How do you interpret environmental health — payments to acquire businesses gross?

High spending indicates an aggressive growth-by-acquisition strategy, while low spending suggests a focus on organic growth or cash preservation.

How does environmental health — payments to acquire businesses gross compare across companies?

Comparable to 'Cash paid for acquisitions' reported in the cash flow statement, often broken down by segment in the notes.

Revvity RVTY Environmental Health — Payments To Acquire Businesses Gross

Discontinued — last reported Q4 '14

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$8.2M—

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$40M—

EHCHome Healthand Hospice — Payments To Acquire Businesses Net Of Cash Acquired

$0-100%

ARWGlobal Ecs — Payments To Acquire Businesses Gross

$5.5M—

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$711.1M+7.0%

Gross profit$387.7M+3.2%

Operating income$75.9M+5.1%

Net income$40.7M-3.6%

EPS (diluted)$0.36+2.9%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$861.5M-24.3%

Total debt$3.9B+17.8%

Total equity$7.2B-5.9%

Total assets$12.0B-2.9%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$115.2M-10.1%

CapEx$19.8M+23.7%

Free cash flow$95.5M-14.9%

Valuation

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Market cap$11.16B-22.9%

Enterprise value$14.24B-13.7%

P/E46.5×-4.0×

P/S3.8×-1.4×

Profitability

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Gross margin48.5%—

Operating margin12.4%-1.1pp

Net margin8.3%-2.1pp

FCF margin17%-1.9pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity3.2%-0.5pp

Debt / equity0.5×+0.1×

Current ratio1.7×-1.9×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by Revvity in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:PaymentsToAcquireBusinessesGross.

The official record: Revvity’s 10-K, filed March 1, 2016, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does environmental health — payments to acquire businesses gross mean?: The total cash spent to buy other companies or business units for the Environmental Health segment.
How do you interpret environmental health — payments to acquire businesses gross?: High spending indicates an aggressive growth-by-acquisition strategy, while low spending suggests a focus on organic growth or cash preservation.
How does environmental health — payments to acquire businesses gross compare across companies?: Comparable to 'Cash paid for acquisitions' reported in the cash flow statement, often broken down by segment in the notes.