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Ciena (CIEN) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 45.43 (As of Jul. 08, 2025)


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What is Ciena Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-07-08), Ciena's current share price is $79.04. Ciena's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2025 was $1.74. Ciena's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 45.43.

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

CIEN' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 27.23   Med: 44.44   Max: 3996
Current: 46.04

During the past years, Ciena's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 3996.00. The lowest was 27.23. And the median was 44.44.

CIEN's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
66.2% of 1003 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 28.22 vs CIEN: 46.04

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.

Ciena's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Apr. 2025 was $0.884. 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 $1.74 for the trailing ten years ended in Apr. 2025.

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Ciena Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Ciena Annual Data
Trend Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 44.76 38.20 37.41 31.01 39.31

Ciena 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 27.71 35.04 39.31 52.35 38.59

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

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Ciena'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.


Ciena's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Hardware Industry

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

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


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Ciena 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=79.04/1.74
=45.43

* 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.

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

For example, Ciena'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)
=0.884/135.3468*135.3468
=0.884

Current CPI (Apr. 2025) = 135.3468.

Ciena Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201507 0.748 100.691 1.005
201510 0.455 100.346 0.614
201601 -0.102 99.957 -0.138
201604 0.263 100.947 0.353
201607 0.289 101.524 0.385
201610 0.596 101.988 0.791
201701 -0.365 102.456 -0.482
201704 0.226 103.167 0.296
201707 0.203 103.278 0.266
201710 0.644 104.070 0.838
201801 0.070 104.578 0.091
201804 0.210 105.708 0.269
201807 0.435 106.324 0.554
201810 0.354 106.695 0.449
201901 -0.186 106.200 -0.237
201904 0.532 107.818 0.668
201907 0.440 108.250 0.550
201910 1.446 108.577 1.803
202001 0.083 108.841 0.103
202004 0.467 108.173 0.584
202007 1.021 109.318 1.264
202010 1.060 109.861 1.306
202101 -0.180 110.364 -0.221
202104 1.238 112.673 1.487
202107 0.341 115.183 0.401
202110 1.548 116.696 1.795
202201 -0.515 118.619 -0.588
202204 0.568 121.978 0.630
202207 -1.509 125.002 -1.634
202210 -0.258 125.734 -0.278
202301 -1.977 126.223 -2.120
202304 1.344 127.992 1.421
202307 -0.111 128.974 -0.116
202310 1.168 129.810 1.218
202401 1.711 130.124 1.780
202404 0.287 132.289 0.294
202407 -1.231 132.708 -1.255
202410 1.815 133.182 1.845
202501 0.526 134.029 0.531
202504 0.884 135.347 0.884

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.


Ciena  (NYSE:CIEN) 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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Ciena Business Description

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Address
7035 Ridge Road, Hanover, MD, USA, 21076
Ciena Corp is a network and technology company. It provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks. It serves various industries such as communication services providers, web-scale providers, cable operators, government, and large enterprises world-wide. The business activities function through Networking Platforms which generates maximum revenue; Platform Software and Services; Blue Planet Automation Software, and Global Services segments. Geographically, the company derives a majority of its revenue from the Americas, and the rest from the Asia-Pacific (APAC), and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region.
Executives
Brodie Gage officer: SVP Global Products & Supply 2351 ALFRED-NOBEL BLVD, SUITE N-300, SAINT LAURENT A8 H4S 2A9
David M Rothenstein officer: Sr. VP, General Counsel 7035 RIDGE ROAD, HANOVER MD 21076
Gary B Smith director, officer: President, CEO C/O CIENA CORPORATION, 7035 RIDGE ROAD, HANOVER MD 21076
Dino Diperna officer: SVP Global R&D 385 TERRY FOX DR, OTTAWA A6 K2K OL1
Sheela Kosaraju officer: SVP, General Counsel 43-51 WORSHIP ST, LONDON X0 EC2A 2DX
Jason Phipps officer: SVP Global Sales and Marketing 7410 RIDGE RD, HANOVER MD 21076
Bruce L. Claflin director 7035 RIDGE ROAD, HANOVER MD 21076
Joseph Cumello officer: SVP, General Mgr. Blue Planet 7035 RIDGE RD, HANOVER MD 21076
Scott Mcfeely officer: SVP, Networking Platforms 7035 RIDGE RD, HANOVER MD 21076
Mary G Puma director AXCELIS TECHNOLOGIES INC., 108 CHERRY HILL DRIVE, BEVERLY MA 01915
Andrew C Petrik officer: VP, CONTROLLER 7035 RIDGE ROAD, HANOVER MD 21076
Stephen B Alexander officer: SVP, Chief Technology Officer C/O CIENA CORPORATION, 7035 RIDGE ROAD, HANOVER MD 21076
Rick Hamilton officer: SVP, Software and Services 9500 AMBERGIEN, AUSTIN TX 78729
Moylan James E Jr officer: SVP Finance, CFO CIENA CORPORATION, 7035 RIDGE ROAD, HANOVER MD 21076
Judith M Obrien director 855 MAUDE AVENUE, MOUNTAIN VIEW CA 94043