GDS Holdings (GDS Holdings) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate : 25.40% (As of Dec. 2023)

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What is GDS Holdings 3-Year FCF Growth Rate?

GDS Holdings's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.28.

During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 25.40% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 5.30% 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 10 years, the highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of GDS Holdings was 25.40% per year. The lowest was -133.50% per year. And the median was -13.30% per year.

Competitive Comparison of GDS Holdings's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, GDS Holdings'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.

GDS Holdings's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, GDS Holdings's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

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GDS Holdings 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.

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.

GDS Holdings (NAS:GDS) 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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GDS Holdings (GDS Holdings) Business Description

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Address

No. 999 Zhouhai Road, F4/F5, Building C, Sunland International, Pudong, Shanghai, CHN, 200137

Website

https://www.gds-services.com

GDS Holdings started as an IT service provider in 2001 then moved to the data center business with its first self-developed data center opening in 2010. The company now develops and operates data centers in China and also builds, operates and transfers data centers for other clients. It offers colocation and managed services and mainly targets hyperscale cloud service customers who take large areas of its data centers or even whole data centers under long-term contracts. It has aggressively raised capital over the past four years for expansion. Its data centers are located predominantly in and around the Tier 1 cities in China and it has also started an expanding into Southeast Asia. GDS listed on the NASDAQ in 2016 and completed a secondary listing in Hong Kong in 2020.