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Adobe (NEOE:ADBE) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 34.13 (As of Jun. 06, 2025)


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What is Adobe Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-06-06), Adobe's current share price is C$16.38. Adobe's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2025 was C$0.48. Adobe's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 34.13.

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

NEOE:ADBE' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 28.59   Med: 57.54   Max: 115.28
Current: 33.94

During the past years, Adobe's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 115.28. The lowest was 28.59. And the median was 57.54.

NEOE:ADBE's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
54.34% of 703 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 30.14 vs NEOE:ADBE: 33.94

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.

Adobe's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Feb. 2025 was C$0.234. 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 C$0.48 for the trailing ten years ended in Feb. 2025.

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Adobe Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Adobe Annual Data
Trend Nov15 Nov16 Nov17 Nov18 Nov19 Nov20 Nov21 Nov22 Nov23 Nov24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 94.85 102.62 41.69 62.30 44.69

Adobe Quarterly Data
May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24 May24 Aug24 Nov24 Feb25
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 55.45 42.12 52.38 44.69 35.96

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

For the Software - Application subindustry, Adobe'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.


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

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

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


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Adobe 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=16.38/0.48
=34.13

* 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.

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

For example, Adobe's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Feb. 2025 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Feb. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Feb. 2025)
=0.234/134.6241*134.6241
=0.234

Current CPI (Feb. 2025) = 134.6241.

Adobe Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201505 0.031 100.333 0.042
201508 0.024 100.548 0.032
201511 0.030 100.135 0.040
201602 0.036 100.040 0.048
201605 0.033 101.355 0.044
201608 0.035 101.617 0.046
201611 0.051 101.829 0.067
201702 0.053 102.779 0.069
201705 0.047 103.256 0.061
201708 0.048 103.587 0.062
201711 0.059 104.072 0.076
201802 0.066 105.052 0.085
201805 0.070 106.148 0.089
201808 0.068 106.383 0.086
201811 0.081 106.338 0.103
201902 0.074 106.649 0.093
201905 0.077 108.048 0.096
201908 0.066 108.245 0.082
201911 0.101 108.519 0.125
202002 0.098 109.139 0.121
202005 0.091 108.175 0.113
202008 0.104 109.662 0.128
202011 0.133 109.793 0.163
202102 0.131 110.968 0.159
202105 0.139 113.576 0.165
202108 0.100 115.421 0.117
202111 0.150 117.269 0.172
202202 0.130 119.703 0.146
202205 0.152 123.323 0.166
202208 0.127 124.958 0.137
202211 0.189 125.607 0.203
202302 0.136 126.928 0.144
202305 0.173 128.314 0.182
202308 0.153 129.538 0.159
202311 0.135 129.548 0.140
202402 0.098 130.930 0.101
202405 0.168 132.509 0.171
202408 0.175 132.816 0.177
202411 0.265 133.110 0.268
202502 0.234 134.624 0.234

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.


Adobe  (NEOE:ADBE) 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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Adobe provides content creation, document management, and digital marketing and advertising software and services to creative professionals and marketers for creating, managing, delivering, measuring, optimizing, and engaging with compelling content multiple operating systems, devices, and media. The company operates with three segments: digital media content creation, digital experience for marketing solutions, and publishing for legacy products (less than 5% of revenue).