China Telecom (HKSE:00728) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate : 37.70% (As of Mar. 2024)

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What is China Telecom 3-Year FCF Growth Rate?

China Telecom's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was HK$0.06.

During the past 12 months, China Telecom's average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -39.40% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 37.70% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 38.10% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 24.60% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Free Cash Flow per Share growth rate.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of China Telecom was 89.00% per year. The lowest was -39.70% per year. And the median was 16.10% per year.

Competitive Comparison of China Telecom's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate

For the Telecom Services subindustry, China Telecom's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year FCF Growth Rate data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.

China Telecom's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, China Telecom's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where China Telecom's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate falls into.

China Telecom 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Calculation

This is the 3-year average growth rate of Free Cash Flow per Share. The growth rate is calculated using exponential compounding based on the latest four year annual data.

Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Free Cash Flow per Share growth rate.

China Telecom (HKSE:00728) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Explanation

Free Cash Flow per Share is the amount of Free Cash Flow per outstanding share of the company's stock. Free Cash Flow is considered one of the most important parameters to measure a company's earnings power by value investors because it is not subject to estimates of Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization (DDA). However, when we look at the Free Cash Flow, we should look from a long term perspective, because any year's Free Cash Flow can be drastically affected by the spending on Property, Plant, & Equipment (PPE) of the business in that year. Over the long term, Free Cash Flow should give pretty good picture on the real earnings power of the company. It's used in the calculation of Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %.

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China Telecom is the largest fixed-line operator in China, originally covering 21 southern provinces. It has 102 million fixed-line subscribers, 189 million broadband customers, and 406 million wireless subscribers, having overtaken China Unicom to become the second-largest wireless operator in China behind China Mobile. The firm is increasing its cross-selling of products and seeing strong growth from industrial digitization services, such as internet data centers and cloud computing. Its internet data center business is already the largest in China, with a plan to have 560,000 cabinets by end 2023.

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