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Discover Financial Services (Discover Financial Services) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of Jun. 03, 2024)


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What is Discover Financial Services Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

Note: If the price history is too short, we do not calculate current Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for this stock. All the historical data is shown as the company's primary share's data instead.

Discover Financial Services does not have a history long enough to calculate Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share. Therefore GuruFocus does not calculate Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for this company.

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Discover Financial Services Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Discover Financial Services's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF can be seen below:

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Discover Financial Services Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Discover Financial Services Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
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Discover Financial Services Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Discover Financial Services's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Credit Services subindustry, Discover Financial Services'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.


Discover Financial Services's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Credit Services Industry

For the Credit Services industry and Financial Services sector, Discover Financial Services's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Discover Financial Services 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.

Discover Financial Services does not have a history long enough to calculate Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share. Therefore GuruFocus does not calculate Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for this company.


Discover Financial Services  (NYSE:DFSpB_CL.PFD) 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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Discover Financial Services (Discover Financial Services) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
2500 Lake Cook Road, Riverwoods, IL, USA, 60015
Discover Financial Services is a bank operating in two distinct segments: direct banking and payment services. The company issues credit and debit cards and provides other consumer banking products including deposit accounts, students loans, and other personal loans. It also operates the Discover, Pulse, and Diners Club networks. The Discover network is the fourth-largest payment network in the United States as ranked by overall purchase volume, and Pulse is one of the largest ATM networks in the country.