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Walmart (BUE:WMT) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 46.33 (As of Apr. 14, 2025)


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What is Walmart Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-04-14), Walmart's current share price is ARS6900.00. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2025 was ARS148.93. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 46.33.

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: 45.83
Current: 40.88

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.

BUE:WMT's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
84.62% of 130 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 14.795 vs BUE:WMT: 40.88

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 Jan. 2025 was ARS2,513.450. 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 ARS148.93 for the trailing ten years ended in Jan. 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
Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24 Jul24 Oct24 Jan25
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 24.25 26.35 29.89 35.57 43.24

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
=6900.00/148.93
=46.33

* 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 Jan. 2025 is calculated as:

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

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Jan. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Jan. 2025)
=2513.45/134.0288*134.0288
=2,513.450

Current CPI (Jan. 2025) = 134.0288.

Walmart Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201504 6.159 99.824 8.269
201507 8.004 100.691 10.654
201510 5.116 100.346 6.833
201601 40.450 99.957 54.238
201604 18.542 100.947 24.619
201607 30.489 101.524 40.251
201610 9.950 101.988 13.076
201701 45.248 102.456 59.191
201704 17.159 103.167 22.292
201707 20.873 103.278 27.088
201710 18.983 104.070 24.448
201801 53.625 104.578 68.727
201804 22.657 105.708 28.727
201807 34.017 106.324 42.881
201810 48.858 106.695 61.375
201901 91.913 106.200 115.998
201904 20.365 107.818 25.316
201907 73.362 108.250 90.833
201910 9.259 108.577 11.429
202001 162.980 108.841 200.697
202004 119.123 108.173 147.596
202007 250.598 109.318 307.246
202010 28.232 109.861 34.443
202101 277.248 110.364 336.696
202104 20.897 112.673 24.858
202107 230.205 115.183 267.870
202110 10.559 116.696 12.127
202201 124.501 118.619 140.675
202204 -293.252 121.978 -322.223
202207 413.203 125.002 443.042
202210 102.644 125.734 109.415
202301 545.311 126.223 579.034
202304 13.342 127.992 13.971
202307 834.022 128.974 866.707
202310 -601.387 129.810 -620.933
202401 3,227.014 130.124 3,323.841
202404 -135.879 132.289 -137.666
202407 2,127.546 132.708 2,148.724
202410 133.942 133.182 134.794
202501 2,513.450 134.029 2,513.450

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.


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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.