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Top 5 Companies in the Industrial Conglomerates Industry Offering Investors the Best Cash Flow (TXT, GE, SEB, TYC, MMM)

Written on Fri, 07/30/2010 - 3:57am
By Chip Brian

Below are the top five companies in the Industrial Conglomerates industry as measured by the price to cash flow ratio. Often companies with the lowest ratio present the greatest value to investors.
Textron (NYSE:TXT) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 21.3x based on a current price of $20.71 and a free cash flow per share of $0.97.
General Electric (NYSE:GE) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 29.8x based on a current price of $16.15 and a free cash flow per share of $0.54.
Seaboard (AMEX:SEB) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 31.3x based on a current price of $1549 and a free cash flow per share of $49.57.
Tyco International (NYSE:TYC) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 38.1x based on a current price of $36.97 and a free cash flow per share of $0.97.
3M (NYSE:MMM) has a price to free cash flow ratio of 64.6x based on a current price of $86.34 and a free cash flow per share of $1.34.
SmarTrend is bullish on shares of TXT and our subscribers were alerted to Buy on July 21, 2010 at $19.41. The stock has risen 6.7% since the alert was issued.

Keywords: keywords: nyse:txt Textron price to free cash

Ticker(s): TXT GE TYC MMM SEB

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