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While the stock has nearly doubled over the last year, its free cash flow has more than tripled. As a result, a company that is growing at more than 20% per year on the top line is yielding 3.9% on a free cash flow to enterprise value basis.
A significant exposure is the possibility of a consumer slowdown combined with increasingly high expectations. Apple is far more consumer-driven than other tech stocks, and a 40x P/E multiple might not hold up if they only beat by a nickel instead of the quarter investors have come to expect. That’s why free cash flow is so important in this case - it provides a solid backstop, and would help justify being patient through a slowdown should it come. If the company can grow at even half the current rate over the next five years, investors are likely to be well compensated for the added risk.
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