AEP Industries's total free cash flow for the
months ended in Oct. 2016 was
$18 Mil.
Its total free cash flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2016 was $68 Mil.
AEP Industries's Free Cash Flow per Share for the
months ended in Oct. 2016 was $3.42.
Its free cash flow per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2016 was $13.32.
The historical data trend for AEP Industries's 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.
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.
AEP Industries's Free Cash Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Oct. 2016 is calculated as
Free Cash Flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $68 Mil.
* 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.
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.
* 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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AEP Industries (AEP Industries) Business Description
AEP Industries Inc was founded in 1970 and incorporated in Delaware in 1985. The Company is a manufacturer of plastic packaging films in North America. It manufactures and markets a diverse line of polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride and polypropylene flexible packaging products, with consumer, industrial and agricultural applications. The Company's plastic packaging films are used in the packaging, transportation, beverage, food, automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, constructions, agriculture and textile industries. It manufactures plastic films, mainly from resins blended with other raw materials, which it either sell or further process by printing, laminating, slitting or converting. The Company's processing technologies enable it to create a variety of value-added products according to the specifications of its customers. Its manufacturing operations are located in the United States and Canada. It manufactures both industrial grade products, which are manufactured to general industry specifications, and specialty products, which are manufactured under more exacting standards to assure certain required chemical and physical properties. Specialty products generally sell at higher margins than industrial grade products. It manufactures custom films, generally for industrial applications, including sheeting, tubing and bags. The Company manufactures a line of stretch film products for both hand wrap and rotary applications, using both monolayer and co-extruded constructions used to wrap pallets of industrial and commercial goods for shipping or storage. The Company manufacture specifically formulated in-store and pre-store films with its Resinite line of polyvinyl chloride food wrap for the supermarket and industrial markets. It offers product with approximately 50 different formulations. Its Griffin, Georgia facility also produces dispenser (ZipSafe cutter) boxes containing polyvinyl chloride food wrap for sale to consumers and institutions, including restaurants, schools, hospitals and penitentiaries. The Company's PROformance films are used for food, pharmaceutical and medical applications and are available in up to five layers for applications requiring strength, clarity, sealability, barrier properties against oxygen or moisture transmission, and breathability for preserving freshness. Its canliners product line includes retail kitchen and standard trash bags and others. The Company manufactures approximately ten color printing, sheeting, and wicketed bags. It's printed and converted films provide printed rollstock to the food and beverage industries and other manufacturing and distributing companies. It also converts printed rollstock to bags and pouches for use by bakeries, fresh or frozen food processors, manufacturers or other dry goods processors. The Company's operations are conducted within one business segment-the production, manufacture and distribution of flexible plastic packaging products, for the food
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