Today's price is 30% of annual revenue, 100% of book value, 3 times cash flow and 13 times likely 2009 earnings.
It sells at eight times my estimate of 2009 earnings, less than five times cash flow, one times book value and 1.6 times sales.
By contrast, Facebook trades at 60 times trailing 12-month earnings, 49 times prospective 12-month earnings, 43 times cash flow and 12 times book value.
On our relative valuation tables, France is looking good trading at 5.4 times cash flow and 1.54 times book value.
It trades at 2.3 times cash flow and 3.6 times 1998 expected earnings -- a 65% discount to other Latin food retailers.
At 50% of annual revenue, 4.5 times cash flow, 1.25 times book value and 10 times my estimate of 2011 earnings, it combines cheapness with growth.
Chancellor Media Corp. (46, AMFM), a leveraged radio property, sells at 20 times projected free cash flow (cash flow minus necessary capital spending), while Clear Channel Communications, lightly leveraged, sells north of 30 times free cash flow.
So you have the leveraged company capitalized in the market at 4.2 times operating cash flow versus 8.5 times for unleveraged Company A. Exactly the same business.
It sells at eight times my estimate of 2009 earnings, five times cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation) and 1.8 times annual sales.
It sells at 40% of revenue, 8 times cash flow and with a 2% dividend yield.
It sells at one times cash flow, 40% of book value and 10% of annual revenue.
The price is also 15% of annual revenue, 30% of book value and 2 times cash flow.
But our market is priced at 12 times cash flow, up from 6 just ten years ago.
Apple traded at 20 to 30 times cash flow through much of the early 2000s, he notes.
Coal miners like Arch and Peabody Energy tend to trade at four to five times cash flow.
This means buying shares that fetch 13 or 14 times earnings, 8 or 9 times cash flow.
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It is now cheap again at 80% of revenue, 6.9 times cash flow and a 1.8% dividend yield.
The share price is only 3.5 times cash flow (in the sense of net plus depreciation) for 2010.
Natural Resource Partners, even with a hefty 10.5% yield, is trading at the equivalent of nine times cash flow.
Foster recommends focusing on firms with net debt of less than two times cash flow as measured by Ebitda.
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At 9 times my estimate for 2009 earnings and 4 times cash flow, it's cheap enough for a big, long run.
It trades at 15 times trailing earnings, 1.2 times book value and 4 times cash flow, with a 3.7% dividend yield.
There were some other gags which although included neat one-liners, didn't seem to fit in, and distorted the flow a little at times.
The company, whose stock trades at 5 times earnings and 4 times cash flow, is in the process of aggressively reducing its debt burden.
And even after the oil sectors recent rebound, stocks like Conoco (25, COC) and Unocal Corp.(36, UCL), at six times cash flow (net plus depreciation), are historically cheap.
Still, in that backdrop you can buy it at only one times revenue, seven times trailing earnings and three times cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation).
But at 5 times prospective 2010 earnings, 40% of book value, 2 times cash flow and 10% of annual revenue, Magma makes sense even for someone with low expectations for the sector.
Finally, Beckman Coulter (nyse: BEC - news - people ) is a cheap, defensive way to take advantage of biotechnology's future at 90% of revenue and 6 times cash flow.
Now at 30% of revenue, 90% of book value, 7 times 2009 earnings and 3 times cash flow (in the sense of net income plus depreciation), and with a 3.6% dividend yield, it's too cheap to pass up.
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