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Harmonic (FRA:HMC) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 64.90 (As of May. 09, 2025)


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What is Harmonic Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-05-09), Harmonic's current share price is €7.788. Harmonic's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was €0.12. Harmonic's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 64.90.

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

FRA:HMC' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 11.39   Med: 47.75   Max: 362.25
Current: 68.38

During the past years, Harmonic's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 362.25. The lowest was 11.39. And the median was 47.75.

FRA:HMC's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
75.62% of 1009 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 27.08 vs FRA:HMC: 68.38

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.

Harmonic's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was €0.646. 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 €0.12 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2025.

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Harmonic Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Harmonic Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 45.01 67.84 115.40 195.60 222.38

Harmonic 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 169.05 284.01 298.10 222.38 72.22

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

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Harmonic'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.


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

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

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


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Harmonic 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=7.788/0.12
=64.90

* 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.

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

For example, Harmonic'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)
=0.646/134.9266*134.9266
=0.646

Current CPI (Mar. 2025) = 134.9266.

Harmonic Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201506 0.079 100.684 0.106
201509 -0.080 100.392 -0.108
201512 -0.067 99.792 -0.091
201603 -0.094 100.470 -0.126
201606 -0.091 101.688 -0.121
201609 -0.092 101.861 -0.122
201612 0.114 101.863 0.151
201703 -0.074 102.862 -0.097
201706 0.033 103.349 0.043
201709 -0.121 104.136 -0.157
201712 0.069 104.011 0.090
201803 -0.081 105.290 -0.104
201806 0.085 106.317 0.108
201809 0.009 106.507 0.011
201812 0.043 105.998 0.055
201903 0.026 107.251 0.033
201906 -0.101 108.070 -0.126
201909 0.035 108.329 0.044
201912 0.245 108.420 0.305
202003 -0.211 108.902 -0.261
202006 0.022 108.767 0.027
202009 -0.076 109.815 -0.093
202012 0.298 109.897 0.366
202103 -0.017 111.754 -0.021
202106 0.104 114.631 0.122
202109 0.098 115.734 0.114
202112 0.036 117.630 0.041
202203 -0.261 121.301 -0.290
202206 0.163 125.017 0.176
202209 -0.090 125.227 -0.097
202212 0.141 125.222 0.152
202303 0.031 127.348 0.033
202306 -0.139 128.729 -0.146
202309 0.076 129.860 0.079
202312 0.028 129.419 0.029
202403 0.204 131.776 0.209
202406 -0.195 132.554 -0.198
202409 0.044 133.029 0.045
202412 0.375 133.157 0.380
202503 0.646 134.927 0.646

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.


Harmonic  (FRA:HMC) 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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Harmonic Inc engaged in broadband access solutions that enable broadband operators to more efficiently and effectively deploy high-speed internet for data, voice, and video services for their customers and versatile and high-performance video delivery software, products, system solutions and services that enable its customers to efficiently create, prepare, store, playout and deliver a full range of high-quality broadcast and streaming video services to consumer devices, including televisions, personal computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. It has two segments, Broadband which provides broadband access solutions and related services, and Others; and Video business provides video processing and production and playout solutions and services, and Others.