What is Monarch Financial Holdings Free Cash Flow?
Monarch Financial Holdings's total free cash flow for the
months ended in Mar. 2016 was
$-17.1 Mil.
Its total free cash flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2016 was $-14.6 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 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.
Monarch Financial Holdings'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 Mar. 2016 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-14.6 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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Monarch Financial Holdings (Monarch Financial Holdings) Business Description
Monarch Financial Holdings Inc was created on June 1, 2006 through a reorganization plan, under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in which Monarch Bank became its wholly-owned subsidiary. Monarch Bank was incorporated on May 1, 1998 and opened for business on April 14, 1999 as a Virginia-chartered bank and a member of the Federal Reserve banking system. The Company is engaged in business and consumer banking, investment and insurance sales, and mortgage origination and brokerage. It conducts its operations through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Monarch Bank, and its two wholly-owned subsidiaries, Monarch Investment, LLC and Monarch Capital, LLC. It also does business in some markets as OBX Bank, Monarch Bank Private Wealth, Monarch Mortgage and under various names via joint ventures with other partners. The Company operates through two segments that offer different products and services; community banking ("banking") and retail mortgage banking services ("mortgage banking"). Banking involves making loans to and generating deposits from individuals and businesses. Mortgage banking originates residential mortgage loans and subsequently sells them to investors. It serves the needs of local businesses, professionals, corporate executives and individuals in the Hampton Roads South Hampton Roads area of Southeastern Virginia and the Outer Banks region of Northeastern North Carolina. It operate ten banking offices, four commercial lending office and eleven residential mortgage offices in the cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Newport News, Richmond, Williamsburg and Virginia Beach, Virginia. It has two full-service banking offices operating under the name 'OBX Bank' and a residential mortgage office operating under the name of 'OBX Bank Mortgage' in the Outer Banks region of Northeastern North Carolina in the towns of Kitty Hawk and Nags Head. It also operates twenty-nine additional residential mortgage offices outside of its main market areas. The Company's business banking group supports its business and commercial clients and offers both secured and unsecured commercial loans for working capital (including inventory and receivables), business expansion (including acquisition of real estate and improvements) and the purchase of equipment and machinery, as well as loans secured by commercial real estate. This Company also originates business deposits and related services. The Company's Real Estate Finance Group supports the delivery of residential and commercial real estate construction, acquisition and development loans, with the majority of its focus in the 1-4 family residential development markets of Hampton Roads and Northeastern North Carolina. This group supports this type of banking in all of its markets. The Commercial Real Estate Finance Group specializing in underwriting commercial real estate loans, which are either financed for its balance sheet or brokered to other investors. Non-owner occupied income producing real est
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