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Adobe (LTS:0R2Y) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 47.72 (As of May. 17, 2024)


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What is Adobe Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-05-17), Adobe's current share price is $482.00. Adobe's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Feb. 2024 was $10.10. Adobe's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 47.72.

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

LTS:0R2Y' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 21   Med: 54.36   Max: 115.28
Current: 47.8

During the past years, Adobe's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 115.28. The lowest was 21.00. And the median was 54.36.

LTS:0R2Y's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
65.44% of 677 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 28.97 vs LTS:0R2Y: 47.80

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.

Adobe's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Feb. 2024 was $2.493. 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 $10.10 for the trailing ten years ended in Feb. 2024.

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Adobe Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Adobe Annual Data
Trend Nov14 Nov15 Nov16 Nov17 Nov18 Nov19 Nov20 Nov21 Nov22 Nov23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 75.30 94.85 102.62 41.70 62.31

Adobe Quarterly Data
May19 Aug19 Nov19 Feb20 May20 Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24
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 37.50 45.87 58.63 62.31 55.46

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

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Adobe'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.


Adobe's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Adobe's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Adobe 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=482.00/10.1
=47.72

* 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.

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

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

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Feb. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Feb. 2024)
=2.493/130.9299*130.9299
=2.493

Current CPI (Feb. 2024) = 130.9299.

Adobe Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201405 0.672 100.373 0.877
201408 0.421 100.352 0.549
201411 0.714 99.635 0.938
201502 0.291 99.032 0.385
201505 0.862 100.333 1.125
201508 0.616 100.548 0.802
201511 0.768 100.135 1.004
201602 0.893 100.040 1.169
201605 0.862 101.355 1.114
201608 0.919 101.617 1.184
201611 1.289 101.829 1.657
201702 1.397 102.779 1.780
201705 1.178 103.256 1.494
201708 1.299 103.587 1.642
201711 1.587 104.072 1.997
201802 1.791 105.052 2.232
201805 1.869 106.148 2.305
201808 1.795 106.383 2.209
201811 2.105 106.338 2.592
201902 1.919 106.649 2.356
201905 1.959 108.048 2.374
201908 1.697 108.245 2.053
201911 2.614 108.519 3.154
202002 2.523 109.139 3.027
202005 2.243 108.175 2.715
202008 2.701 109.662 3.225
202011 3.483 109.793 4.154
202102 3.547 110.968 4.185
202105 3.936 113.576 4.537
202108 2.721 115.421 3.087
202111 4.089 117.269 4.565
202202 3.514 119.703 3.844
202205 4.047 123.323 4.297
202208 3.367 124.958 3.528
202211 4.784 125.607 4.987
202302 3.461 126.928 3.570
202305 4.397 128.314 4.487
202308 3.882 129.538 3.924
202311 3.377 129.548 3.413
202402 2.493 130.930 2.493

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.


Adobe  (LTS:0R2Y) 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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