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Materials · fiscal year ending 2016-12-31

Through the investors’ lenses

1 of 4 cleared6 of 9 criteria

Each of these investors has said in public what they look at before buying. Click a name to see how this company measures up — a tick where it passes one of their tests, a cross where it does not.

Warren Buffett 3/4
MeasureCTA-PBChecked against
Owner earnings$2.75bnpositive
Return on equity25.1%US median 2.8%
Debt to equity0.81xUS median 0.57x
Operating margin13.3%US median 3.1%

Passes 3 of 4. These are the measures Warren Buffett published, applied to Eidp’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Benjamin Graham 1/2
MeasureCTA-PBChecked against
Current ratio1.92x2.00x published
Long-term debt to working capital0.99x1.00x published

Passes 1 of 2. These are the measures Benjamin Graham published, applied to Eidp’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Joel Greenblatt 1/1
MeasureCTA-PBChecked against
Return on capital employed18.0%US median 5.1%

Passes 1 of 1. These are the measures Joel Greenblatt published, applied to Eidp’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Peter Lynch 1/2
MeasureCTA-PBChecked against
Debt to equity0.81xUS median 0.57x
Net margin10.2%US median 2.0%

Passes 1 of 2. These are the measures Peter Lynch published, applied to Eidp’s own figures — their criteria, not their view of this company. What he looks at, and why →

Last usable year: 2016-12-31 — 117 months ago. Nothing filed since gives the figures a payout ratio needs. For a company that once paid, that usually means it stopped.
BasisPayoutWhy
GAAP earnings53.3%
why
A single year's earnings for a commodity producer can be several times the through-cycle average. This ratio computed in a trough looks alarming and in a peak looks trivial; neither describes whether the dividend is affordable across a cycle.
Operating cash flow40.5%
why
Before capital spending.
Free cash flow 58.5%
why
Nets out the capital spending producers cut in downturns — so it flatters a trough year.

Spread between highest and lowest: 18.1 percentage points. Same filings, different denominators.

Coverage rating 49 / 100 — Tight. ? Peer standing 19/50Direction 30/30Stability 0/20

Free cash flow payout, last 6 years

Fiscal yearPayout
2016-12-3158.5%
2015-12-31225.0%
2014-12-31100.2%
2013-12-31128.1%
2012-12-3152.2%
2011-12-3146.3%

38% of the 47 materials here pay out more.

The arithmetic

Where the figures came from

Every one is public at sec.gov and free to check. That is the point — you should not have to take our word for any of it.


Computed by an open pipeline reading SEC XBRL directly. If any number here looks wrong to you, tell us — that is more useful to us than agreement.

What the free cash flow payout ratio measures, and where every company here sits on it.

Also on: rated tight · when it files.

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