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Miller Energy Resources (Miller Energy Resources) Free Cash Flow : $-204.89 Mil (TTM As of Jan. 2015)


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What is Miller Energy Resources Free Cash Flow?

Miller Energy Resources's total free cash flow for the months ended in Jan. 2015 was $-32.66 Mil. Its total free cash flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2015 was $-204.89 Mil.

Miller Energy Resources's Free Cash Flow per Share for the months ended in Jan. 2015 was $0.00. Its free cash flow per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2015 was $0.00.

During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 246.80% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 66.40% 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 Free Cash Flow Growth Rate using Free Cash Flow per Share data.

During the past 13 years, Miller Energy Resources's highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 246.80% per year. The lowest was 0.00% per year. And the median was -17.00% per year.


Miller Energy Resources Free Cash Flow Historical Data

The historical data trend for Miller Energy Resources's Free Cash Flow 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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Miller Energy Resources Free Cash Flow Chart

Miller Energy Resources Annual Data
Trend Apr05 Apr06 Apr07 Apr08 Apr09 Apr10 Apr11 Apr12 Apr13 Apr14
Free Cash Flow
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only -8.17 -26.79 -27.07 -49.39 -185.55

Miller Energy Resources Quarterly Data
Apr10 Jul10 Oct10 Jan11 Apr11 Jul11 Oct11 Jan12 Apr12 Jul12 Oct12 Jan13 Apr13 Jul13 Oct13 Jan14 Apr14 Jul14 Oct14 Jan15
Free Cash Flow 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 -17.26 -103.15 -40.04 -29.05 -32.66

Miller Energy Resources Free Cash Flow Calculation

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.

Miller Energy Resources's Free Cash Flow for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2014 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow (A: Apr. 2014 )=Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure
=15.322+-200.868
=-185.55

Miller Energy Resources's Free Cash Flow for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2015 is calculated as

Free Cash Flow (Q: Jan. 2015 )=Cash Flow from Operations+Capital Expenditure
=1.489+-34.145
=-32.66

Free Cash Flow for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Jan. 2015 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $-204.89 Mil.

* 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.


Miller Energy Resources  (OTCPK:MILOQ.PFD) Free Cash Flow 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 Jan15, Miller Energy Resources's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % is

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % (Jan15)=Normalized Free Cash Flow/Price+5-Year EBITDA Growth Rate
=0/0+0
=0 %

* 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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Miller Energy Resources (Miller Energy Resources) Business Description

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Miller Energy Resources Inc was formed in Delaware in November 1985. In January 1997, it acquired Miller Petroleum, Inc., a privately-held company, in a reverse merger in which Miller Petroleum, Inc. In conjunction with this transaction, the Company changed its name to Miller Petroleum, Inc. and re-domesticated to the State of Tennessee. The Company is an exploration and production company that utilizes seismic data and other technologies for the geophysical exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas wells in the Cook Inlet Basin of southcentral Alaska and the Appalachian region of eastern Tennessee. The Company focuses its efforts on activities in the Cook Inlet and Susitna Basins of Alaska as well as the Appalachian region of East Tennessee. The Cook Inlet Basin contains large oil and gas deposits including multiple offshore fields. The Cook Inlet is a vast estuary stretching 180 miles from the Gulf of Alaska to Anchorage in southcentral Alaska. The Inlet separates the Kenai Peninsula in the east from the Alaska Peninsula in the west. The Cook Inlet Basin underlying this region contains large oil and gas deposits including several offshore fields. There are also numerous oil and gas pipelines located in and under the Cook Inlet. The Cook Inlet Basin has produced approximately 1.3 billion barrels of oil and 7.8 trillion cubic feet ('tcf') of natural gas. The Susitna Basin underlies the sprawling Susitna River valley to the north of Anchorage. The Susitna Basin lies directly north of the Cook Inlet Basin, separated by the Castle Mountain Fault, and has similar geology. Wells drilled within its acreage range from approximately 1,500 to 4,200 feet in depth with major targets in descending order being: the Mississippian age Monteagle Limestone and Fort Payne Limestone, and the Devonian age Chattanooga Shale, with the Fort Payne Limestone being the primary oil target. The existing markets for natural gas production in southcentral Alaska are the Tesoro Nikiski Refinery, utility companies, petrochemical manufacturing, the production of LNG for export to Asian markets, and the production of synthetic crude oil ('syncrude'). Presently, its sole market for crude oil produced from its Alaskan operations is the Tesoro Nikiski Refinery. Crude oil is shipped by pipeline and tanker vessel to the Tesoro Nikiski Refinery, operated by Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Company ('Tesoro'). It competes with a number of other companies doing business in Alaska, Tennessee and elsewhere, including large oil and gas companies and other operators. The Company's exploration and production business is subject to various federal, state and local laws and regulations on the taxation of natural gas and oil, the development, production and marketing of natural gas and oil and environmental and safety matters.
Executives
Daniel Vogel director C/O APOLLO MANAGEMENT, L.P., 9 WEST 57TH, NEW YORK NY 10019
Apollo Management Holdings Gp, Llc 10 percent owner 9 W. 57TH STREET, 43RD FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Highbridge Principal Strategies - Specialty Loan Fund Iii, L.p. 10 percent owner 40 WEST 57TH STREET, 33RD FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Jeffrey Fitts director C/O MILLER ENERGY RESOURCES, INC., 9721 COGDILL ROAD, SUITE 302, KNOXVILLE TN 37932
Apollo Investment Management, L.p. 10 percent owner 2711 CENTERVILLE ROAD, SUITE 400, WILMINGTON DE 19808
Apollo Investment Corp 10 percent owner 9 W. 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Highbridge Specialty Loan Sector D Investment Fund, L.p. 10 percent owner C/O HIGHBRIDGE PRINCIPAL STRATEGIES, LLC, 40 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Don Dimitrievich director C/O MILLER ENERGY RESOURCES, INC., 9721 COGDILL ROAD, SUITE 302, KNOXVILLE TN 37932
Gerald Girardi director C/O APOLLO MANAGEMENT, L.P., 9 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Apollo Capital Management, L.p. 10 percent owner 9 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Apollo Capital Management Gp, Llc 10 percent owner 9 WEST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Apollo Management Holdings, L.p. 10 percent owner 9 W. 57TH STREET, NEW YORK NY 10019
Leland E Tate officer: Interim COO 4600 POST OAK PLACE STE 200, HOUSTON TX 77027
Phillip G Elliott officer: SVP and CFO 9721 COGDILL ROAD, SUITE 302, KNOXVILLE TN 37932
Jeffrey R Mcinturff officer: CAO 9721 COGDILL ROAD, SUITE 302, KNOXVILLE TN 37932

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