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Walmart (BSP:WALM34) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 42.71 (As of Jun. 06, 2025)


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What is Walmart Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-06-06), Walmart's current share price is R$34.17. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 was R$0.80. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 42.71.

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

BSP:WALM34' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 16.54   Med: 22.69   Max: 45.83
Current: 43.23

During the past years, Walmart's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 45.83. The lowest was 16.54. And the median was 22.69.

BSP:WALM34's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
84.73% of 131 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 16.41 vs BSP:WALM34: 43.23

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.

Walmart's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Apr. 2025 was R$0.019. 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$0.80 for the trailing ten years ended in Apr. 2025.

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Walmart Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Walmart Annual Data
Trend Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24 Jan25
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 24.74 22.85 22.27 24.25 43.24

Walmart Quarterly Data
Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24 Jan25 Apr25
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 26.35 29.89 35.57 43.24 42.91

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

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart'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.


Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

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

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


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Walmart 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=34.17/0.80
=42.71

* 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.

Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 is calculated as:

For example, Walmart's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Apr. 2025 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Apr. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Apr. 2025)
=0.019/135.3468*135.3468
=0.019

Current CPI (Apr. 2025) = 135.3468.

Walmart Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201507 0.059 100.691 0.079
201510 0.043 100.346 0.058
201601 0.247 99.957 0.334
201604 0.094 100.947 0.126
201607 0.139 101.524 0.185
201610 0.043 101.988 0.057
201701 0.189 102.456 0.250
201704 0.073 103.167 0.096
201707 0.078 103.278 0.102
201710 0.071 104.070 0.092
201801 0.183 104.578 0.237
201804 0.080 105.708 0.102
201807 0.094 106.324 0.120
201810 0.093 106.695 0.118
201901 0.190 106.200 0.242
201904 0.038 107.818 0.048
201907 0.136 108.250 0.170
201910 0.014 108.577 0.017
202001 0.235 108.841 0.292
202004 0.205 108.173 0.256
202007 0.390 109.318 0.483
202010 0.043 109.861 0.053
202101 0.369 110.364 0.453
202104 0.026 112.673 0.031
202107 0.258 115.183 0.303
202110 0.012 116.696 0.014
202201 0.140 118.619 0.160
202204 -0.261 121.978 -0.290
202207 0.369 125.002 0.400
202210 0.076 125.734 0.082
202301 0.334 126.223 0.358
202304 0.008 127.992 0.008
202307 0.325 128.974 0.341
202310 -0.181 129.810 -0.189
202401 0.409 130.124 0.425
202404 -0.017 132.289 -0.017
202407 0.269 132.708 0.274
202410 0.016 133.182 0.016
202501 0.299 134.029 0.302
202504 0.019 135.347 0.019

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.


Walmart  (BSP:WALM34) 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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Walmart Business Description

Address
702 S.W. 8th Street, Bentonville, AR, USA, 72716
Walmart is a leading retailer in the United States, with its strategy predicated on superior operating efficiency and offering the lowest priced goods to consumers to drive robust store traffic and product turnover. Walmart augmented its low-price business strategy by offering a convenient one-stop shopping destination with the opening of its first supercenter in 1988.Today, Walmart operates over 4,600 stores in the United States (5,200 including Sam's Club) and over 10,000 locations globally. Walmart generated over $460 billion in domestic namesake sales in fiscal 2025, with Sam's Club contributing another $90 billion to the company's top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $120 billion in sales. The retailer serves around 270 million customers globally each week.

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