Editas Medicine (Editas Medicine) Free Cash Flow

: $-136.90 Mil (TTM As of Dec. 2023)

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Editas Medicine's total free cash flow for the months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-23.55 Mil. Its total free cash flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-136.90 Mil.

Editas Medicine's Free Cash Flow per Share for the months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-0.29. Its free cash flow per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $-1.83.

During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 17.30% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -17.00% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the Free Cash Flow Growth Rate using Free Cash Flow per Share data.

During the past 11 years, Editas Medicine's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 23.60% per year. The lowest was -123.70% per year. And the median was -33.40% per year.

Editas Medicine Free Cash Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Editas Medicine's Free Cash Flow can be seen below:

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Editas Medicine Annual Data

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Dec23

Free Cash Flow

-46.84

-187.01

-171.78

-181.47

-136.90

Editas Medicine Quarterly Data
	Mar19	Jun19	Sep19	Dec19	Mar20	Jun20	Sep20	Dec20	Mar21	Jun21	Sep21	Dec21	Mar22	Jun22	Sep22	Dec22	Mar23	Jun23	Sep23	Dec23
Free Cash Flow																-42.90	-37.61	-40.04	-35.70	-23.55

Editas Medicine 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.

Editas Medicine's Free Cash Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow (A: Dec. 2023 )	=	Cash Flow from Operations	+	Capital Expenditure
	=	-132.178	+	-4.719
	=	-136.90

Editas Medicine's Free Cash Flow for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow (Q: Dec. 2023 )	=	Cash Flow from Operations	+	Capital Expenditure
	=	-22.24	+	-1.307
	=	-23.55

Free Cash Flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-136.90 Mil.

Editas Medicine (NAS:EDIT) 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.

Therefore, as of Dec23, Editas Medicine's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % is

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % (Dec23)	=	Normalized Free Cash Flow	/	Price	+	5-Year EBITDA Growth Rate
	=	0	/	10.13	+	0
	=	0.00 %

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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Editas Medicine (Editas Medicine) Business Description

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Address

11 Hurley Street, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02141

Website

https://www.editasmedicine.com

Editas Medicine Inc is a genome editing company. It is engaged in treating patients with genetically defined diseases by correcting disease-causing genes. The company focuses on developing a proprietary genome editing platform based on clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/ CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9 technology). It has developed CRISPR/Cas9 technology which uses a protein-RNA (ribonucleic acid) complex composed of the Cas9 enzyme bound to a guide RNA molecule designed to recognize a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) sequence that requires repair. The company is engaged in developing and commercializing genome editing technology.

Executives

Bruce Eaton	officer: EVP, Chief Business Officer	C/O EDITAS MEDICINE, INC., 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Linda Burkly	officer: EVP, CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER	1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Baisong Mei	officer: SVP, CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER	C/O EDITAS MEDICINE, INC., 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Gilmore Neil O'neill	director, officer: CEO	215 FIRST STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Erick Lucera	officer: EVP, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER	138 THISTLE ROAD, NORTH ANDOVER MA 08145
Michelle Robertson	officer: Chief Financial Officer	C/O MOMENTA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., 301 BINNEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Elliott M. Levy	director	C/O OMEGA THERAPEUTICS, INC., 20 ACORN PARK D, CAMBRIDGE MA 02140
Mark S Shearman	officer: EVP, Chief Scientific Officer	C/O APPLIED GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES CORP, 11801 RESEARCH DRIVE, SUITE D, ALACHUA FL 32615
Lisa Anne Michaels	officer: EVP/Chief Medical Officer	C/O EDITAS MEDICINE, INC., 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Bernadette Connaughton	director	C/O VISTERRA, INC., ONE KENDALL SQUARE, #B3301, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
James C Mullen	director	940 WINTER STREET, PERKINELMER, INC LEGAL DEPARTMENT, WALTHAM MA 02451
Emma Reeve	director	C/O PAREXEL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, 195 WEST STREET, WALTHAM MA 02451
Jessica Hopfield	director	C/O 600 TECHNOLOGY PARK DRIVE, SUITE 200, BILLERICA MA 01821
Cynthia Collins	director	65 WEST WATKINS MILL ROAD, GAITHERSBURG MD 20878
Meeta Chatterjee	director	C/O EDITAS MEDICINE, INC., 1 MAIN STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142