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Voyager Therapeutics (Voyager Therapeutics) Free Cash Flow per Share : $-0.04 (TTM As of Mar. 2024)


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What is Voyager Therapeutics Free Cash Flow per Share?

Voyager Therapeutics's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $0.99. Its Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 was $-0.04.

During the past 12 months, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Voyager Therapeutics was -102.40% 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 FCF Growth Rate using Free Cash Flow per Share data.

The historical rank and industry rank for Voyager Therapeutics's Free Cash Flow per Share or its related term are showing as below:

During the past 11 years, Voyager Therapeutics's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -6.10% per year. The lowest was -34.00% per year. And the median was -32.50% per year.

VYGR's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 3.8
* Ranked among companies with meaningful 3-Year FCF Growth Rate only.

Voyager Therapeutics Free Cash Flow per Share Historical Data

The historical data trend for Voyager Therapeutics's Free Cash Flow per Share can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Voyager Therapeutics Free Cash Flow per Share Chart

Voyager Therapeutics Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Free Cash Flow per Share
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.14 -2.91 -1.46 -0.39 1.68

Voyager Therapeutics Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Free Cash Flow per Share Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.92 -0.05 -0.50 -0.49 0.99

Competitive Comparison of Voyager Therapeutics's Free Cash Flow per Share

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Voyager Therapeutics's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow 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.


Voyager Therapeutics's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Voyager Therapeutics's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Voyager Therapeutics's Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow falls into.



Voyager Therapeutics Free Cash Flow per Share Calculation

Free Cashflow per Share is the amount of Free Cashflow 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.

Note: GuruFocus does not calculate Free Cash Flow Per Share when Capital Expenditure is 0.

Voyager Therapeutics's Free Cash Flow Per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow Per Share(A: Dec. 2023 )
=(Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure)/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=(77.919+-3.256)/44.569
=74.663/44.569
=1.68

Voyager Therapeutics's Free Cash Flow Per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow Per Share(Q: Mar. 2024 )
=(Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure)/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=(58.767+-2.141)/57.117
=56.626/57.117
=0.99

Free Cash Flow per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Mar. 2024 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-0.04

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Voyager Therapeutics  (NAS:VYGR) Free Cash Flow per Share Explanation

Free Cash Flow is very close to Warren Buffett's definition of Owner's Earnings, except that in Warren Buffett's Owner's Earnings, the spending for Property, Plant, and Equipment is only for maintenance (replacement), while in the Free Cash Flow calculation, the cost of new Property, Plant, and Equipment due to business expansion is also deducted. There, Free Cash Flow is more conservative than Owner's Earnings.

In Don Yacktman's calculation of forward rate of return, he uses Free Cash Flow for the calculation. Yacktman explained the forward rate of return concept in detail in his interview with GuruFocus. Yacktman defines forward rate of return as the normalized free cash flow yield plus real growth plus inflation.

This is what Yacktman said in his March 2012 interview - when the S&P 500 was at 1400:

If the business is stable, this calculation is fairly straightforward. For instance, on the S&P 500 we would normalize earnings. We would then calculate what percentage of those earnings are not reinvested in the underlying businesses and are therefore free. Historically, for the S&P 500, this has been just under 50% of earnings. Currently, we expect the S&P to earn about 70 on a normalized basis, a number which is far below reported earnings due to our adjusting for record high profit margins. $70 X ½ / 1400 gives you a normalized free cash flow yield of approximately 2.5%.

The historical real growth rate of the S&P 500 (companies) is about 1.5%. Assuming an inflation rate of 2.5%, the forward rate of return on an investment in the S&P 500 is about 6.5% today (2.5% free cash flow yield plus 1.5% real growth plus 2.5% inflation).

For the growth part of the Forward Rate of Return calculation, GuruFocus uses the 5-year average growth rate of EBITDA per share as the growth rate, and the growth rate is always capped at 20%. For the Free Cash Flow we use per share data averaged over seven years. The reason we use seven years is because research shows that seven years is the length of the typical business cycle.

Therefore, as of Dec23, Voyager Therapeutics's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % is

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % (Dec23)=Normalized Free Cash Flow/Price+5-Year EBITDA Growth Rate
=0/9.31+0
=0.00 %

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Be Aware

Free Cash Flow within a report period can be affected by management's decisions of capital spending. Therefore, it is important to look at long term when it comes to Free Cash Flow.


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Voyager Therapeutics (Voyager Therapeutics) Business Description

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Address
64 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA, USA, 02139
Voyager Therapeutics Inc is a gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing treatments for patients suffering from severe neurological diseases. It focuses on neurological diseases where an adeno-associated virus, or AAV, gene therapy approach that either increases or decreases the production of a specific protein can slow or reduce the symptoms experienced by patients, and therefore have a clinically meaningful impact. The company's gene therapy platform enables to engineer, optimize, manufacture and deliver AAV-based gene therapies that have the potential to provide durable efficacy following a single administration. The company operates in a single segment of developing and commercializing gene therapies.
Executives
Todd Alfred Carter officer: Chief Scientific Officer C/O VOYAGER THERAPEUTICS, INC., 64 SIDNEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Robin Swartz officer: Chief Operating Officer C/O VOYAGER THERAPEUTICS, INC., 75 SIDNEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Peter P. Pfreundschuh officer: Chief Financial Officer C/O IMMUNOMEDICS, INC., 300 THE AMERICAN ROAD, MORRIS PLAINS NJ 07950
Sandell Jacquelyn Fahey officer: Chief Legal Officer C/O VOYAGER THERAPEUTICS, INC., 64 SIDNEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
George A Scangos director C/O EXELIXIS INC, 170 HARBOR WAY, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94083
Alfred Sandrock director 14 CAMBRIDGE CENTER, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Robert W. Hesslein officer: Senior VP & General Counsel C/O FOUNDATION MEDICINE, INC., ONE KENDALL SQUARE, SUITE B3501, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
Jude Onyia director C/O NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES, INC., 12780 EL CAMINO REAL, SAN DIEGO CA 92130
Neurocrine Biosciences Inc 10 percent owner 12780 EL CAMINO REAL, SAN DIEGO CA 92130
Third Rock Ventures Iii, L.p. 10 percent owner 29 NEWBURY STREET, 3RD FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
Ecor1 Capital, Llc 10 percent owner 357 TEHAMA STREET #3, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94103
Grace Colon director C/O CAREDX, INC., 3260 BAYSHORE BOULEVARD, BRISBANE CA 94005
Catherine J Mackey director 3595 JOHN HOPKINS COURT, SAN DIEGO CA 92121
Glenn Pierce director
Michael J Higgins director C/O GENOCEA BIOSCIENCES, INC., 100 ACORN PARK DRIVE, 5TH FLOOR, CAMBRIDGE MA 02140