Vianet Group (LSE:VNET) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 36.33 (As of Jun. 05, 2024)

Vianet Group Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Vianet Group Annual Data
	Trend	Mar14	Mar15	Mar16	Mar17	Mar18	Mar19	Mar20	Mar21	Mar22	Mar23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					23.40	15.98	21.29	19.00	22.23

Vianet Group Semi-Annual Data
	Mar14	Sep14	Mar15	Sep15	Mar16	Sep16	Mar17	Sep17	Mar18	Sep18	Mar19	Sep19	Mar20	Sep20	Mar21	Sep21	Mar22	Sep22	Mar23	Sep23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															-	19.00	-	22.23	-

Competitive Comparison of Vianet Group's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Specialty Business Services subindustry, Vianet Group'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.

Vianet Group's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Business Services Industry

For the Business Services industry and Industrials sector, Vianet Group's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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

Vianet Group 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.

Vianet Group's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is calculated as

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Vianet Group's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Mar23 is calculated as:

For example, Vianet Group's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the fiscal year that ended in Mar23 was:

Current CPI (Mar23) = 126.8000.

Vianet Group Annual Data

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.

Vianet Group  (LSE:VNET) 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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