The "million-dollar" measure refers to either total revenue generated or the value of the enterprise built (as opposed to the size of the total profit pile).
In the early 1990s, manufacturers began to see the value of single enterprise-wide resource planning solutions that integrated manufacturing, logistics, distribution, inventory, shipping and accounting.
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"We think it has growth potential but it needs capital - we want to build up the value of the enterprise through time, " he said.
My purpose in this piece is to present B-B-N as a source of information for the board of directors, and explain how board members can use the information to help management in maximizing the future intangible value of the enterprise.
The team's percentage of debt to enterprise value of 81% is the third-highest of the majors' 30 teams.
When I am measuring the true indebtedness of an enterprise, I like looking at liabilities as a percentage of oversimplified enterprise value even more than I like looking at debt to equity ratios.
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Enterprise value is a term coined by analysts to discuss the aggregate value of a company as an enterprise rather than just focusing on its current market capitalization.
Some of these companies will generate 80-90% of their enterprise value in free cash flow over the next five years, according to Mark Holowesko of Holowesko Partners.
That is the ratio of enterprise value (market value plus debt less cash) to operating earnings (Ebitda).
Once this capital expenditure program is complete, its free cash flow will jump to 10% of enterprise value.
With an enterprise value of 5.2 times this fiscal year's consensus Ebitda, it's priced cheaply enough for investors to read on.
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This is the ratio of enterprise value (market value of common stock, plus debt, minus cash) to operating income (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
With a trailing multiple of enterprise value (market cap plus debt minus cash) to operating income of 14, giant Comcast is cheaper than its smaller, slower-growing peers.
With an enterprise value of 1.1 times annual sales, it is comparable to Weyerhaeuser, but it lacks the latter's exposure (via lumber) to the teetering housing market.
With an enterprise value of 1.1 times annual sales, it is comparable to Weyerhaeuser (nyse: WY - news - people ), but it lacks the latter's exposure (via lumber) to the teetering housing market.
Crew is a Wall Street darling, as you can see in its high enterprise multiple, defined as the ratio of enterprise value (market value of common, plus debt, minus cash) to Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization).
For business sports brands, I first calculated how much the branded enterprise would fetch in an arms-length transaction, and then subtracted the average enterprise value of what similar businesses the same size have been sold for, or are being valued.
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As the price of senior gold mining stocks and gold bullion have diverged, the enterprise value per ounce of gold reserves held by gold miners is at a historically steep discount to the spot price of gold.
For the soon-to-merge German utilities Viag and Veba, both of which trade at an enterprise value (market cap plus debt) of less than six times operating income, government threats to shut down nuclear plants are enough to scare away investors--both financial and strategic--no matter how cheap the stocks.
Why doesn't O'Shaughnessy use enterprise value instead of market value in his numerator?
It has never been a culture of building value at the enterprise level.
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As for Best Buy, I would wait for a pullback, as the market value of the company exceeds its enterprise value.
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By using enterprise value instead of market capitalization to look at the value of a company, investors get a more accurate sense of whether or not a company is truly undervalued.
The value of the data from connecting the Internet of Things to the enterprise goes beyond a single department or workgroup.
All successful businesses revolve around the creation of value: Social business is about injecting the strategic value of social tools into the heart of your enterprise, harvesting the kind of success companies from IBM to Walgreens and Burberry have enjoyed by doing so.
In the biofuels table we score vendors on their enterprise value per gallon of annual output.
Quite reasonably, financial wizards like to subtract all kinds of things from enterprise value, like receivables that are offset by payables.
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The added cash enabled the Rockies to reduce their ratio of debt to enterprise value to 19%, down from 35% when Monfort took over.
Selling for a ratio of six times enterprise value (market cap plus long-term debt) to EBITDA cash flow (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), Cemex looks cheap.
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