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Potbelly (FRA:PTB) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of Jun. 06, 2024)


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What is Potbelly Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

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Potbelly Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

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Potbelly Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

Potbelly Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
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Potbelly Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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Competitive Comparison of Potbelly's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Restaurants subindustry, Potbelly'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.


Potbelly's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

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

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



Potbelly 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.

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

For example, Potbelly'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)
=-0.102/131.7762*131.7762
=-0.102

Current CPI (Mar. 2024) = 131.7762.

Potbelly Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201406 -0.038 100.560 -0.050
201409 0.113 100.428 0.148
201412 -0.148 99.070 -0.197
201503 0.062 99.621 0.082
201506 -0.028 100.684 -0.037
201509 0.061 100.392 0.080
201512 0.054 99.792 0.071
201603 0.177 100.470 0.232
201606 0.225 101.688 0.292
201609 0.059 101.861 0.076
201612 -0.162 101.863 -0.210
201703 0.197 102.862 0.252
201706 -0.202 103.349 -0.258
201709 0.169 104.136 0.214
201712 0.077 104.011 0.098
201803 0.056 105.290 0.070
201806 0.152 106.317 0.188
201809 -0.011 106.507 -0.014
201812 0.131 105.998 0.163
201903 -0.181 107.251 -0.222
201906 0.248 108.070 0.302
201909 -0.055 108.329 -0.067
201912 0.132 108.420 0.160
202003 -0.485 108.902 -0.587
202006 0.016 108.767 0.019
202009 -0.148 109.815 -0.178
202012 -0.206 109.897 -0.247
202103 -0.356 111.754 -0.420
202106 0.066 114.631 0.076
202109 -0.177 115.734 -0.202
202112 0.024 117.630 0.027
202203 -0.292 121.301 -0.317
202206 0.259 125.017 0.273
202209 -0.097 125.227 -0.102
202212 0.255 125.222 0.268
202303 -0.128 127.348 -0.132
202306 0.267 128.729 0.273
202309 -0.078 129.860 -0.079
202312 0.006 129.419 0.006
202403 -0.102 131.776 -0.102

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.


Potbelly  (FRA:PTB) 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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Potbelly (FRA:PTB) Business Description

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Address
111 North Canal Street, Suite 325, Chicago, IL, USA, 60606
Potbelly Corp owns and franchises hundreds of limited-service restaurants specializing in sandwiches and salads, shakes. The menu includes toasty sandwiches, signature salads, soups, chili, sides, desserts, and, in breakfast locations it serves breakfast sandwiches and steel-cut oatmeal. Most of its locations are company-owned and located in the United States, with Illinois and Texas housing far more locations than any other state. The company has franchise partners in a number of countries. Excluding the United States, most of Potbelly's franchises are in the Middle East.

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