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Family Dollar Stores (FRA:FAY) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of May. 15, 2024)


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What is Family Dollar Stores 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.

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Family Dollar Stores Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Family Dollar Stores's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF can be seen below:

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Family Dollar Stores Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Family Dollar Stores's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Family Dollar Stores'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.


Family Dollar Stores's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Family Dollar Stores's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Family Dollar Stores 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.

Family Dollar Stores's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in May. 2015 is calculated as:

For example, Family Dollar Stores's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in May. 2015 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of May. 2015 (Change)*Current CPI (May. 2015)
=1.268/100.3325*100.3325
=1.268

Current CPI (May. 2015) = 100.3325.

Family Dollar Stores Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
200508 -0.023 82.863 -0.028
200511 -0.067 83.370 -0.081
200602 1.053 83.834 1.260
200605 -0.071 85.437 -0.083
200608 0.458 86.028 0.534
200611 0.139 85.015 0.164
200702 0.928 85.858 1.084
200705 0.289 87.736 0.330
200708 0.078 87.722 0.089
200711 0.088 88.676 0.100
200802 0.926 89.316 1.040
200805 0.093 91.399 0.102
200808 0.560 92.435 0.608
200811 -0.118 89.624 -0.132
200902 1.182 89.527 1.325
200905 0.147 90.228 0.163
200908 0.769 91.063 0.847
200911 -0.194 91.272 -0.213
201002 1.450 91.445 1.591
201005 0.025 92.052 0.027
201008 0.821 92.108 0.894
201011 -0.449 92.315 -0.488
201102 0.958 93.373 1.029
201105 -0.047 95.337 -0.049
201108 0.612 95.582 0.642
201111 -1.105 95.449 -1.162
201202 1.007 96.053 1.052
201205 -0.782 96.961 -0.809
201208 -0.660 97.199 -0.681
201211 -1.503 97.133 -1.553
201302 -0.324 97.953 -0.332
201305 0.000 98.282 0.000
201308 0.012 98.675 0.012
201311 -0.556 98.334 -0.567
201402 -0.137 99.057 -0.139
201405 0.342 100.373 0.342
201408 0.572 100.352 0.572
201411 -1.377 99.635 -1.387
201502 0.944 99.032 0.956
201505 1.268 100.333 1.268

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.


Family Dollar Stores  (FRA:FAY) 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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Family Dollar Stores (FRA:FAY) Business Description

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Family Dollar Stores Inc was incorporated in November 1959. The Company provides consumers with a selection of competitively priced merchandise in convenient neighbourhood stores. Its merchandise assortment includes Consumables, Home Products, Apparel and Accessories, and Seasonal and Electronics. It classifies the combination of Home Products, Apparel and Accessories, and Seasonal and Electronics as Discretionary. It operates general merchandise retail discount stores in 46 states, serving the basic needs of customers primarily in the low- and middle-income brackets. The stores are supported by 11 distribution centers and one Store Support Center. It competes for sales and store locations in varying degrees with international, national, regional and local retailing establishments, other discount stores, department stores, variety stores, dollar stores, discount clothing stores, drug stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, outlet stores, warehouse stores and other stores. The Company's trademark includes Family Dollar and Family Dollar Stores. Its business is subject to federal, state, local, and international laws, rules, and regulations, such as state and local wage and hour laws, anti-corruption laws, import and export laws, unclaimed property laws, and many others.

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