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Avient (Avient) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 20.54 (As of May. 14, 2024)


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What is Avient Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-05-14), Avient's current share price is $45.59. Avient's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was $2.22. Avient's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 20.54.

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

AVNT' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 10.41   Med: 32.79   Max: 116.77
Current: 20.46

During the past years, Avient's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 116.77. The lowest was 10.41. And the median was 32.79.

AVNT's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked better than
55.98% of 577 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 26.07 vs AVNT: 20.46

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.

Avient's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was $-0.730. 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 $2.22 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2024.

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Avient Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Avient Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 26.19 27.39 33.03 16.46 19.14

Avient Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 18.83 19.39 16.29 19.14 19.51

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

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Avient'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.


Avient's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Avient's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Avient 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=45.59/2.22
=20.54

* 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.

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

For example, Avient'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)
=-0.73/129.4194*129.4194
=-0.730

Current CPI (Mar. 2024) = 129.4194.

Avient Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201406 1.041 100.560 1.340
201409 0.701 100.428 0.903
201412 0.488 99.070 0.637
201503 -0.809 99.621 -1.051
201506 1.043 100.684 1.341
201509 0.523 100.392 0.674
201512 0.948 99.792 1.229
201603 -0.504 100.470 -0.649
201606 0.686 101.688 0.873
201609 0.704 101.861 0.894
201612 0.820 101.863 1.042
201703 -0.474 102.862 -0.596
201706 0.592 103.349 0.741
201709 0.605 104.136 0.752
201712 0.780 104.011 0.971
201803 0.170 105.290 0.209
201806 0.787 106.317 0.958
201809 0.524 106.507 0.637
201812 0.732 105.998 0.894
201903 -0.442 107.251 -0.533
201906 1.384 108.070 1.657
201909 1.005 108.329 1.201
201912 0.884 108.420 1.055
202003 -0.276 108.902 -0.328
202006 0.856 108.767 1.019
202009 -0.268 109.815 -0.316
202012 1.400 109.897 1.649
202103 -0.140 111.754 -0.162
202106 0.421 114.631 0.475
202109 0.231 115.734 0.258
202112 0.933 117.630 1.027
202203 0.061 121.301 0.065
202206 0.729 125.017 0.755
202209 1.057 125.227 1.092
202212 1.337 125.222 1.382
202303 -0.463 127.348 -0.471
202306 -0.306 128.729 -0.308
202309 0.465 129.860 0.463
202312 1.199 129.419 1.199
202403 -0.730 129.419 -0.730

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.


Avient  (NYSE:AVNT) 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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Avient (Avient) Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
33587 Walker Road, Avon Lake, OH, USA, 44012
Avient Corp manufactures and sells a variety of chemical and plastic-based products to designers and processors of plastics. The firm operates in three segments: Specialty Engineered Materials; Distribution; and Color, Additives, & Ink. The company's product portfolio includes concentrated color and ink blends, plastic resins, and various specialized polymer materials used in industries such as food packaging, construction, transportation, cosmetics, and healthcare. The color, additives, & ink segment and the distribution segment together generate a vast majority of revenue. More than half of the total revenue is derived from the United States.
Executives
Robert M Patterson director, officer: Chairman, President & CEO 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Joel R. Rathbun officer: SVP, Mergers & Acquisitions 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Kristen Gajewski officer: SVP & CHRO 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Lisa K. Kunkle officer: SVP Gnrl Counsel & Secretary 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Neil Green director 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Ernest Nicolas director 1201 S. 2ND STREET, MILWAUKEE WI 53204
Michael A Garratt officer: SVP, Chief Commercial Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Robert Vinod Purayath officer: SVP & Chief Technology Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Jamie A. Beggs officer: SVP & Chief Financial Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Cathy Dodd officer: SVP, Chief Commercial Officer 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
J Scott Horn officer: SVP, President Distribution 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Richard H Fearon director 1239 GERBING ROAD, AMELIA ISLAND FL 32034
Midea M. John Jr. officer: SVP, Glbl Ops & Process Imprv 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Woon Keat Moh officer: SVP, President of CAI 33587 WALKER ROAD, AVON LAKE OH 44012
Patricia Verduin director ONE CONAGRA DRIVE, OMAHA NE 68102

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