EV/OE

EV / (free cash flow − stock comp)

One of the 61 measures in Stock Scorer, under Valuation — What does the price ask for what the company earns, owns and pays out?

How it is worked out

Enterprise value ÷ (operating cash flow − capital expenditure − share-based compensation)

Price against the cash genuinely available to owners, with pay settled in shares counted as the cost it is.

How to read it

12x earns a 10, 120x a 1

Which figures it needs

Computed from 9 figures taken from the filing:

• ocf
• capex
• sbc
• debt_long
• debt_short
• finance_lease_long
• finance_lease_short
• cash
• short_term_investments

The XBRL tags behind it

These are the element names looked for in a filing, in order. The first one a company reports is the one used, and the company page names which it was — so any figure here can be checked against the filing it came from.

• NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities
• NetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivitiesContinuingOperations
• CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivities
• CashFlowsFromUsedInOperatingActivitiesContinuingOperations
• PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment
• PaymentsToAcquireProductiveAssets
• PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipmentExcludingInterestCapitalized
• PaymentsToAcquireOtherPropertyPlantAndEquipment
• PaymentsToAcquireOtherProductiveAssets
• PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentClassifiedAsInvestingActivities
• PurchaseOfPropertyPlantAndEquipmentIntangibleAssetsOtherThanGoodwillInvestmentPropertyAndOtherNoncurrentAssets
• ShareBasedCompensation
• AllocatedShareBasedCompensationExpense
• ShareBasedCompensationArrangementByShareBasedPaymentAwardCompensationCost
• ShareBasedPaymentsExpense
• ExpenseFromSharebasedPaymentTransactionsWithEmployees
• AdjustmentsForSharebasedPayments
• ExpenseFromSharebasedPaymentTransactionsInWhichGoodsOrServicesReceivedDidNotQualifyForRecognitionAsAssets
• CompensationExpenseShareBasedPayments
• LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligations
• LongTermDebtNoncurrent
• LongTermDebt
• NotesPayableNoncurrent
• LongTermDebtAndCapitalLeaseObligationsCurrent
• LongTermDebtCurrent
• DebtCurrent
• ShortTermBorrowings
• NotesPayableCurrent
• FinanceLeaseLiabilityNoncurrent
• FinanceLeaseLiabilityCurrent
• CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue
• CashCashEquivalentsRestrictedCashAndRestrictedCashEquivalents
• CashAndCashEquivalents
• ShortTermInvestments
• AvailableForSaleSecuritiesDebtSecuritiesCurrent
• MarketableSecuritiesCurrent
• OtherShortTermInvestments
• OtherCurrentFinancialAssets

Whether it counts

This measure is counted in Valuation by default. It can be taken out on the dashboard, and the dimension is then measured over whatever is left.