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Cargills (Ceylon) (COL:CARG.N0000) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 52.57 (As of Jun. 08, 2025)


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What is Cargills (Ceylon) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-06-08), Cargills (Ceylon)'s current share price is රු562.00. Cargills (Ceylon)'s Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was රු10.69. Cargills (Ceylon)'s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 52.57.

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

COL:CARG.N0000' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 40.22   Med: 85.72   Max: 351.87
Current: 51.23

During the past years, Cargills (Ceylon)'s highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 351.87. The lowest was 40.22. And the median was 85.72.

COL:CARG.N0000's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
87.79% of 131 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 16.23 vs COL:CARG.N0000: 51.23

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.

Cargills (Ceylon)'s adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was රු7.014. 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 රු10.69 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2025.

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Cargills (Ceylon) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Cargills (Ceylon)'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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Cargills (Ceylon) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Cargills (Ceylon) Annual Data
Trend Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24 Mar25
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 93.27 92.80 56.52 40.80

Cargills (Ceylon) Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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 56.52 59.07 53.56 41.93 40.80

Competitive Comparison of Cargills (Ceylon)'s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Grocery Stores subindustry, Cargills (Ceylon)'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.


Cargills (Ceylon)'s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

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

* The bar in red indicates where Cargills (Ceylon)'s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF falls into.


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Cargills (Ceylon) 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.

Cargills (Ceylon)'s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=562.00/10.69
=52.57

* 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.

Cargills (Ceylon)'s Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

For example, Cargills (Ceylon)'s adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Mar. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar. 2025)
=7.014/134.9266*134.9266
=7.014

Current CPI (Mar. 2025) = 134.9266.

Cargills (Ceylon) Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201506 2.317 100.684 3.105
201509 3.509 100.392 4.716
201512 3.258 99.792 4.405
201603 2.854 100.470 3.833
201606 -1.096 101.688 -1.454
201609 3.768 101.861 4.991
201612 0.716 101.863 0.948
201703 -7.653 102.862 -10.039
201706 2.135 103.349 2.787
201709 1.609 104.136 2.085
201712 -1.545 104.011 -2.004
201803 -5.356 105.290 -6.864
201806 -6.986 106.317 -8.866
201809 5.564 106.507 7.049
201812 -1.250 105.998 -1.591
201903 -1.076 107.251 -1.354
201906 -0.020 108.070 -0.025
201909 0.338 108.329 0.421
201912 2.853 108.420 3.551
202003 0.552 108.902 0.684
202006 4.291 108.767 5.323
202009 1.671 109.815 2.053
202012 15.093 109.897 18.531
202103 -0.817 111.754 -0.986
202106 3.988 114.631 4.694
202109 -1.524 115.734 -1.777
202112 11.791 117.630 13.525
202203 10.653 121.301 11.850
202206 -18.906 125.017 -20.405
202209 -15.504 125.227 -16.705
202212 11.754 125.222 12.665
202303 8.772 127.348 9.294
202306 -1.239 128.729 -1.299
202309 4.635 129.860 4.816
202312 15.398 129.419 16.053
202403 7.289 131.776 7.463
202406 -5.269 132.554 -5.363
202409 25.721 133.029 26.088
202412 7.561 133.157 7.661
202503 7.014 134.927 7.014

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.


Cargills (Ceylon)  (COL:CARG.N0000) 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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Cargills (Ceylon) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
N/A
Address
No. 40, York Street, Colombo, LKA, 01
Cargills (Ceylon) PLC operates a chain of supermarkets and convenience stores. It is engaged in the manufacturing and trading of food and beverage products in Sri Lanka. The company's operating segment includes Food Retailing, Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Distribution, Restaurant, and Real estate. It generates maximum from the Food Retailing segment. The Food Retailing segment operates a chain of retail outlets under the brand names of Food City, Food City Express, and Food Hall. The company processes and markets processed meat, dairy ice cream, yogurt, cheese, milk, nectar and fruit juices, jams, cordials, sauces, and biscuits as well as produces and distributes agricultural seeds.

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