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The Chefs' Warehouse (STU:2CF) Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share : €0.66 (As of Mar. 2025)


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What is The Chefs' Warehouse Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share?

E10 is a concept invented by Prof. Robert Shiller, who uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share and the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF. The Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share of a company over the past 10 years.

The Chefs' Warehouse's adjusted free cash flow per share for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was €0.747. Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share for the past 10 years together and divide the count will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share, which is €0.66 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2025.

During the past 12 months, The Chefs' Warehouse's average Cyclically Adjusted FCF Growth Rate was 125.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Cyclically Adjusted FCF Growth Rate was 18.80% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Cyclically Adjusted FCF Growth Rate was -4.30% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the Cyclically Adjusted FCF Growth Rate using Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share data.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Cyclically Adjusted FCF Growth Rate of The Chefs' Warehouse was 18.80% per year. The lowest was -20.20% per year. And the median was -17.80% per year.

As of today (2025-05-28), The Chefs' Warehouse's current stock price is €55.50. The Chefs' Warehouse's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was €0.66. The Chefs' Warehouse's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF of today is 84.09.

During the past 13 years, the highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF of The Chefs' Warehouse was 221.35. The lowest was 10.26. And the median was 87.29.


The Chefs' Warehouse Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share Historical Data

The historical data trend for The Chefs' Warehouse's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share can be seen below:

* 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.

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The Chefs' Warehouse Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share Chart

The Chefs' Warehouse Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.46 0.32 0.27 0.28 0.58

The Chefs' Warehouse Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.30 0.38 0.43 0.58 0.66

Competitive Comparison of The Chefs' Warehouse's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share

For the Food Distribution subindustry, The Chefs' Warehouse'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.


The Chefs' Warehouse's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, The Chefs' Warehouse's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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


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The Chefs' Warehouse Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share Calculation

E10 is a concept invented by Prof. Robert Shiller, who uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share and the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF. The Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share of a company over the past 10 years.

What is Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share? How do we calculate Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share?

Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share of a company over the past 10 years. Let's use an example to explain.

If we want to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share of Wal-Mart (WMT) for Dec. 31, 2010, we need to have the inflation data and the free cash flow per share from 2001 through 2010.

We adjusted the 2001 free cash flow per share data with the total inflation from 2001 through 2010 to the equivalent free cash flow in 2010. If the total inflation from 2001 to 2010 is 40%, and Wal-Mart's free cash flow is $1 a share in 2001, then the 2001's equivalent free cash flow in 2010 is $1.4 a share. If Wal-Mart's free cash flow is $1 again in 2002, and the total inflation from 2002 through 2010 is 35%, then the equivalent 2002 free cash flow in 2010 is $1.35. So on and so forth, you get the equivalent free cash flow per share of past 10 years. Then you add them together and divided the sum by the count to get 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.

For example, The Chefs' Warehouse's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare= Free Cash Flow per Share /CPI of Mar. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar. 2025)
=0.747/134.9266*134.9266
=0.747

Current CPI (Mar. 2025) = 134.9266.

The Chefs' Warehouse Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201506 -0.225 100.684 -0.302
201509 0.202 100.392 0.271
201512 0.627 99.792 0.848
201603 0.199 100.470 0.267
201606 -0.360 101.688 -0.478
201609 0.494 101.861 0.654
201612 0.453 101.863 0.600
201703 0.157 102.862 0.206
201706 0.357 103.349 0.466
201709 -0.060 104.136 -0.078
201712 0.157 104.011 0.204
201803 0.220 105.290 0.282
201806 0.166 106.317 0.211
201809 0.309 106.507 0.391
201812 0.034 105.998 0.043
201903 0.097 107.251 0.122
201906 0.299 108.070 0.373
201909 -0.064 108.329 -0.080
201912 0.511 108.420 0.636
202003 0.577 108.902 0.715
202006 0.660 108.767 0.819
202009 0.124 109.815 0.152
202012 -0.286 109.897 -0.351
202103 -0.336 111.754 -0.406
202106 -0.424 114.631 -0.499
202109 -0.245 115.734 -0.286
202112 -0.348 117.630 -0.399
202203 -0.095 121.301 -0.106
202206 0.005 125.017 0.005
202209 0.091 125.227 0.098
202212 -0.578 125.222 -0.623
202303 -0.268 127.348 -0.284
202306 -0.029 128.729 -0.030
202309 -0.056 129.860 -0.058
202312 0.272 129.419 0.284
202403 0.329 131.776 0.337
202406 0.268 132.554 0.273
202409 0.232 133.029 0.235
202412 1.334 133.157 1.352
202503 0.747 134.927 0.747

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


The Chefs' Warehouse  (STU:2CF) Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share Explanation

If a company grows much fast than inflation, Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share may underestimate the company's free cash flow. Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF can seem to be too high even the actual Price-to-Free-Cash-Flow is low.

For the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF, the free cash flow per share of the past 10 years are inflation-adjusted and averaged. The result is used for P/FCF calculation. Since it looks at the average over the last 10 years, the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is also called CAPFCF Ratio.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller. He uses E10 for his Shiller PE Ratio calculation. E10 is the average of the inflation adjusted earnings per share of a company over the past 10 years. The similar calculation is applied by GuruFocus to calculate the Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF. The Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share is the average of the inflation adjusted free cash flow per share of a company over the past 10 years.

The Chefs' Warehouse's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF of today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=55.50/0.66
=84.09

* 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.

During the past 13 years, the highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF of The Chefs' Warehouse was 221.35. The lowest was 10.26. And the median was 87.29.


Be Aware

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF works better for cyclical companies. It gives you a better idea on the company's real free cash flow value.


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The Chefs' Warehouse Business Description

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Address
100 East Ridge Road, Ridgefield, CT, USA, 06877
The Chefs' Warehouse Inc is a specialty food distributor in metropolitan areas across the United States and Canada. The company's product portfolio is comprised of imported and local specialty food products such as cheese, cooking oils, chocolates, dried food, baking products, meats, and other food products. It operates via one reporting segment called Food Product Distribution. Operations are concentrated on the east, midwest, and west coasts of the U.S. The company provides service to restaurants, clubs, hotels, caterers, schools, bakeries, casinos, and specialty food stores.

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