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Actual Experience (LSE:ACT) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of Nov. 10, 2024)


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What is Actual Experience Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

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Actual Experience Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Actual Experience's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF can be seen below:

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Actual Experience Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Actual Experience's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Information Technology Services subindustry, Actual Experience'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.


Actual Experience's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Actual Experience 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.

Actual Experience's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Sep22 is calculated as:

For example, Actual Experience's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the fiscal year that ended in Sep22 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Sep22 (Change)*Current CPI (Sep22)
=-0.092/122.3000*122.3000
=-0.092

Current CPI (Sep22) = 122.3000.

Actual Experience Annual Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201207 -0.017 95.700 -0.022
201409 -0.058 100.000 -0.071
201509 -0.075 100.200 -0.092
201609 -0.161 101.500 -0.194
201709 -0.196 104.300 -0.230
201809 -0.170 106.600 -0.195
201909 -0.124 108.400 -0.140
202009 -0.105 109.200 -0.118
202109 -0.072 112.400 -0.078
202209 -0.092 122.300 -0.092

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.


Actual Experience  (LSE:ACT) 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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Actual Experience Business Description

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Actual Experience PLC operates in the United Kingdom technology sector. Its analytics services aid companies that provide digital services. The company's main product is a cloud analytics platform that transforms the measurements of the digital products and services into a real-time digital voice of the customer quality scores. It fragments its services based on its end-user into the Actual Work, Actual Home, and Actual Work Web trademark products. Actual Work analyses infrastructure and application elements in each delivery path as a supplier in a digital supply chain. The company operates in the United Kingdom, and the United States of America of which it generates maximum revenue from the United States of America.