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Cision (Cision) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow : 22.97 (As of Apr. 26, 2024)


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What is Cision Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow?

As of today (2024-04-26), Cision's share price is $9.99. Cision's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2019 was $0.44. Hence, Cision's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio for today is 22.97.

The historical rank and industry rank for Cision's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow or its related term are showing as below:

CISN's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is not ranked *
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 23.24
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow only.

Cision's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Sep. 2019 was $0.17. Its Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in was $0.44.


Cision Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cision's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow 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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Cision Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Chart

Cision Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow
- - 12.06 16.23

Cision Quarterly Data
Jul15 Dec15 Mar16 Jun16 Sep16 Dec16 Mar17 Jun17 Sep17 Dec17 Mar18 Jun18 Sep18 Dec18 Mar19 Jun19 Sep19
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow 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 21.54 16.23 22.50 28.82 17.68

Competitive Comparison of Cision's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow

For the Software - Application subindustry, Cision'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.


Cision's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Cision Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation

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

Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio=Share Price/ Free Cash Flow per Share (TTM)
=9.99/0.435
=22.97

Cision's Share Price of today is $9.99.
Cision's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2019 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $0.44.

* 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:

Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio=Market Cap/Free Cash Flow

Cision  (NYSE:CISN) 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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Cision (Cision) Business Description

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Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
130 East Randolph Street, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL, USA, 60601
Cision Ltd is a media communication technology and analytics company. It has created Cision Communications Cloud, an earned media cloud-based platform. Its solutions also include PR Newswire, Gorkana, PRWeb, Help a Reporter Out (HARO) and iContact.
Executives
David J Krantz director 5445 TRIANGLE PARKWAY, SUITE 400, PEACHTREE CORNERS 2Q 30092
Mark Ein director
L. Dyson Dryden director 305 WEST PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, TOWSON MD 21204
Susan Vobejda director 130 EAST RANDOLPH STREET, 7TH FLOOR, CHICAGO IL 60601
Stuart J Yarbrough director 303 PERIMETER CENTER NORTH, SUITE 600, ATLANTA GA 30346