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Tata Consultancy Services (BOM:532540) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of May. 21, 2024)


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What is Tata Consultancy Services Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

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Tata Consultancy Services Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Tata Consultancy Services's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF can be seen below:

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Tata Consultancy Services Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Tata Consultancy Services Annual Data
Trend Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
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Tata Consultancy Services Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Tata Consultancy Services's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Tata Consultancy Services'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.


Tata Consultancy Services's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Tata Consultancy Services's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Tata Consultancy Services's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF falls into.



Tata Consultancy Services 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.

Tata Consultancy Services's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

For example, Tata Consultancy Services's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Mar. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar. 2024)
=0/153.0345*153.0345
=0.000

Current CPI (Mar. 2024) = 153.0345.

Tata Consultancy Services Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201406 9.459 94.103 15.383
201409 10.865 96.780 17.180
201412 10.870 96.780 17.188
201503 10.720 97.163 16.884
201506 6.055 99.841 9.281
201509 12.578 101.753 18.917
201512 13.685 102.901 20.352
201603 11.123 102.518 16.604
201606 12.738 105.961 18.397
201609 11.977 105.961 17.298
201612 17.971 105.196 26.143
201703 16.260 105.196 23.654
201706 12.446 107.109 17.783
201709 11.445 109.021 16.065
201712 17.567 109.404 24.573
201803 18.889 109.786 26.330
201806 16.092 111.317 22.123
201809 15.727 115.142 20.903
201812 19.739 115.142 26.235
201903 18.060 118.202 23.382
201906 17.133 120.880 21.690
201909 19.814 123.175 24.617
201912 20.262 126.235 24.564
202003 20.395 124.705 25.028
202006 21.309 127.000 25.677
202009 25.474 130.118 29.961
202012 28.126 130.889 32.885
202103 20.298 131.771 23.574
202106 24.971 134.084 28.500
202109 23.795 135.847 26.806
202112 24.987 138.161 27.677
202203 26.153 138.822 28.831
202206 26.015 142.347 27.968
202209 26.149 144.661 27.663
202212 25.973 145.763 27.269
202303 28.080 146.865 29.260
202306 27.892 150.280 28.403
202309 29.961 151.492 30.266
202312 0.000 152.924 0.000
202403 0.000 153.035 0.000

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.


Tata Consultancy Services  (BOM:532540) 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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Tata Consultancy Services (BOM:532540) Business Description

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Address
Raveline Street, TCS House, Fort, Mumbai, MH, IND, 400001
Tata Consultancy Services is a leading global IT services provider, with nearly 450,000 employees. Based in Mumbai, the India IT services firm leverages its offshore outsourcing model to derive half of its revenue from North America. The company offers traditional IT services offerings: consulting, managed services, and cloud infrastructure services as well as business process outsourcing as a service, or BPaaS.

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