Date: Oct 12, 2018
Checking in on some valuation rankings, Australian Vanadium Limited (ASX:AVL) has a Value Composite score of 82. Developed by James O’Shaughnessy, the VC score uses five valuation ratios. These ratios are price to earnings, price to cash flow, EBITDA to EV, price to book value, and price to sales. The VC is displayed as a number between 1 and 100. In general, a company with a score closer to 0 would be seen as undervalued, and a score closer to 100 would indicate an overvalued company. Adding a sixth ratio, shareholder yield, we can view the Value Composite 2 score which is currently sitting at 87.
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In taking a look at some other notable technicals, Australian Vanadium Limited (ASX:AVL)’s ROIC is -0.130239. The ROIC 5 year average is -0.288888 and the ROIC Quality ratio is -1.278543. ROIC is a profitability ratio that measures the return that an investment generates for those providing capital. ROIC helps show how efficient a firm is at turning capital into profits.
We also note that Australian Vanadium Limited (ASX:AVL) has a Shareholder Yield of -0.323581 and a Shareholder Yield (Mebane Faber) of -0.18445. The first value is calculated by adding the dividend yield to the percentage of repurchased shares. The second value adds in the net debt repaid yield to the calculation. Shareholder yield has the ability to show how much money the firm is giving back to shareholders via a few different avenues. Companies may issue new shares and buy back their own shares. This may occur at the same time. Investors may also use shareholder yield to gauge a baseline rate of return.