What does consolidation — payments to acquire investments mean?

The elimination of intercompany payments made to purchase investments during the consolidation process.

How do you interpret consolidation — payments to acquire investments?

Fluctuations in this metric reflect changes in the volume of internal investment activity between corporate entities rather than external market investments.

How does consolidation — payments to acquire investments compare across companies?

Standard in consolidated financial statements for multinational corporations with complex legal entity structures.

Allegion ALLE Consolidation — Payments To Acquire Investments

Discontinued — last reported Q4 '18

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ALLYConsolidation Eliminations — Payments For Proceeds From Investments

-$8M0.0%

ARE

AREConsolidation Eliminations — Payments To Acquire Investments

$0—

NPOConsolidation Eliminations — Payments To Acquire Other Investments

$0—

ACGLConsolidation Eliminations — Payments To Acquire Other Investments

$0—

CDWConsolidation Eliminations — Payments To Acquire Equity Method Investments

$0—

ALLYConsolidation Eliminations — Payments For Proceeds From Other Investing Activities

$1M-50.0%

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$1.0B+9.7%

Gross profit$454.5M+7.6%

Operating income$195.3M-0.6%

Net income$138.1M-6.8%

EPS (diluted)$1.59-7.0%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$308.9M-37.5%

Total debt$2.2B+3.6%

Total equity$2.1B+30.8%

Total assets$5.3B+16.4%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$101.3M-3.1%

CapEx$21.0M-0.5%

Free cash flow$80.3M-3.7%

Valuation

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Market cap$11.48B+11.2%

Enterprise value$13.39B+11.8%

P/E18.1×+1.5×

P/S2.8×+0.1×

Profitability

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Gross margin45%+0.5pp

Operating margin20.6%-0.4pp

Net margin15.2%-1.0pp

FCF margin16.4%-0.4pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity34.2%-7.9pp

Debt / equity1.1×-0.3×

Current ratio1.9×-0.3×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by Allegion in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireInvestments.

The official record: Allegion’s 10-K, filed February 19, 2019, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does consolidation — payments to acquire investments mean?: The elimination of intercompany payments made to purchase investments during the consolidation process.
How do you interpret consolidation — payments to acquire investments?: Fluctuations in this metric reflect changes in the volume of internal investment activity between corporate entities rather than external market investments.
How does consolidation — payments to acquire investments compare across companies?: Standard in consolidated financial statements for multinational corporations with complex legal entity structures.