The P/FCF of CompuGroup Medical SE is 0.22
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.
CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA develops and sells software and information technology solutions for the healthcare sector worldwide. It operates in four segments: Ambulatory Information Systems (AIS), Pharmacy Information Systems (PCS), Hospital Information Systems (HIS), and Consumer & Health Management Information Systems (CHS). The AIS segment provides practice management software and electronic medical records for registered physicians, medical care centers, and physicians networks, as well as offers supplementary Internet and intranet solutions. The PCS segment provides administrative and billing-related software applications for pharmacies. Its software solution provides information and decision support to manage various aspects of supply chain for medication. The HIS segment provides clinical and administrative solutions for the inpatient sector. This segment serves acute care hospitals, rehabilitation centers, social services, multi-location hospital networks and regional care organizations, and medical laboratories. The CHS segment provides IT security services, data-based product offers, software interface for sharing of information, clinical decision-making support, and medication and treatment databases for healthcare service providers, as well as digital healthcare stock, consumer portals, and mobile apps. This segment also offers security solutions for healthcare providers. It serves pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies, and other healthcare IT companies and consumers. The company was formerly known as CompuGroup Medical SE and changed its name to CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA in June 2020. CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Koblenz, Germany.