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Barry Callebaut AG (Barry Callebaut AG) Free Cash Flow per Share : $-174.50 (TTM As of Feb. 2024)


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What is Barry Callebaut AG Free Cash Flow per Share?

Barry Callebaut AG's Free Cash Flow per Share for the six months ended in Feb. 2024 was $-234.24. Its Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 was $-174.50.

During the past 12 months, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Barry Callebaut AG was -534.80% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -34.10% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -16.30% 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 FCF Growth Rate using Free Cash Flow per Share data.

The historical rank and industry rank for Barry Callebaut AG's Free Cash Flow per Share or its related term are showing as below:

BYCBF' s 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -458.9   Med: -1.3   Max: 116.9
Current: -34.1

During the past 13 years, Barry Callebaut AG's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 116.90% per year. The lowest was -458.90% per year. And the median was -1.30% per year.

BYCBF's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate is ranked worse than
81.04% of 1150 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: -0.4 vs BYCBF: -34.10

Barry Callebaut AG Free Cash Flow per Share Historical Data

The historical data trend for Barry Callebaut AG's Free Cash Flow per Share 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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Barry Callebaut AG Free Cash Flow per Share Chart

Barry Callebaut AG Annual Data
Trend Aug14 Aug15 Aug16 Aug17 Aug18 Aug19 Aug20 Aug21 Aug22 Aug23
Free Cash Flow per Share
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 51.22 62.48 67.70 46.73 18.53

Barry Callebaut AG Semi-Annual Data
Aug14 Feb15 Aug15 Feb16 Aug16 Feb17 Aug17 Feb18 Aug18 Feb19 Aug19 Feb20 Aug20 Feb21 Aug21 Feb22 Aug22 Feb23 Aug23 Feb24
Free Cash Flow per Share 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 -28.84 74.54 -39.08 59.74 -234.24

Competitive Comparison of Barry Callebaut AG's Free Cash Flow per Share

For the Confectioners subindustry, Barry Callebaut AG'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.


Barry Callebaut AG's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Barry Callebaut AG's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Barry Callebaut AG's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.



Barry Callebaut AG Free Cash Flow per Share Calculation

Free Cashflow per Share is the amount of Free Cashflow 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.

Note: GuruFocus does not calculate Free Cash Flow Per Share when Capital Expenditure is 0.

Barry Callebaut AG's Free Cash Flow Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Aug. 2023 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow Per Share(A: Aug. 2023 )
=(Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure)/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=(376.367+-274.582)/5.492
=101.785/5.492
=18.53

Barry Callebaut AG's Free Cash Flow Per Share for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow Per Share(Q: Feb. 2024 )
=(Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure)/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=(-1152.241+-133.261)/5.488
=-1285.502/5.488
=-234.24

Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Feb. 2024 adds up the semi-annually data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-174.50

* 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.


Barry Callebaut AG  (OTCPK:BYCBF) Free Cash Flow per Share Explanation

Free Cash Flow is very close to Warren Buffett's definition of Owner's Earnings, except that in Warren Buffett's Owner's Earnings, the spending for Property, Plant, and Equipment is only for maintenance (replacement), while in the Free Cash Flow calculation, the cost of new Property, Plant, and Equipment due to business expansion is also deducted. There, Free Cash Flow is more conservative than Owner's Earnings.

In Don Yacktman's calculation of forward rate of return, he uses Free Cash Flow for the calculation. Yacktman explained the forward rate of return concept in detail in his interview with GuruFocus. Yacktman defines forward rate of return as the normalized free cash flow yield plus real growth plus inflation.

This is what Yacktman said in his March 2012 interview - when the S&P 500 was at 1400:

If the business is stable, this calculation is fairly straightforward. For instance, on the S&P 500 we would normalize earnings. We would then calculate what percentage of those earnings are not reinvested in the underlying businesses and are therefore free. Historically, for the S&P 500, this has been just under 50% of earnings. Currently, we expect the S&P to earn about 70 on a normalized basis, a number which is far below reported earnings due to our adjusting for record high profit margins. $70 X ½ / 1400 gives you a normalized free cash flow yield of approximately 2.5%.

The historical real growth rate of the S&P 500 (companies) is about 1.5%. Assuming an inflation rate of 2.5%, the forward rate of return on an investment in the S&P 500 is about 6.5% today (2.5% free cash flow yield plus 1.5% real growth plus 2.5% inflation).

For the growth part of the Forward Rate of Return calculation, GuruFocus uses the 5-year average growth rate of EBITDA per share as the growth rate, and the growth rate is always capped at 20%. For the Free Cash Flow we use per share data averaged over seven years. The reason we use seven years is because research shows that seven years is the length of the typical business cycle.

Therefore, as of Aug23, Barry Callebaut AG's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % is

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % (Aug23)=Normalized Free Cash Flow/Price+5-Year EBITDA Growth Rate
=50.20866667/1730+0.0533
=8.23 %

* 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.


Be Aware

Free Cash Flow within a report period can be affected by management's decisions of capital spending. Therefore, it is important to look at long term when it comes to Free Cash Flow.


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Barry Callebaut AG (Barry Callebaut AG) Business Description

Address
Hardturmstrasse 181, Zurich, CHE, 8005
Barry Callebaut is a significant manufacturer and supplier of cocoa and chocolate ingredients, employing over 13,000 people. Customers include food and beverage makers as well as craftspeople, chocolatiers, pastry chefs, and bakers who utilize chocolate professionally. Barry Callebaut is vertically integrated from raw material (cocoa bean) procurement through chocolate manufacture, while not owning any cocoa farms. The firm produces around 40% of the world's industrial chocolate (open market), and its products are used in approximately 20% of the world's chocolate and cocoa goods. Barry Callebaut's sustainability endeavors are reflected in the fact that the company's Sustainalytics ESG Risk Rating is one of the lowest in its subcategory and first among its peers.

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