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Salesforce (BSP:SSFO34) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 58.89 (As of Apr. 30, 2024)


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What is Salesforce Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-04-30), Salesforce's current share price is R$64.19. Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was R$1.09. Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 58.89.

The historical rank and industry rank for Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF or its related term are showing as below:

BSP:SSFO34' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 35.24   Med: 89.03   Max: 135.3
Current: 57.44

During the past years, Salesforce's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 135.30. The lowest was 35.24. And the median was 89.03.

BSP:SSFO34's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
69.6% of 671 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 28.01 vs BSP:SSFO34: 57.44

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.

Salesforce's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was R$0.742. Add all the adjusted free cash flow per share for the past 10 years together and divide 10 will get our Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share, which is R$1.09 for the trailing ten years ended in Jan. 2024.

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Salesforce Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF 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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Salesforce Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Salesforce Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 89.73 90.88 74.11 43.52 58.56

Salesforce Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF 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 43.52 46.21 51.46 44.38 58.56

Competitive Comparison of Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Software - Application subindustry, Salesforce'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.


Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Salesforce 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=64.19/1.09
=58.89

* 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.

Salesforce's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 is calculated as:

For example, Salesforce's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Jan. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Jan. 2024)
=0.742/129.4194*129.4194
=0.742

Current CPI (Jan. 2024) = 129.4194.

Salesforce Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201404 0.068 100.023 0.088
201407 0.029 100.520 0.037
201410 -0.012 100.176 -0.016
201501 0.069 98.604 0.091
201504 0.050 99.824 0.065
201507 0.053 100.691 0.068
201510 0.022 100.346 0.028
201601 0.111 99.957 0.144
201604 0.228 100.947 0.292
201607 0.033 101.524 0.042
201610 0.003 101.988 0.004
201701 0.115 102.456 0.145
201704 0.212 103.167 0.266
201707 0.040 103.278 0.050
201710 0.003 104.070 0.004
201801 0.178 104.578 0.220
201804 0.276 105.708 0.338
201807 0.065 106.324 0.079
201810 0.002 106.695 0.002
201901 0.252 106.200 0.307
201904 0.403 107.818 0.484
201907 0.056 108.250 0.067
201910 0.027 108.577 0.032
202001 0.309 108.841 0.367
202004 0.407 108.173 0.487
202007 0.082 109.318 0.097
202010 0.059 109.861 0.070
202101 0.524 110.364 0.614
202104 0.823 112.673 0.945
202107 0.043 115.183 0.048
202110 0.060 116.696 0.067
202201 0.454 118.619 0.495
202204 0.755 121.978 0.801
202207 0.032 125.002 0.033
202210 0.027 125.734 0.028
202301 0.616 126.223 0.632
202304 0.981 127.992 0.992
202307 0.139 128.974 0.139
202310 0.320 129.810 0.319
202401 0.742 129.419 0.742

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.


Salesforce  (BSP:SSFO34) 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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Salesforce (BSP:SSFO34) Business Description

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Salesforce Inc provides enterprise cloud computing solutions. The company offers customer relationship management technology that brings companies and customers together. Its Customer 360 platform helps the group to deliver a single source of truth, connecting customer data across systems, apps, and devices to help companies sell, service, market, and conduct commerce. It also offers Service Cloud for customer support, Marketing Cloud for digital marketing campaigns, Commerce Cloud as an e-commerce engine, the Salesforce Platform, which allows enterprises to build applications, and other solutions, such as MuleSoft for data integration.

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