Planet Payment (Planet Payment) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow

Planet Payment Annual Data
	Trend	Dec07	Dec08	Dec09	Dec10	Dec11	Dec12	Dec13	Dec14	Dec15	Dec16
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					-	1,390.00	30.59	14.88	22.05

Planet Payment Quarterly Data
	Dec12	Mar13	Jun13	Sep13	Dec13	Mar14	Jun14	Sep14	Dec14	Mar15	Jun15	Sep15	Dec15	Mar16	Jun16	Sep16	Dec16	Mar17	Jun17	Sep17
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															20.96	22.05	23.01	17.28	23.68

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Planet Payment'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.

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Planet Payment's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Planet Payment's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.

Planet Payment Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation

Planet Payment's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow ratio for today is calculated as

Planet Payment's Share Price of today is $4.49.
Planet Payment's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2017 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.18.

* 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.

It can also be calculated from the numbers for the whole company:

Planet Payment  (NAS:PLPM) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Explanation

Free Cash Flow is considered more important than earnings by value investors. The reason is because, in principle, only the net cash that can be taken from the business belongs to shareholders. This Free Cash Flow can be used to grow the business, reduce debt or return to shareholders in dividends or share buybacks.

In a DCF Calculation Free Cash Flow is used to determine the intrinsic value of companies.

Be Aware

In real business, Free Cash Flow can be affected by the change in accounts receivable, accounts payable, management's decision on expansion, etc. Therefore, investors should look at the Free Cash Flow over the longer term. Long-term average of Free Cash Flow is a more reliable indicator for real free cash flow.

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