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Ciena (MEX:CIEN) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 27.68 (As of Jun. 23, 2024)


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What is Ciena Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-06-23), Ciena's current share price is MXN880.00. Ciena's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2024 was MXN31.79. Ciena's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 27.68.

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

MEX:CIEN' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 27.23   Med: 47.01   Max: 3996
Current: 29.04

During the past years, Ciena's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 3996.00. The lowest was 27.23. And the median was 47.01.

MEX:CIEN's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked better than
51.29% of 967 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 30.41 vs MEX:CIEN: 29.04

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.

Ciena's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Apr. 2024 was MXN4.895. 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 MXN31.79 for the trailing ten years ended in Apr. 2024.

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Ciena Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Ciena Annual Data
Trend Oct14 Oct15 Oct16 Oct17 Oct18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 146.84 44.76 38.20 37.41 31.01

Ciena Quarterly Data
Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24
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 36.33 34.43 31.01 33.08 27.71

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

For the Communication Equipment subindustry, Ciena'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.


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

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

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



Ciena 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=880.00/31.79
=27.68

* 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.

Ciena's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2024 is calculated as:

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

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Apr. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Apr. 2024)
=4.895/132.2892*132.2892
=4.895

Current CPI (Apr. 2024) = 132.2892.

Ciena Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201407 4.563 100.520 6.005
201410 7.769 100.176 10.260
201501 1.524 98.604 2.045
201504 3.257 99.824 4.316
201507 12.020 100.691 15.792
201510 7.524 100.346 9.919
201601 -1.851 99.957 -2.450
201604 4.521 100.947 5.925
201607 5.430 101.524 7.076
201610 11.202 101.988 14.530
201701 -7.614 102.456 -9.831
201704 4.282 103.167 5.491
201707 3.624 103.278 4.642
201710 12.310 104.070 15.648
201801 1.299 104.578 1.643
201804 3.951 105.708 4.945
201807 8.098 106.324 10.076
201810 7.162 106.695 8.880
201901 -3.547 106.200 -4.418
201904 10.101 107.818 12.394
201907 8.364 108.250 10.221
201910 27.732 108.577 33.788
202001 1.570 108.841 1.908
202004 11.210 108.173 13.709
202007 22.686 109.318 27.453
202010 22.548 109.861 27.151
202101 -3.646 110.364 -4.370
202104 24.967 112.673 29.314
202107 6.769 115.183 7.774
202110 31.811 116.696 36.062
202201 -10.625 118.619 -11.849
202204 11.565 121.978 12.543
202207 -30.728 125.002 -32.519
202210 -5.112 125.734 -5.378
202301 -37.164 126.223 -38.950
202304 24.176 127.992 24.988
202307 -1.862 128.974 -1.910
202310 21.077 129.810 21.480
202401 29.380 130.124 29.869
202404 4.895 132.289 4.895

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.


Ciena  (MEX:CIEN) 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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Ciena (MEX:CIEN) Business Description

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Ciena Corp is a network and technology company. It provides network hardware, software, and services that support the transport, switching, aggregation, service delivery, and management of video, data, and voice traffic on communications networks. It serves various industries such as communication services providers, web-scale providers, cable operators, government, and large enterprises world-wide. The business activities function through Networking Platforms; Platform Software and Services; Blue Planet Automation Software, and Global Services segments. Geographically, its presence is seen in the markets of the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and India. The maximum revenue is generated from Americas.