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Lowe's (WBO:LOWE) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 27.84 (As of May. 14, 2024)


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What is Lowe's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-05-14), Lowe's's current share price is €216.60. Lowe's's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Jan. 2024 was €7.78. Lowe's's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 27.84.

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

WBO:LOWE' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 17.24   Med: 31.39   Max: 46.44
Current: 27.98

During the past years, Lowe's's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 46.44. The lowest was 17.24. And the median was 31.39.

WBO:LOWE's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
75.69% of 436 companies
in the Retail - Cyclical industry
Industry Median: 13.01 vs WBO:LOWE: 27.98

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.

Lowe's's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Jan. 2024 was €0.779. 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 €7.78 for the trailing ten years ended in Jan. 2024.

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Lowe's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Lowe's Annual Data
Trend Jan15 Jan16 Jan17 Jan18 Jan19 Jan20 Jan21 Jan22 Jan23 Jan24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 30.23 33.82 37.84 27.90 25.57

Lowe's Quarterly Data
Apr19 Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24
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 27.90 27.19 28.74 23.08 25.57

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

For the Home Improvement Retail subindustry, Lowe's'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.


Lowe's's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Lowe's's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Lowe's 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=216.60/7.78
=27.84

* 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.

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

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

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Jan. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Jan. 2024)
=0.779/129.4194*129.4194
=0.779

Current CPI (Jan. 2024) = 129.4194.

Lowe's Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201404 1.281 100.023 1.657
201407 1.290 100.520 1.661
201410 0.449 100.176 0.580
201501 -0.043 98.604 -0.056
201504 2.180 99.824 2.826
201507 1.313 100.691 1.688
201510 0.104 100.346 0.134
201601 -0.117 99.957 -0.151
201604 2.952 100.947 3.785
201607 1.151 101.524 1.467
201610 0.323 101.988 0.410
201701 0.001 102.456 0.001
201704 3.363 103.167 4.219
201707 1.550 103.278 1.942
201710 -0.013 104.070 -0.016
201801 -0.637 104.578 -0.788
201804 3.162 105.708 3.871
201807 2.144 106.324 2.610
201810 0.763 106.695 0.926
201901 -1.022 106.200 -1.245
201904 2.157 107.818 2.589
201907 1.285 108.250 1.536
201910 0.149 108.577 0.178
202001 -0.439 108.841 -0.522
202004 5.016 108.173 6.001
202007 7.995 109.318 9.465
202010 -0.822 109.861 -0.968
202101 -1.174 110.364 -1.377
202104 4.680 112.673 5.376
202107 2.436 115.183 2.737
202110 2.319 116.696 2.572
202201 0.436 118.619 0.476
202204 3.684 121.978 3.909
202207 4.140 125.002 4.286
202210 2.821 125.734 2.904
202301 -0.442 126.223 -0.453
202304 2.637 127.992 2.666
202307 5.373 128.974 5.392
202310 0.796 129.810 0.794
202401 0.779 129.419 0.779

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.


Lowe's  (WBO:LOWE) 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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Lowe's (WBO:LOWE) Business Description

Address
1000 Lowes Boulevard, Mooresville, NC, USA, 28117
Lowe's is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world, operating more than 1,700 stores in the United States, after the 2023 divestiture of its Canadian locations (RONA, Lowe's Canada, Réno-Dépôt, and Dick's Lumber). The firm's stores offer products and services for home decorating, maintenance, repair, and remodeling, with maintenance and repair accounting for two thirds of products sold. Lowe's targets retail do-it-yourself (around 75% of sales) and do-it-for-me customers as well as commercial and professional business clients (around 25% of sales). We estimate Lowe's captures a low-double-digit share of the domestic home improvement market, based on U.S. Census data and management's market size estimates.

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