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Albemarle (MIC:ALB-RM) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of Jul. 05, 2025)


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What is Albemarle 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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Albemarle Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

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Albemarle Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Albemarle Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
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Albemarle Quarterly Data
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Competitive Comparison of Albemarle's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Albemarle'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.


Albemarle's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Albemarle's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Albemarle 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.

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

For example, Albemarle'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)
=254.849/134.9266*134.9266
=254.849

Current CPI (Mar. 2025) = 134.9266.

Albemarle Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201506 16.017 100.684 21.464
201509 76.413 100.392 102.699
201512 -12.469 99.792 -16.859
201603 68.771 100.470 92.356
201606 21.851 101.688 28.993
201609 88.671 101.861 117.455
201612 120.115 101.863 159.103
201703 14.055 102.862 18.436
201706 -95.758 103.349 -125.016
201709 20.444 104.136 26.489
201712 50.793 104.011 65.890
201803 -5.252 105.290 -6.730
201806 -26.589 106.317 -33.744
201809 -22.780 106.507 -28.859
201812 -38.392 105.998 -48.870
201903 -98.390 107.251 -123.780
201906 -32.694 108.070 -40.819
201909 -27.572 108.329 -34.342
201912 76.010 108.420 94.593
202003 -44.442 108.902 -55.063
202006 -99.571 108.767 -123.519
202009 37.990 109.815 46.677
202012 75.065 109.897 92.162
202103 -14.557 111.754 -17.575
202106 6.680 114.631 7.863
202109 -94.392 115.734 -110.045
202112 -280.894 117.630 -322.199
202203 -22.771 121.301 -25.329
202206 -223.022 125.017 -240.700
202209 297.709 125.227 320.770
202212 262.878 125.222 283.251
202303 194.980 127.348 206.584
202306 -296.315 128.729 -310.582
202309 67.912 129.860 70.562
202312 -599.862 129.419 -625.388
202403 -375.013 131.776 -383.979
202406 -65.166 132.554 -66.333
202409 -48.251 133.029 -48.939
202412 -325.006 133.157 -329.325
202503 254.849 134.927 254.849

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.


Albemarle  (MIC:ALB-RM) 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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Albemarle Business Description

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4250 Congress Street, Suite 900, Charlotte, NC, USA, 28209
Albemarle is one of the world's largest lithium producers. In the lithium industry, the majority of demand comes from batteries, where lithium is used as the energy storage material, particularly in electric vehicles. Albemarle is a fully integrated lithium producer. Its upstream resources include salt brine deposits in Chile and the US and two hard rock mines in Australia, both of which are joint ventures. The company operates lithium refining plants in Chile, the US, Australia, and China. Albemarle is a global leader in the production of bromine, used in flame retardants. It is also a major producer of oil refining catalysts.

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