WCI Communities's total free cash flow for the
months ended in Sep. 2016 was
$-9.1 Mil.
Its total free cash flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2016 was $-68.3 Mil.
WCI Communities's Free Cash Flow per Share for the
months ended in Sep. 2016 was $-0.34.
Its free cash flow per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2016 was $-2.57.
The historical data trend for WCI Communities'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.
WCI Communities's Free Cash Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2015 is calculated as
Free Cash Flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Sep. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-68.3 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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WCI Communities (WCI Communities) Business Description
WCI Communities Inc was incorporated in Delaware in 2009 and its predecessor company was founded in 1998. The Company is a lifestyle community developer and luxury homebuilder of single- and multi-family homes, including luxury high-rise tower units, in coastal Florida's growth markets. It owned or controlled approximately 13,300 home sites of which approximately 7,900 were owned and 5,400 were controlled by the Company. Its business is organized into three operating segments: Homebuilding, Real Estate Services and Amenities. Homebuilding segment designs, sells and builds single- and multi-family homes ranging in price from approximately $170,000 to $1.1 million and tower units ranging in price from $1.0 million to $3.6 million. Its product offerings range in size from approximately 1,100 square feet to 5,100 square feet. Additionally, its land development expertise enhances its homebuilding operations by enabling the Company to acquire and create well-amenitized master-planned communities, control the timing of home site delivery and capture the opportunity to drive margins. It actively sells in 47 different neighborhoods situated in 18 master-planned communities. Real Estate Services segment operates a full-service real estate brokerage business under the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices brand and title services that complement its homebuilding operations by providing with additional opportunities to capitalize on increasing home prices throughout Florida. It provides these services in connection with its real estate brokerage and homebuilding operations. In Amenities segment, within its communities, it may own and/or operate resort-style club and fitness facilities, championship golf courses, country clubs and marinas. The Company competes in each of its markets with other local, regional and national homebuilders. It not only competes for homebuyers, but also for desirable land assets, financing, building materials, skilled management talent and trade labor. It also competes with other housing alternatives, such as existing home sales (including lender-owned homes acquired through foreclosure or short sales) and rental housing. Its homebuilding competitors, including larger public companies, may have long-standing relationships with local labor, materials suppliers or land sellers in certain areas, which may provide them an advantage in their respective regions or local markets. Its real estate brokerage business competes with national and regional independent real estate organizations, franchisees of national and regional real estate franchisors, discount brokerages and smaller niche companies competing in local areas. Real estate brokers compete for sales and marketing business on the basis of services offered, reputation, utilization of technology, personal contacts and brokerage commission.
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