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Amazon.com (LIM:AMZN) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 179.37 (As of Jan. 19, 2025)


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What is Amazon.com Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-01-19), Amazon.com's current share price is $226.00. Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $1.26. Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 179.37.

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

LIM:AMZN' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 86.78   Med: 161.19   Max: 251.59
Current: 178.61

During the past years, Amazon.com's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 251.59. The lowest was 86.78. And the median was 161.19.

LIM:AMZN's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
97.34% of 413 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 12.67 vs LIM:AMZN: 178.61

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.

Amazon.com's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 was $0.312. 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 $1.26 for the trailing ten years ended in Sep. 2024.

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Amazon.com Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Amazon.com'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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Amazon.com Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Amazon.com Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 124.46 167.14 192.43 112.77 145.70

Amazon.com Quarterly Data
Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24
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 149.71 145.70 156.77 156.49 147.30

Competitive Comparison of Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Internet Retail subindustry, Amazon.com'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.


Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Amazon.com 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.

Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is calculated as

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=226.00/1.26
=179.37

* 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.

Amazon.com's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is calculated as:

For example, Amazon.com's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Sep. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Sep. 2024)
=0.312/133.0289*133.0289
=0.312

Current CPI (Sep. 2024) = 133.0289.

Amazon.com Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201412 0.599 99.070 0.804
201503 -0.255 99.621 -0.341
201506 0.082 100.684 0.108
201509 0.148 100.392 0.196
201512 0.711 99.792 0.948
201603 -0.326 100.470 -0.432
201606 0.193 101.688 0.252
201609 0.291 101.861 0.380
201612 0.806 101.863 1.053
201703 -0.384 102.862 -0.497
201706 0.075 103.349 0.097
201709 0.071 104.136 0.091
201712 0.881 104.011 1.127
201803 -0.491 105.290 -0.620
201806 0.421 106.317 0.527
201809 0.523 106.507 0.653
201812 1.274 105.998 1.599
201903 -0.144 107.251 -0.179
201906 0.552 108.070 0.679
201909 0.317 108.329 0.389
201912 1.415 108.420 1.736
202003 -0.369 108.902 -0.451
202006 1.291 108.767 1.579
202009 0.088 109.815 0.107
202012 1.522 109.897 1.842
202103 -0.767 111.754 -0.913
202106 -0.153 114.631 -0.178
202109 -0.818 115.734 -0.940
202112 0.305 117.630 0.345
202203 -1.744 121.301 -1.913
202206 -0.664 125.017 -0.707
202209 -0.481 125.227 -0.511
202212 1.231 125.222 1.308
202303 -0.910 127.348 -0.951
202306 0.481 128.729 0.497
202309 0.828 129.860 0.848
202312 2.627 129.419 2.700
202403 0.381 131.776 0.385
202406 0.715 132.554 0.718
202409 0.312 133.029 0.312

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.


Amazon.com  (LIM:AMZN) 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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Amazon.com Business Description

Address
410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA, USA, 98109-5210
Amazon is the leading online retailer and marketplace for third party sellers. Retail related revenue represents approximately 75% of total, followed by Amazon Web Services' cloud computing, storage, database, and other offerings (15%), advertising services (5% to 10%), and other the remainder. International segments constitute 25% to 30% of Amazon's non-AWS sales, led by Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan.