The P/FCF of SUEZ SA is 11.75
Price to free cash flow (P/FCF) is a valuation metric that compares the company’s current share price to its free cash flow per share.
ttm (trailing twelve months)
Price to free cash flow (P/FCF) is a measure that value investors find useful to analyze a company’s finances in relation to its current stock price. It is a stricter measure than the price to cash flow ratio as it subtracts capital expenditures from cash flow.
Free cash flow relies heavily on the state of a company's cash from operations, which is in turn heavily influenced by the company's net income. Companies can manipulate their free cash flow by lengthening the time they take to pay their bills, shortening the time it takes to collect what's owed to them, and putting off buying inventory. It also depends on what items are considered capital expenditures and this can be different in case of different companies.
Lower values of P/FCF generally indicate a company that is undervalued and whose stock is relatively cheap in relation to its free cash flow. Conversely, higher P/FCF indicate that the company's stock is relatively overvalued. Value investors thus favor companies with low or decreasing price to free cash flow values that indicate high or increasing free cash flow totals and relatively low stock share prices.
It is best to compare price to free cash flow ratios between similar companies in the same industry. However, the P/FCF metric can also be viewed over a longer time frame to see if the company's cash flow to share price value is improving or declining.
Suez SA, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the water cycle and waste cycle management business in France, rest of Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific. The company operates through four segments: Water; Recycling and Recovery; Environmental Technology & Solutions; and Other. It provides water distribution and treatment services to individuals, local authorities, and industrial clients; and waste and waste treatment services, including collection, sorting, recycling, composting, energy recovery, and landfilling for non-hazardous waste for local authorities and industrial clients. The company also offers water network management services; technical assistance, operation, cleaning, and maintenance services; and spare parts, refurbishment, and associated services, as well as designs and operates storage facilities for hazardous and non-hazardous residual waste. In addition, it provides resources management consulting services; engineering and construction contracts and other services; and digital technology solutions for resource and asset protection, as well as deconstructs sites in the end-of-life phase and decontaminates soil and water tables. The company serves food and beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical, construction, site deconstruction and soil decontamination, mining and metals, oil and gas, power, pulp and paper, electronics and electrical, automotive, transport, and aeronautic industries. Suez SA was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Paris, France. As of January 7, 2022, Suez SA operates as a subsidiary of Veolia Environnement S.A.