty Surgical Instrumentation (SSI). Symmetry Surgical, which is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee offers reusable stainless steel and titanium surgical hand-held instruments and retractor systems, sterile disposable surgical products, and sterilization containers. These products are used in the surgical specialties of spine, general/obstetrics/gynecology, microsurgery/neurosurgery, orthopedics, and laparoscopy, cardiovascular, thoracic and general surgery in the hospital setting as well as surgery centers and in select physician offices. The Company's OEM Solutions segment has manufacturing facilities in the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Malaysia. The Company's subject to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations governing the emission, discharge, use, storage and disposal of hazardous materials and the remediation of contamination associated with the release of these materials at our facilities and at off-site disposal locations.

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