US Equities Analysis

HSIC — Henry Schein

Research evidence pack

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2. Company Fundamentals

2.1 Competitiveness

Metric Value
Operating Margins 5.85%
Profit Margins 2.95%
Return on Equity 8.76%
Return on Assets 4.35%
Free Float 0.09B
Short Int % Utilisation 8.63%

2.2 Growth

Metric Value
Revenue Growth 6.3%
Free Cash Flow 0.29B
EBITDA 13.5 (Ratio)
Enterprise Value 14.15B
EV/Revenue 1.06
EV/EBITDA 13.5

Revenue growth of 6.3% indicates steady, moderate expansion.

2.3 Management

Role Metric
Consensus Rating N/A

2.4 Return

Metric Value
Expected Return (Ann.)* 37.14%
Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* 26.10%
1-Year Price Return* 32.33%

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

Metric Value
Last Price $89.77
52-Week Range $61.95 – $92.18
Observation Count 251 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 $89.52
Market capitalisation $10.20B
Enterprise value proxy $13.48B
Revenue $13.18B
EBIT $683.00M
EBITDA $964.00M
Reported free cash flow $521.00M
Unlevered free cash flow $563.13M
FCF yield 5.11%
EV / EBITDA proxy 13.98x
Net debt / EBITDA 3.40x

WACC Workbench

WACC input Value
Risk-free rate 4.72%
Equity risk premium assumption 5.50%
Beta 0.81
Cost of equity 9.17%
Pre-tax cost of debt 4.76%
WACC 7.77%
WACC validation within standard range

2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen

Educational screen Result
Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks 3/4 evidenced checks
Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks 3/4 evidenced checks

Data lineage: Yahoo Finance public market and statement data; retrieval timestamp: 2026-08-17 23:40:26.554130 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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