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Edwards Lifesciences Corporation provides products and technologies to treat advanced cardiovascular diseases in the United States, Europe, Japan, and internationally. The company offers transcatheter...
The following section summarizes insights on Edwards Lifesciences Corp's Owner Earnings:
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We use the owner’s earnings calculation described with Warren Buffett’s 1986 letter to shareholders.
If we think through these questions, we can gain some insights about what may be called "owner earnings." These represent (a) reported earnings plus (b) depreciation, depletion, amortization, and certain other non-cash charges such as Company N's items (1) and (4) less (c) the average annual amount of capitalized expenditures for plant and equipment, etc. that the business requires to fully maintain its long-term competitive position and its unit volume. (If the business requires additional working capital to maintain its competitive position and unit volume, the increment also should be included in (c))
The general formula can be summarized as follows:
(+) Net Income
(+) Depreciation & Amortization
(-) Maintenance Capital Expenditures
(-) Change in Working Capital
(=) Owner Earnings
Note, for financial companies like banks, the net working capital change is ignored given their business model.
The chart above depicts the distribution of owner earnings for companies operating in the Healthcare sector in the Developed economic region. Over 1,900 companies were considered in this analysis, and 1,831 had meaningful values. The average owner earnings of companies in the sector is 24.842 M with a standard deviation of 250.2 M.
Edwards Lifesciences Corp's Owner Earnings of 1.661 B ranks in the 98.2% percentile for the sector. The following table provides additional summary stats:
| Economic Risk Region | Developed |
| Total Constituents | 1,906 |
| Included Constituents | 1,831 |
| Min | -539.4 M |
| Max | 2.454 B |
| Median | -4.188 M |
| Mean | 24.842 M |
| Standard Deviation | 250.2 M |
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