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Planet Payment (LSE:PPT) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of Jun. 20, 2024)


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What is Planet Payment 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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Planet Payment Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

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Planet Payment Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Planet Payment Annual Data
Trend Dec07 Dec08 Dec09 Dec10 Dec11 Dec12 Dec13 Dec14 Dec15 Dec16
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Planet Payment Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Planet Payment's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Planet Payment'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.


Planet Payment's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Software Industry

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

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



Planet Payment 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.

Planet Payment's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec16 is calculated as:

For example, Planet Payment's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the fiscal year that ended in Dec16 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Dec16 (Change)*Current CPI (Dec16)
=0.139/101.8627*101.8627
=0.139

Current CPI (Dec16) = 101.8627.

Planet Payment Annual Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
200712 -0.246 88.616 -0.283
200812 -0.246 88.697 -0.283
200912 -0.031 91.111 -0.035
201012 -0.033 92.474 -0.036
201112 0.046 95.213 0.049
201212 -0.002 96.871 -0.002
201312 0.001 98.326 0.001
201412 0.044 99.070 0.045
201512 0.133 99.792 0.136
201612 0.139 101.863 0.139

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.


Planet Payment  (LSE:PPT) 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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Planet Payment (LSE:PPT) Business Description

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Planet Payment Inc is a provider of international payment and transaction processing and multi-currency processing services. It organizes its business operations through two segments: Multi Currency Processing Services and Payment Processing Services. Its service portfolio consists of payment processing, multi-currency processing, gateway, data analytics, and commercial transaction services. The company provides its services across the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. It generates the majority of its revenue from Multi Currency Processing Services segment.