Affinity Education Group's total free cash flow for the
months ended in Jun. 2015 was
€5.6 Mil.
Affinity Education Group does not have enough years/quarters to calculate the total free cash flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015.
Affinity Education Group's Free Cash Flow per Share for the
months ended in Jun. 2015 was €0.03.
Affinity Education Group does not have enough years/quarters to calculate the free cash flow per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jun. 2015.
* 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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Affinity Education Group Free Cash Flow Chart
Affinity Education Group Annual Data
Trend
Dec14
Free Cash Flow
1.53
Affinity Education Group Semi-Annual Data
Jun14
Dec14
Jun15
Free Cash Flow
-0.09
1.62
5.61
Affinity Education Group Free Cash Flow Calculation
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.
Affinity Education Group's Free Cash Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2014 is calculated as
* 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.
Affinity Education Group (FRA:A0J) Free Cash Flow Explanation
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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Affinity Education Group Ltd was incorporated on 21st May, 2013. The Company provides education and care to children aged six weeks to 12 years. Provision of these services includes long day care, before and after school care and occasional care. Its segments include Long day care centers, Outside school-hours care, Family day care, and Occasional care. Long day care centers are set up to primarily offer care to below school age children with working parents. The care can be both full-and-part time. Outside school-hours care provides before and after school short-term care to children of primary school age. Vacation care is also considered part of this segment, providing child care services to parents during school holidays. Family day care is the only area of child care approved under the National Quality Framework that takes place outside of a center, with care provided in the home of an approved educator. This type of care can be all day, part time, occasional or outside school hours. Occasional care offers child care services for children on a casual basis. Centers offering occasional services are primarily set up to provide flexibility to parents with irregular working hours or short-term needs. As with family day care, occasional care is a capped program.
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