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Wall Street Drivers beta

📊 Professional Investors(wallstreet) pay a lot of heed at these numbers, long term history matters - specially 9+ year trends
Score 10.0 / 10.0

  • revenue cagr for last 5 years
  • insight: ['5.52 is greater than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer growing Business which grow >= 5% YoY, better than GDP growth of >= 2-3%
  • cashflows cagr for last 3 years
  • insight: ['15.59 is greater than equal to 5']
  • mental_model: We prefer growing Business which generate cashflows >= 5% YoY, for some industries like finance specially Banks this might be lower/red and its OK for them
  • shares outstanding cagr for last 5 years
  • insight: ['0.2 is less than equal to 2']
  • mental_model: As a business owner equity is important, We want less dilution over years OR it should reduce so our share of business increases with time, less than 2% is ideal, >=10% is potentially bad be careful
  • sbc average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['0.09 is less than equal to 0.1']
  • mental_model: We prefer Business which has lower sbc % wrt cashflow operating

Business Durability beta

🏰 Quality companies with moats show higher or stable trends, long term trends matters, Consistency is the Key
Score 10.0 / 10.0

  • margin cashflow running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is higher, last 3 year ratio: 0.17 wrt mean ratio: 0.16']

Profits Matter beta

💰 Companies needs to have positive profits to reward its shareholders in the long term
Score 10.0 / 10.0

  • positive cashflows profits average for last 3 years
  • insight: ['1560666666.67 is greater than equal to 0']
  • mental_model: We want to see positive cashflows profits for last 3 years, Profits determine Stock prices in the long term

Capital Allocation beta

🧠 Remember: Shareholders only gets rewarded if management does prudent capital allocation decisions
Score 10.0 / 10.0

  • stock based compensation to Cashflow running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is lower, last 3 year ratio: 0.09 wrt mean ratio: 0.1']
  • dividend distribution to Cashflow running_sum for last 3 years
  • insight: ['trend is stable, last 3 year ratio: -0.07 wrt mean ratio: -0.07']

Business Performance beta

Score 10.0 / 10.0

  • Operating Leverage Cashflow cagr for last 3 years
  • insight: ['Ratio is [2.06] for last 3 year ratio, threshold 0.9, value_1: 15.59, value_2: 7.55']

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1. Showing CASHFLOW_SUMMARY report for ALC [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 92.54 as of 2025-04-18

T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
ALC revenue 9.91B 9.46B 8.72B 8.29B 6.83B 7.51B 7.15B 6.79B
ALC cashflow::operating 2.08B 1.39B 1.22B 1.34B 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC interest_expense_cashflow 0.19B 0.19B 0.13B 0.12B 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC shares 0.50B 0.50B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B
ALC shares_calc 0.50B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B 0.49B
ALC sbc 0.15B 0.14B 0.14B 0.14B 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC depreciation 1.23B 1.23B 1.11B 1.22B 0.00B 0.00B 0.0 0.0
ALC margin_cfo 20.96% 14.68% 13.96% 16.22% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC dividends -0.13B -0.12B -0.10B -0.05B 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC amortization 1.23B 1.23B 1.11B 1.22B 0.00B 0.00B 0.0 0.0
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)


2. Vertical Data, ratio wrt to shares_calc for ALC [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 92.54 as of 2025-04-18

T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
ALC revenue 19.92 19.23 17.79 16.87 13.97 15.35 14.66 13.92
ALC cashflow::operating 4.17 2.82 2.48 2.74 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC interest_expense_cashflow 0.39 0.38 0.27 0.24 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC shares 1.00 1.01 1.01 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
ALC shares_calc 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
ALC sbc 0.30 0.29 0.29 0.28 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC depreciation 2.46 2.49 2.27 2.48 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC dividends -0.26 -0.24 -0.20 -0.11 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC amortization 2.46 2.49 2.27 2.48 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)


3. Vertical Data, ratio wrt to revenue for ALC [show/hide charts] Current Market Price: 92.54 as of 2025-04-18

T means Trillions, B means Billions, M means Millions, all values are in USD(or company filed currency) if not specified as percent/number in the Entry column
Disclaimer: Data is provided as is, please do your due diligence before making any investments, Markets can be very volatile!
Ticker Entry 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017
ALC revenue 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
ALC cashflow::operating 20.96% 14.68% 13.96% 16.22% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC interest_expense_cashflow 1.94% 2.00% 1.54% 1.45% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC shares 5.01% 5.25% 5.67% 5.95% 7.16% 6.50% 6.82% 7.18%
ALC shares_calc 5.02% 5.20% 5.62% 5.93% 7.16% 6.51% 6.82% 7.18%
ALC sbc 1.51% 1.52% 1.61% 1.66% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC depreciation 12.37% 12.97% 12.75% 14.71% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC dividends -1.31% -1.23% -1.15% -0.65% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
ALC amortization 12.37% 12.97% 12.75% 14.71% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
General notes:
Caution:: 0 value in revenue means we do not have data for the year for the ticker
0 value most likely means we had a data issue and could not find the field value in the particular year
StockMarketPrice is the price of the Stock in December first week for the year mentioned(typically)



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