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Strategies & Market Trends : Free Cash Flow as Value Criterion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (162)	11/6/1997 4:27:00 AM
From: Reginald Middleton	Respond to of 253

Ooops! Your right, it doesn't have free cash flow figures. Sorry.

To: jbe who wrote (162)	11/6/1997 8:30:00 PM
From: STYK	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 253

Just stumbled across this thread. Were you aware that you can copy and paste a Pro-Search into an Excel spreadsheet? I haven't done a search on FCF in a while, and didn't know it was not working. I was doing a simple high cap, high FCF/share search in the Summer of '96. I made an index of the top 10 stocks and tracked them. The index made a new high about 8/5/96, just after the July correction. I just ran it and, deleting some columns so I could copy and paste here, came up with a FCF/Sales ratio on the high cap (>1Bill, no banks or autos) by manipulating the numbers in a spreadsheet (realizing that the data from Telescan is not correct, just an example). You might want to check my algebra. The table will be in the next post. As a formula I used (free cashflow/share) * (price/(sales/share))* 1/price = FCF/Sales. Regards, CS