As of today (2024-06-23), Compuware's share price is €7.98.
Compuware's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 was €0.34. Hence, Compuware's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio for today is 23.82.
The historical rank and industry rank for Compuware's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow or its related term are showing as below:
FRA:CWR'
s Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 6.34 Med: 15.91 Max: 279.2
Current: 22.02
During the past 13 years, Compuware's highest Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio was 279.20. The lowest was 6.34. And the median was 15.91.
FRA:CWR's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is not ranked
in the Software industry.
Industry Median: 22.57
vs FRA:CWR: 22.02
During the past 12 months, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Compuware was 4.40% per year.
During the past 13 years, Compuware's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 82.30% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was 5.60% per year.
Compuware Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Historical Data
The historical data trend for Compuware'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.
Competitive Comparison of Compuware's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow
For the Software - Application subindustry, Compuware'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.
Compuware's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Software Industry
For the Software industry and Technology sector, Compuware's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:
* The bar in red indicates where Compuware's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.
Compuware Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation
Compuware's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow ratio for today is calculated as
Compuware's Share Price of today is €7.98. Compuware's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2014 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was €0.34.
* 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:
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.
Compuware Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Related Terms
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Compuware Corp a Michigan corporation was incorporated in 1973. The Company delivers services and software that enable its customers' important technologies to perform at their peak. It delivers the solutions through software that is installed and run on its customers' owned hardware and applications and through a Software as a Service ('SaaS') model accessed via its hosted networks. It has six business segments: Application Performance Managemen (APM), Mainframe, Changepoint, Uniface, Professional Services and Covisint Application Services ('Covisint'). Its Compuware Application Performance Management ('Compuware APM') consists of its solutions for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Its Mainframe Software Products improve the productivity of development, maintenance and support teams in application analysis, testing, defect detection and remediation, fault management, file and data management, data compliance and application performance management in the IBM z/OS environment. Its Changepoint software combines professional services automation with project portfolio management capabilities to give customers complete visibility into projects, investments and resources for informed business planning and financial control. Its Uniface solution is Compuware's Rapid Application Development environment for building, renewing and integrating some of the complex enterprise applications. Its Covisint application services provide a cloud engagement platform for enabling organizations to securely connect, engage and collaborate with large, distributed communities of customers, business partners and suppliers. Its products and services are used by the IT departments and lines of business of a of commercial and government organizations. Its competitors include BMC Software Inc., CA, Inc., International Business Machines ('IBM'), Hewlett-Packard Company, Keynote Systems, Inc., Accenture, Computer Sciences Corporation, HP Enterprise Services, Analysts International Corporation and Infosys Technologies.
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