QualityDipStocks / Consumer Discretionary · Marine Transportation
Frontline Plc FRO
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 12% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading well below our fair value estimate.
- Fair value est.
- $74.91+44%
- Market Value
- —
- Off 52-wk high
- −12%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.48
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Dip: business intact
The price is 12% below its 52-week high (Oct 12), but the business held up: shares outstanding unchanged, operating margin 0.0 pts, free cash flow 0.0%.
Some numbers held up (shares outstanding unchanged, operating margin 0.0 pts, free cash flow 0.0%), others slipped. The price is 12% below its 52-week high.
The price is 12% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
The evidence 8 numbers, high vs now
- Revenue, last 12 months$2.0B → $2.0B (0.0%)about the same
- Earnings per share, 12 months$1.70 → $1.70 (0.0%)about the same
- Free cash flow, 12 months$670M → $670M (0.0%)held up
- Operating margin30.4% → 30.4% (0.0 pts)held up
- Shares outstanding0.0% (unchanged)held up
- Stock vs its sector (Consumer Discretionary)stock −12%, sector median +8% since Oct 12changed
- Price fall vs business numbersprice −12%, revenue/EPS/FCF median 0% (shown, not scored)
- Valuation multipleP/FCF 19.7× at the high → 17.3× now (shown, not scored)
No new report since the high (Oct 12, 2026): the business numbers are the same as then, so this read is capped at 65. Each measure is scored from −1 (business changed) to +1 (business intact) and weighted: revenue, earnings per share, free cash flow, operating margin, revenue growth rate, share count, net cash and the move vs its sector. 60 or more reads as a dip, 40 or less as a repricing. Analyst estimates are not in our data, so they are not used. How to read it
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
At the high ($59.19, Oct 12) the price assumed about 7%/yr free-cash-flow growth; today about 5%. The last 3 years delivered 138%/yr (free cash flow).
Dashed line: what the last 3 years delivered, 138%/yr (free cash flow)
| High | Now | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $59.19Oct 12 | $52.08 |
| Implied growth | +7% | +5% |
| P/E | 34.8× | 30.6× |
| P/FCF | 19.7× | 17.3× |
What this means: the higher the implied growth, the more the price already counts on. If today's number sits well below what the business has delivered, the market expects less than its track record.
How it’s computed
Reverse DCF: the same 10-year free-cash-flow model as our fair value estimate (9.5% discount rate, growth for years 1–5 fading to 3% by year 10, 3% after), solved for the growth that makes it equal the market value at each price. For the high and the low we use only the filings that were public on that day, so nothing from a later report leaks back. Market value = that close × diluted shares. P/E = market value / 12-month net income; Price / FCF = market value / 12-month free cash flow; EV / Sales = (market value + debt − cash) / 12-month revenue. Hidden when the share count moved over 20% (split, merger), free cash flow is negative, or the company reports in another currency.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 11.1% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 9.1%; bull = 8.5% and 13.1% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price is below even the bear case.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, FRO’s free cash flow would need to grow about 5% a year for five years; our estimate uses 11%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much FRO moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 3.5× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.48
- Volatility
- 45% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.14
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.10
How it ranks
Where FRO stands vs every one of the 1,996 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Top quarter on 2 of 5 measures
- Discount to fair value estimate44% · price below our base caseTop 23%of 1,314
- Free cash flow yield5.8% · free cash flow vs market capTop 33%of 1,391
- Dividends + buybacks yield1.8% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capLowest 38%of 1,836
- Revenue growth, last 12 months−8.8% · vs the 12 months beforeLowest 3%of 1,814
- Operating margin30% · of sales kept as operating profitTop 11%of 1,288
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
DCF $74.91 · FCF value $31.43
Assumes 11.1% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 11.1% a year FY22–FY25), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $3.01 a share (fiscal year to Dec 31, 2025), from the 20-F filed Mar 27, 2026.
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
ValuationOur DCF fair value estimate is $74.91, 44% above the price.
ValuationFree-cash-flow yield of 5.8% (price / FCF 17.3×): $670M of free cash in the last 12 months.
ProfitabilityOperating margin of 30% over the last 12 months.
GrowthSales compounded 11% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to 30.4% in FY2025 from 40.9% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
GrowthSales growth slowed to −9% over the last 12 months, from 11% a year over the prior three fiscal years.
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only 2.6× over the last 12 months.
GrowthDiluted EPS fell 24% to $1.70 in FY2025.
GrowthSales fell 9% over the last 12 months vs the 12 months before (SEC filings).
All fundamentals
P/E 30.6 · FCF yield 5.8% · Sales −9%
Valuation
- P/E
- 30.6×Consumer Discretionary median 20.7×
- Price / FCF
- 17.3×
- FCF yield
- 5.8%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 5.88×
- Price / book
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Market cap
- $11.6Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $2.0B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- −8.8%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +11.1%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $1.70
- EPS growth, last FY
- −23.8%
- Net income, 12 months
- $379M
- Net income growth
- −24%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/agross profit isn't reported (common for service and financial companies)
- Operating margin
- 30.4%
- Net margin
- 19.2%
- FCF margin
- 34.0%
- Return on equity
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- 2.6×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $670M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- 1.79%$207M paid
- Payout ratio
- 55%
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- n/ano quarterly diluted share count
- Stock-based comp
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Trailing 12 months to Dec 31, 2025. From Frontline Plc’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $0.3B · Sales +96%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.3B
- Free-cash-flow yield5.8%
- Free-cash-flow margin10%
- Gross margin63%
- Operating margin66%
- Return on invested capital27%
- Return on equity54%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+96%
- Net debt / EBITDA1.3×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $52.08
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$20.58−60.5%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$52.08you are here
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$59.19+13.7%
- Fair value est.base case$74.91+43.8%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 48 · 5 days −5.7%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Next report
Nov 20
- DateFri Nov 20
- Year-ago EPS$0.19
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
FRO is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Frontline Plc in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Marine Transportation
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.