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VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF

VFLO tracks an index composed of the largest U.S. companies based on profit that are perceived to have strong free cash flow yields and high growth metrics.

Many use market capitalization to gauge a company's valuation and growth potential. However, during a webcast hosted by VettaFi, Michael Mack, Associate Portfolio Manager for VictoryShares and Solutions, noted how market capitalization can sometimes be misleading.

Looking Beyond Market Cap: Does Free Cash Flow Redefine How to Assess Company Value?

Free cash flow (FCF) represents the cash a company generates after accounting for cash payments to support operations and maintain its capital assets. It allows companies to reinvest cash, pay dividends, or pay off debt.

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Good morning, VettaFi Voices! Third-quarter earnings announcements have almost come and gone, with yesterday being the last big burst of companies.

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Good Morning, VettaFi Voices! Growth has blown value out of the water in 2023. It's not even close. The Vanguard Value ETF (VTV) is up less than 1% year to date. Meanwhile, the Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG), the growth fund, is up 32%. That's a big difference, and clearly we're in a growth regime.

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Free cash flow (FCF) is the cash a company has after paying its capital expenditures. Its use is to buy back stocks, pay dividends, or participate in mergers and acquisitions.

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Hello, VettaFi Voices! Whenever I read about the economy in 2023, the one word that comes up repeatedly in various forms is “uncertain.

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My family has been rocked by an unrelenting string of medical and life crises. Fortunately, my family's charity hedge fund is saving us from bankruptcy and despair. I've updated my family's ZEUS Income Growth fund plan to include my best ideas right now. In other words, if I had $2.5 million in cash, this is what I'd buy. This portfolio yields 4.2%, has 13.7% long-term return potential, better than the Nasdaq, and analysts expect it to potentially quadruple over the next decade.

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The summer's optimism about the U.S. consumer and economy has waned, with the Consumer Confidence Index dropping in September. According to data released on Tuesday by the Conference Board, the index fell to 103 from August's 108.7, marking the most significant monthly decline since December 2020, as reported by Wells Fargo Economics, as quoted on Yahoo Finance.

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Many investors often use earnings to measure a company's profitability. But high free cash flow (FCF) yields can often indicate that a company is capable of sustaining long-term growth.

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While free cash flow (FCF) may arguably be a better metric than earnings or income to gauge a company's value, VictoryShares & Solutions contends that it's a company's projected future FCF, not its trailing FCF, that really matters.

A Company's Value is Based on its Future Free Cash Flow

Free cash flow (FCF) is the cash a business has left over after it has paid its capital expenditures¹ (capex). Some see FCF as a better metric for measuring a company's profitability.

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Many value indexes rely on antiquated and less effective measures of value. For example, a company's price-to-book (P/B) ratio heavily influences value for the Russell 1000, the S&P 500, and the MSCI USA Value.

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Target Future Strong Growth Companies With Free Cash Flow

Growth indexes may not necessarily be the best way to find the next growth leaders. When seeking stocks with the greatest growth potential, their future free cash flow (FCF) may be a more successful metric than relying solely on an index's criteria for inclusion.

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Hi VettaFi Voices, we are heading toward the last week of the Q2 earnings season. Now seems like a good time to assess how things have gone so far and what we can expect from next week.

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VFLO is a newly-launched free cash flow yield ETF that incorporates forward-looking metrics estimates into the selection process. Fees are 0.39%, and AUM is up to $54 million. Trailing and forward free cash flow figures combine to generate expected free cash flow. Like COWZ, VFLO's valuation metrics are excellent. It currently trades at 11.88x forward earnings. However, VFLO only holds 50 stocks compared to 100 for COWZ and FLOW, another free cash flow ETF just launched by Global X.

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Economic data seems all over the place. GDP is up 2.4% for the second quarter, a bigger increase than we saw in the first quarter.

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My family uses the ZEUS investing strategy of 33% ETFs, 33% hedges, and 33% individual stocks, offering the ideal combination of market-level (or better) returns with 50% lower volatility. I'm constantly hunting for the best ETFs, which compose the core of my family's 67% stock/33% hedges portfolio. COWZ is the gold standard of Buffett-style deep-value ETFs. COWZ utilizes Buffett's favorite valuation metric, free cash flow yield, which over 32 years, delivered the best returns with the least volatility.

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