SYY [Archive]

**yhan** Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:48 pm

SYY
Blast,

Can you look at SYY? seems it is ok to buy, even not a great buy.

EPS: 1.42
Div: 2%
Trailing P/E (ttm, intraday): 24.36
Forward P/E (fye 3-Jul-06)¹: 20.19
PEG Ratio (5 yr expected)¹: 1.65
Price/Sales (ttm): 0.75
Price/Book (mrq): 8.08

Annual Earning/Share
Year 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Values 0.38 0.43 0.43 0.54 0.67 0.88 1.01 1.18 1.37
Perta 8.57% 13.16% 0.00% 25.58% 24.07% 31.34% 14.77% 16.83% 16.10%

66% instiutional hold
Zacks: 4
Moringstar: financial (B), Profitability (A), Growth (B)

**blast_investor** Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:37 pm

Re: SYY
Too expensive, too risky.

This is not value stock, it is priced as growth stock.

typically value investing would exclude this type of stock for safety concerns.

By the way, its free cashflow is significantly smaller than earnings.

yhan wrote: Blast,

Can you look at SYY? seems it is ok to buy, even not a great buy.

EPS: 1.42
Div: 2%
Trailing P/E (ttm, intraday): 24.36
Forward P/E (fye 3-Jul-06)¹: 20.19
PEG Ratio (5 yr expected)¹: 1.65
Price/Sales (ttm): 0.75
Price/Book (mrq): 8.08

**igt500** Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:50 am

Hi Blast,

I'm sure theres a simple answer to this.. but I don't understand.
Could you tell me how free cashflow could be significantly smaller than earnings?

Thank you

**blast_investor** Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:23 pm

Hi igt500,

There is no easy way to get normalized free cash flow.

Yahoo finance print this number here at:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=SYY

Scroll down to the bottom of page and find :

"Levered Free Cash Flow (ttm): 823.92M "

However, Yahoo finance free cash flow number is subject to adjustment for valuation purpose. Sometimes this number is overstatement, sometimes it is under statement.

Here is very good education material on free cash flow:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/freecashflow.asp

igt500 wrote: Hi Blast,

I'm sure theres a simple answer to this.. but I don't understand.
Could you tell me how free cashflow could be significantly smaller than earnings?

Thank you