BBA Aviation plc (LSE:BBA) of the Industrial Transportation sector might have recently popped up on investor’s radars as the 3136197 market capitalization firm based out of Great Britain recently closed at 2.37. The stock has seen year over year sales growth of 23.1460% giving it a traded value of $10109.
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So how has BBA Aviation plc (LSE:BBA) performed in terms of returns? The ROIC quality score stands at 5.691137 whilet he actual return on invested capital holds at 0.24559. BBA Aviation plc’s book to market ratio is at 0.603757 while the book to market mean difference is -0.00963. This indicator tells you how a firm is right now valued in terms of Book to Market compared to its average Book to Market over the past 10 years. It’s essential to note that BM is the inverse of the Price to book ratio. Thus a high BM ratio means a firm is undervalued.
In glancing at some key ratios we note that the Piotroski F-Score is at 6 (1 to 10 scale) and the ERP5 rank is at 4252. The Q.I. Value of BBA Aviation plc (LSE:BBA) right now reads 22 on the Quant scale. The Free Cash Flow score of 1.123728 is also swinging some momentum at investors. The Great Britain based company is right now valued at 10109.
Some nonstandard notable ratios include the Accrual Ratio of -0.08004, the Altman Z score of 2.249871, a Montier C-Score of 2 and a Value Composite rank of 31.
Debt
In gazing at some Debt ratios, BBA Aviation plc (LSE:BBA) right now has a debt to equity ratio of 0.70753 and a Free Cash Flow to Debt ratio of 0.236695. This ratio gives insight as to how high the company’s total debt is compared to its free cash flow generated. In terms of Net Debt to EBIT, that ratio stands at 4.48326. This ratio indicates how easily a company is able to pay interest and capital on its net outstanding debt. The lower the ratio the better as that signals that the firm is able to meet its interest and capital payments. Lastly we’ll take note of the Net Debt to Market Value ratio. BBA Aviation plc’s ND to MV current stands at 0.38011. This ratio is determined as follows: Net debt (Total debt minus Cash ) / Market value of the firm.
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BBA Aviation plc (LSE:BBA) are showing an adjusted slope average of the past 125 and 250 days of -29.93004. The Adjusted Slope 125/250d indicator is equal to the average annualized exponential regression slope, over the past 125 and 250 trading days, multiplied by the coefficient of determination (R2). The purpose of this calculation is to provide a longer term average adjusted slope value that levels out large stock price movements by using the average. This indicator is helpful in helping find stocks that have been on a savvy upward trend over the past 6 months to a year.
Drilling down into some added key near-term indicators we note that the Capex to PPE ratio stands at 0.099525 for BBA Aviation plc (LSE:BBA). The Capex to PPE ratio suggests you how capital intensive a firm is. Stocks with an increasing (year over year) ratio may be moving to be more capital intensive and frequently underperform the market. Higher Capex also frequently means lower Free Cash Flow (Operating cash flow – Capex) generation and lower dividends as companies don’t have the cash to pay dividends if they are investing more in the business.
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