Family Dollar Stores (FRA:FAY) Shiller PE Ratio : (As of May. 15, 2024)

Family Dollar Stores Shiller PE Ratio Chart

Family Dollar Stores Annual Data
	Trend	Aug05	Aug06	Aug07	Aug08	Aug09	Aug10	Aug11	Aug12	Aug13	Aug14
Shiller PE Ratio		Get a 7-Day Free Trial					24.74	27.07	28.80	28.96	31.42

Family Dollar Stores Quarterly Data
	Aug10	Nov10	Feb11	May11	Aug11	Nov11	Feb12	May12	Aug12	Nov12	Feb13	May13	Aug13	Nov13	Feb14	May14	Aug14	Nov14	Feb15	May15
Shiller PE Ratio	Get a 7-Day Free Trial															23.02	31.42	31.15	31.24	-

Competitive Comparison of Family Dollar Stores's Shiller PE Ratio

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Family Dollar Stores's Shiller PE Ratio, along with its competitors' market caps and Shiller PE Ratio 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.

Family Dollar Stores's Shiller PE Ratio Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

For the Retail - Defensive industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Family Dollar Stores's Shiller PE Ratio distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Family Dollar Stores's Shiller PE Ratio falls into.

Family Dollar Stores Shiller PE Ratio Calculation

For Shiller PE Ratio, the earnings of the past 10 years are inflation-adjusted and averaged. The result is used for P/E calculation. Since it looks at the average over the last 10 years, the Shiller PE Ratio is also called PE10.

The Shiller PE Ratio was first used by professor Robert Shiller to measure the valuation of the overall market. The same calculation is applied here to individual companies.

Family Dollar Stores's E10 for the quarter that ended in May. 2015 is calculated as:

For example, Family Dollar Stores's adjusted earnings per share data for the three months ended in May. 2015 was:

Current CPI (May. 2015) = 100.3325.

Family Dollar Stores Quarterly Data

Add all the adjusted EPS together and divide 10 will get our E10.

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.

Family Dollar Stores  (FRA:FAY) Shiller PE Ratio Explanation

Compared with the regular PE Ratio, which works poorly for cyclical businesses, the Shiller PE Ratio smoothed out the fluctuations of profit margins during business cycles. Therefore it is more accurate in reflecting the valuation of the company.

If a company has consistent business performance, the Shiller PE Ratio should give similar results to regular PE Ratio.

Compared with the PS Ratio, the Shiller PE Ratio makes the comparison between different industries more meaningful.

Be Aware

Shiller PE Ratio assumes that over the long term, businesses and profitability revert to their means. If a company's business model does not work in the future compared with the past, Shiller PE Ratio and PS Ratio will give false valuations.

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