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Capital Appreciation (JSE:CTA) Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow : 43.46 (As of May. 17, 2024)


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What is Capital Appreciation Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow?

As of today (2024-05-17), Capital Appreciation's share price is R1.13. Capital Appreciation's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was R0.03. Hence, Capital Appreciation's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio for today is 43.46.

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

JSE:CTA' s Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 8.24   Med: 19.05   Max: 47.62
Current: 43.47

During the past 8 years, Capital Appreciation's highest Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Ratio was 47.62. The lowest was 8.24. And the median was 19.05.

JSE:CTA's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is ranked worse than
73.2% of 1474 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 22.685 vs JSE:CTA: 43.47

Capital Appreciation's Free Cash Flow per Share for the six months ended in Sep. 2023 was R0.05. Its Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in was R0.03.

During the past 12 months, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Capital Appreciation was -75.20% per year.

During the past 8 years, Capital Appreciation's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 47.20% per year. The lowest was -11.80% per year. And the median was 12.35% per year.


Capital Appreciation Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Capital Appreciation'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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Capital Appreciation Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Chart

Capital Appreciation Annual Data
Trend Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23
Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow
Get a 7-Day Free Trial 11.04 8.82 15.87 40.22 -

Capital Appreciation Semi-Annual Data
Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23
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 - 40.22 - - -

Competitive Comparison of Capital Appreciation's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Capital Appreciation'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.


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

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

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



Capital Appreciation Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Calculation

Capital Appreciation'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)
=1.13/0.026
=43.46

Capital Appreciation's Share Price of today is R1.13.
For company reported semi-annually, GuruFocus uses latest annual data as the TTM data. Capital Appreciation's Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2023 was R0.03.

* 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

Capital Appreciation  (JSE:CTA) 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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Capital Appreciation (JSE:CTA) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
44 Saturn Crescent, Unit 2, Linbro Business Park, Sandton, Johannesburg, GT, ZAF, 2090
Capital Appreciation Ltd is a South Africa based company that owns, manages, invests in, and promotes established and developing financial technology enterprises, their platforms, solutions, products, and applications. The company operates in Fintech and Financial service sector. The company operates in three segments that include Payments and Payment Infrastructure Services and Software and Services, and an International Divison. The majority of the revenue is generated from the payments division. All of its revenue is generated from South Africa.

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