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Heartland Express (STU:HLX) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of Jun. 13, 2024)


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What is Heartland Express Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

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Heartland Express Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

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Heartland Express Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Heartland Express's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Trucking subindustry, Heartland Express'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.


Heartland Express's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Transportation Industry

For the Transportation industry and Industrials sector, Heartland Express's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Heartland Express 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.

Heartland Express's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 is calculated as:

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

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Mar. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar. 2024)
=0.306/131.7762*131.7762
=0.306

Current CPI (Mar. 2024) = 131.7762.

Heartland Express Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201406 -0.039 100.560 -0.051
201409 0.019 100.428 0.025
201412 -0.373 99.070 -0.496
201503 0.530 99.621 0.701
201506 -0.136 100.684 -0.178
201509 -0.059 100.392 -0.077
201512 -0.627 99.792 -0.828
201603 0.571 100.470 0.749
201606 -0.187 101.688 -0.242
201609 0.157 101.861 0.203
201612 0.222 101.863 0.287
201703 0.162 102.862 0.208
201706 -0.148 103.349 -0.189
201709 -0.285 104.136 -0.361
201712 -0.476 104.011 -0.603
201803 0.002 105.290 0.003
201806 -0.181 106.317 -0.224
201809 -0.017 106.507 -0.021
201812 -0.041 105.998 -0.051
201903 0.017 107.251 0.021
201906 0.039 108.070 0.048
201909 -0.181 108.329 -0.220
201912 -0.068 108.420 -0.083
202003 -0.022 108.902 -0.027
202006 0.033 108.767 0.040
202009 -0.332 109.815 -0.398
202012 0.054 109.897 0.065
202103 0.269 111.754 0.317
202106 -0.109 114.631 -0.125
202109 -0.136 115.734 -0.155
202112 -0.131 117.630 -0.147
202203 0.179 121.301 0.194
202206 -0.091 125.017 -0.096
202209 0.164 125.227 0.173
202212 0.160 125.222 0.168
202303 0.287 127.348 0.297
202306 -0.409 128.729 -0.419
202309 -0.493 129.860 -0.500
202312 0.105 129.419 0.107
202403 0.306 131.776 0.306

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.


Heartland Express  (STU:HLX) 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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Heartland Express (STU:HLX) Business Description

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Address
901 Heartland Way, North Liberty, IA, USA, 52317
Heartland Express Inc is engaged in providing truckload services across the United States and Canada. These truckload services are primarily asset-based transportation services in the dry van truckload market, and it also offers truckload temperature-controlled transportation services. The company's major customers represent primarily the consumer goods, appliances, food products, and automotive industries.