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Albemarle (WBO:ALBE) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of Jun. 05, 2025)


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What is Albemarle Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

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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
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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)
=2.853/134.9266*134.9266
=2.853

Current CPI (Mar. 2025) = 134.9266.

Albemarle Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201506 0.256 100.684 0.343
201509 1.036 100.392 1.392
201512 -0.156 99.792 -0.211
201603 0.912 100.470 1.225
201606 0.305 101.688 0.405
201609 1.252 101.861 1.658
201612 1.887 101.863 2.500
201703 0.235 102.862 0.308
201706 -1.434 103.349 -1.872
201709 0.296 104.136 0.384
201712 0.746 104.011 0.968
201803 -0.074 105.290 -0.095
201806 -0.362 106.317 -0.459
201809 -0.298 106.507 -0.378
201812 -0.485 105.998 -0.617
201903 -1.341 107.251 -1.687
201906 -0.459 108.070 -0.573
201909 -0.397 108.329 -0.494
201912 1.104 108.420 1.374
202003 -0.505 108.902 -0.626
202006 -1.264 108.767 -1.568
202009 0.408 109.815 0.501
202012 0.828 109.897 1.017
202103 -0.161 111.754 -0.194
202106 0.075 114.631 0.088
202109 -1.098 115.734 -1.280
202112 -3.362 117.630 -3.856
202203 -0.197 121.301 -0.219
202206 -3.349 125.017 -3.614
202209 4.987 125.227 5.373
202212 4.055 125.222 4.369
202303 2.420 127.348 2.564
202306 -3.370 128.729 -3.532
202309 0.660 129.860 0.686
202312 -6.096 129.419 -6.355
202403 -3.771 131.776 -3.861
202406 -0.670 132.554 -0.682
202409 -0.480 133.029 -0.487
202412 -2.885 133.157 -2.923
202503 2.853 134.927 2.853

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  (WBO:ALBE) 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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