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Folkestone Limited (ASX:FLK) is a company with exceptional fundamental characteristics. Upon building up an investment case for a stock, we should look at various aspects. In the case of FLK, it is a financially-healthy company with a a strong history of performance, trading at a discount. Below, I’ve touched on some key aspects you should know on a high level. If you’re interested in understanding beyond my high-level commentary, take a look at the report on Folkestone here.
Flawless balance sheet and undervalued
In the past couple of years, FLK has ramped up its bottom line by over 100%, with its latest earnings level surpassing its average level over the last five years. In addition to beating its historical values, FLK also outperformed its industry, which delivered a growth of 7.50%. This paints a buoyant picture for the company. FLK’s strong financial health means that all of its upcoming liability payments are able to be met by its current cash and short-term investment holdings. This indicates that FLK has sufficient cash flows and proper cash management in place, which is an important determinant of the company’s health. FLK’s has produced operating cash levels of 1.92x total debt over the past year, which implies that FLK’s management has put its borrowings into good use by generating enough cash to cover a sufficient portion of borrowings.
FLK is currently trading below its true value, which means the market is undervaluing the company’s expected cash flow going forward. This mispricing gives investors the opportunity to buy into the stock at a cheap price compared to the value they will be receiving, should analysts’ consensus forecast growth be correct. Also, relative to the rest of its peers with similar levels of earnings, FLK’s share price is trading below the group’s average. This supports the theory that FLK is potentially underpriced.
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For Folkestone, there are three important factors you should look at:
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Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for FLK’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for FLK’s outlook.
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Dividend Income vs Capital Gains: Does FLK return gains to shareholders through reinvesting in itself and growing earnings, or redistribute a decent portion of earnings as dividends? Our historical dividend yield visualization quickly tells you what your can expect from FLK as an investment.
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Other Attractive Alternatives : Are there other well-rounded stocks you could be holding instead of FLK? Explore our interactive list of stocks with large potential to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!
To help readers see pass the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price sensitive company announcements.
The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned.