RE:GUD and INFLATIONYes, that has been the truth but look forward.
Currently, if you subtract cash and investmenets (which have been earning a double digit return) you are left with a market cap of around $270M. Divide cash flow of 40M by market cap and you get about 15% cash yield.
Even with cash and investments earning nothing then you get your return of 7.5% a year over time which will sooner or later be reflected in the stock price theoretically.
Except that cash is not sitting idle. Plenty is invested in funds that have done well, or debt that is achieving double digit returns and management has put a lot of idle cash to work with Exelon.
Therefore, as aluded to before, if management can put that cash and divest from the funds and reinvest at similar returns then you can easily forecast 15% return per annum over time.
That will be a great hedge against inflation.
Also, notice how when the market is selling off with higher interest rates that GUD is steady. I believe thats for two reasons. 1) There's some room to raise prices of our products and 2) the optionality of cash on the balance sheet is becoming more useful.
What once was a hinderence with cheap interest rates where anyone could raise cheap money, now is becoming more expensive and we have plenty of cash when valuations are getting squeezed.