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Highway Capital (LSE:HWC) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of Jun. 04, 2024)


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What is Highway Capital Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

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Highway Capital Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Highway Capital's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF can be seen below:

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Highway Capital Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Highway Capital Annual Data
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Competitive Comparison of Highway Capital's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Conglomerates subindustry, Highway Capital's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF, along with its competitors' market caps and Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Highway Capital's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Conglomerates Industry

For the Conglomerates industry and Industrials sector, Highway Capital's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Highway Capital's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF falls into.



Highway Capital Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Calculation

Like the Shiller PE Ratio, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF takes the Free Cash Flow per Share from the past 10 years, adjusts it for inflation, and then calculates the average. This average is then used for the P/FCF calculation. Because it considers this 10-year average, it's often referred to as the CAPFCF Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF.

Highway Capital's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Feb22 is calculated as:

For example, Highway Capital's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the fiscal year that ended in Feb22 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Feb22 (Change)*Current CPI (Feb22)
=-0.027/115.4000*115.4000
=-0.027

Current CPI (Feb22) = 115.4000.

Highway Capital Annual Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201302 -0.010 97.500 -0.012
201402 -0.016 99.100 -0.019
201502 -0.004 99.500 -0.005
201602 -0.015 100.100 -0.017
201702 -0.006 102.400 -0.007
201802 -0.004 104.900 -0.004
201902 -0.016 106.800 -0.017
202002 -0.025 108.600 -0.027
202102 -0.012 109.400 -0.013
202202 -0.027 115.400 -0.027

Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share.

Please note that we use the CPI data of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the CPI data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the CPI data of the United States as default.


Highway Capital  (LSE:HWC) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Explanation

Compared with the regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF smoothed out the fluctuations of free cash flow during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF should give similar results to regular Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow.


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Highway Capital (LSE:HWC) Business Description

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Address
Reynolds Road, Eden House, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, GBR, HP9 2FL
Highway Capital PLC is a United Kingdom-based company. The company focuses on investing in or acquiring undervalued companies with either strong asset backing or opportunities, which possess high barriers to entry.

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