US Equities Analysis

CDW — CDW Corporation

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 6.62%
Profit Margins 4.7%
Return on Equity 44.16%
Return on Assets 6.7%
Free Float 0.13B
Dividend Yield 1.97%
Short Int % Utilisation 8.01%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 9.2%
Free Cash Flow 0.88B
EBITDA 11.14 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 22.09B
EV/Revenue 0.96
EV/EBITDA 11.14

Revenue growth of 9.2% indicates steady, moderate expansion.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* -4.39%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 43.81%
1-Year Price Return* -13.22%

Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):

Metric Value
Last Price $139.42
52-Week Range $97.12 – $171.55
Observation Count 250 trading days

The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.

2.5 Valuation & Cash Flow

Valuation basis: The operating-company framework starts with reported EBIT, taxes, non-cash charges, capital expenditure and working-capital movement to derive unlevered free cash flow. It is a current-input research view, not an intrinsic-value target price because a sourced forecast and peer-beta workstream are still required.

Valuation input Value
Last market price $135.30
Market capitalisation $16.91B
Enterprise value proxy $22.08B
Revenue $22.42B
EBIT $1.65B
EBITDA $1.95B
Reported free cash flow $1.09B
Unlevered free cash flow $1.13B
FCF yield 6.43%
EV / EBITDA proxy 11.32x
Net debt / EBITDA 2.65x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 0.94
Cost of equity 9.89%
Pre-tax cost of debt 3.86%
WACC 8.11%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 4/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 4/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:29:43.700277 UTC; latest reported fiscal period: 2025-12-31 00:00:00. WACC uses a live 10-year Treasury proxy when available, a 5.50% ERP assumption, reported beta where available, and an interest-expense / average-debt proxy for cost of debt. This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice.

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