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Walmart (BUE:WMT) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 41.17 (As of Jan. 18, 2025)


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What is Walmart Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-01-18), Walmart's current share price is ARS6090.00. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2024 was ARS147.91. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 41.17.

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

BUE:WMT' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 16.54   Med: 22.69   Max: 41.61
Current: 39.91

During the past years, Walmart's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 41.61. The lowest was 16.54. And the median was 22.69.

BUE:WMT's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
82.05% of 117 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 15.02 vs BUE:WMT: 39.91

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 Oct. 2024 was ARS133.942. 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 ARS147.91 for the trailing ten years ended in Oct. 2024.

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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 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 22.65 24.74 22.85 22.27 24.25

Walmart Quarterly Data
Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24
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 24.55 24.25 26.35 29.89 35.57

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.



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
=6090.00/147.91
=41.17

* 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 Oct. 2024 is calculated as:

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

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Oct. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Oct. 2024)
=133.942/133.1820*133.1820
=133.942

Current CPI (Oct. 2024) = 133.1820.

Walmart Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201501 24.411 98.604 32.972
201504 6.159 99.824 8.217
201507 8.004 100.691 10.587
201510 5.116 100.346 6.790
201601 40.450 99.957 53.895
201604 18.542 100.947 24.463
201607 30.489 101.524 39.997
201610 9.950 101.988 12.993
201701 45.248 102.456 58.817
201704 17.159 103.167 22.151
201707 20.873 103.278 26.917
201710 18.983 104.070 24.293
201801 53.625 104.578 68.293
201804 22.657 105.708 28.546
201807 34.017 106.324 42.610
201810 48.858 106.695 60.987
201901 91.913 106.200 115.265
201904 20.365 107.818 25.156
201907 73.362 108.250 90.259
201910 9.259 108.577 11.357
202001 162.980 108.841 199.429
202004 119.123 108.173 146.663
202007 250.598 109.318 305.305
202010 28.232 109.861 34.225
202101 277.248 110.364 334.569
202104 20.897 112.673 24.701
202107 230.205 115.183 266.178
202110 10.559 116.696 12.051
202201 124.501 118.619 139.786
202204 -293.252 121.978 -320.187
202207 413.203 125.002 440.243
202210 102.644 125.734 108.724
202301 545.311 126.223 575.375
202304 13.342 127.992 13.883
202307 834.022 128.974 861.231
202310 -601.387 129.810 -617.010
202401 3,227.014 130.124 3,302.841
202404 -135.879 132.289 -136.796
202407 2,127.546 132.708 2,135.148
202410 133.942 133.182 133.942

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  (BUE:WMT) 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.


Walmart Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Related Terms

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Walmart Business Description

Address
702 S.W. 8th Street, Bentonville, AR, USA, 72716
Walmart serves as the preeminent 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 $440 billion in domestic namesake sales in fiscal 2024, with Sam's Club contributing another $86 billion to the company's top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $115 billion in sales. The retailer serves around 240 million customers globally each week.