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TMQ (Trilogy Metals) Earnings Power Value (EPV) : $0.16 (As of Aug24)


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What is Trilogy Metals Earnings Power Value (EPV)?

As of Aug24, Trilogy Metals's earnings power value is $0.16. *

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

Margin of Safety is -609.31

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.


Trilogy Metals Earnings Power Value (EPV) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Trilogy Metals'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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Trilogy Metals Earnings Power Value (EPV) Chart

Trilogy Metals Annual Data
Trend Nov14 Nov15 Nov16 Nov17 Nov18 Nov19 Nov20 Nov21 Nov22 Nov23
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Trilogy Metals Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Trilogy Metals's Earnings Power Value (EPV)

For the Other Industrial Metals & Mining subindustry, Trilogy Metals'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.


Trilogy Metals's Earnings Power Value (EPV) Distribution in the Metals & Mining Industry

For the Metals & Mining industry and Basic Materials sector, Trilogy Metals's Earnings Power Value (EPV) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Trilogy Metals's Earnings Power Value (EPV) falls into.



Trilogy Metals 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.

Trilogy Metals's "Earning Power" Calculation:

Average of Last 20 Quarters Last Quarter
Revenue 0.00
DDA 0.05
Operating Margin % 0.00
SGA * 25% 1.95
Tax Rate % 0.00
Maintenance Capex 0.00
Cash and Cash Equivalents 25.74
Short-Term Debt 0.04
Long-Term Debt 0.13
Shares Outstanding (Diluted) 160.54

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 = 0.00%

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 = $0.00 Mil, Average Operating Margin = 0.00%, Average Adjusted SGA = 1.95,
therefore "Normalized" EBIT = Sustainable Revenue * Average Operating Margin + Average Adjusted SGA = 0.00 * 0.00% +1.95 = $ 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 = 0.00%, and "Normalized" EBIT = $ Mil,
therefore After-tax "Normalized" EBIT = "Normalized" EBIT * ( 1 - Average Tax Rate ) = * ( 1 - 0.00% ) = $0 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) = 0.05 * 0.5 * 0.00% = $0 Mil.
"Normalized" Earnings = After-tax "Normalized" EBIT + Excess Depreciation = 0 + 0 = $0 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.
Trilogy Metals's Average Maintenance CAPEX = $0.00 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. Trilogy Metals's current cash and cash equivalent = $25.74 Mil.
Trilogy Metals's current interest bearing debt = Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation = 0.13 + 0.04 = $0.162 Mil.
Trilogy Metals's current Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average) = 160.54 Mil.

Trilogy Metals's Earnings Power Value (EPV) for Aug24 is calculated as:

EPV = ( ( Norm. Earnings-Maint. CAPEX *) / WACC + CashandEquiv - Int. Bearing Debt ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
= ( ( 0 - 0.00)/ 9%+25.74-0.162 )/160.54
=0.16

Margin of Safety (EPV)=( Earnings Power Value (EPV)-Current Price )/Earnings Power Value (EPV)
=( 0.159310336236-1.13 )/0.159310336236
= -609.31%

* 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.


Trilogy Metals  (AMEX:TMQ) 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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Trilogy Metals Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
609 Granville Street, Suite 1150, Vancouver, BC, CAN, V7Y 1G5
Trilogy Metals Inc is an exploration stage company engaged in mineral exploration. The company focuses on exploring and developing its mineral resource properties, which include the Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects (UKMP or UKMP Projects), in the Ambler mining district located in Alaska, the United States. Its properties include the Arctic copper-zinc-lead-gold-silver project and other mineralized targets within a volcanogenic massive sulfide belt, and it also has a bornite carbonate-hosted copper project.
Executives
Elaine Sanders officer: VP & CFO C/O TRILOGY METALS, 1950 - 777 DUNSMUIR STREET, VANCOUVER A1 V7Y 1K4
Diana J Walters director 5430 LBJ FREEWAY, SUITE 1800, DALLAS TX 75240
William Beckwith Hayden director C/O TRILOGY METALS INC., SUITE 1950, 777 DUNSMUIR STREET, VANCOUVER A1 V7Y 1K4
Tony Giardini director, officer: President and CEO C/O TRILOGY METALS, 1950 - 777 DUNSMUIR STREET, VANCOUVER A1 V7Y 1K4
Hensley William L. Iggiagruk director C/O TRILOGY METALS INC., SUITE 1150, 609 GRANVILLE STREET, VANCOUVER A1 V7Y 1G5
James Gowans director C/O TRILOGY METALS INC., SUITE 1150, 609 GRANVILLE STREET, VANCOUVER A1 V7Y 1G5
Gregory A. Lang director C/O TRILOGY METALS INC., 1950 - 777 DUNSMUIR STREET, VANCOUVER A1 V7Y 1K4
Kalidas V Madhavpeddi other: Former Director 511 ARROYO SQ, SOUTH PASADENA CA 91030
South32 Ltd 10 percent owner LEVEL 35 108 ST GEORGES TERRACE, PERTH WA C3 6000
Electrum Strategic Opportunities Fund L.p. 10 percent owner, other: Possible Member of 10% Group C/O THE ELECTRUM GROUP LLC, 700 MADISON AVENUE, 5TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10065
Janice Stairs director C/O TRILOGY METALS, 1950 - 777 DUNSMUIR STREET, VANCOUVER A1 V7Y 1K4
Paulson & Co. Inc. 10 percent owner 1133 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, 33RD FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10036
South32 International Investment Holdings Proprietary Ltd 10 percent owner LEVEL 35, 108 ST GEORGES TERRACE, PERTH C3 WA 6000
Nieuwenhuyse Rick Van director, officer: President & CEO C/O TRILOGY METALS, 1950 - 777 DUNSMUIR STREET, VANCOUVER A1 V7Y 1K4
Esof Gp Ltd. 10 percent owner, other: Possible Member of 10% Group C/O THE ELECTRUM GROUP LLC, 700 MADISON AVENUE, 5TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10065