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Walmart (NEOE:WMT) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 28.91 (As of May. 20, 2024)


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What is Walmart Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-05-20), Walmart's current share price is C$28.33. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2024 was C$0.98. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 28.91.

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

NEOE:WMT' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 16.54   Med: 23.1   Max: 32.93
Current: 28.81

During the past years, Walmart's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 32.93. The lowest was 16.54. And the median was 23.10.

NEOE:WMT's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
78.57% of 126 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 15.52 vs NEOE:WMT: 28.81

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.

Walmart's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Apr. 2024 was C$-0.072. 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 C$0.98 for the trailing ten years ended in Apr. 2024.

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Walmart Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Walmart 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 22.65 24.74 22.85 22.27 24.25

Walmart Quarterly Data
Jul19 Oct19 Jan20 Apr20 Jul20 Oct20 Jan21 Apr21 Jul21 Oct21 Jan22 Apr22 Jul22 Oct22 Jan23 Apr23 Jul23 Oct23 Jan24 Apr24
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 23.29 23.76 24.55 24.25 26.45

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

For the Discount Stores subindustry, Walmart'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.


Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Retail - Defensive Industry

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

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



Walmart 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=28.33/0.98
=28.91

* 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.

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

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

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Apr. 2024 (Change)*Current CPI (Apr. 2024)
=-0.072/131.7762*131.7762
=-0.072

Current CPI (Apr. 2024) = 131.7762.

Walmart Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201407 0.332 100.520 0.435
201410 0.051 100.176 0.067
201501 1.142 98.604 1.526
201504 0.284 99.824 0.375
201507 0.374 100.691 0.489
201510 0.233 100.346 0.306
201601 1.386 99.957 1.827
201604 0.540 100.947 0.705
201607 0.883 101.524 1.146
201610 0.286 101.988 0.370
201701 1.247 102.456 1.604
201704 0.499 103.167 0.637
201707 0.496 103.278 0.633
201710 0.451 104.070 0.571
201801 1.132 104.578 1.426
201804 0.478 105.708 0.596
201807 0.516 106.324 0.640
201810 0.513 106.695 0.634
201901 1.083 106.200 1.344
201904 0.210 107.818 0.257
201907 0.755 108.250 0.919
201910 0.071 108.577 0.086
202001 1.188 108.841 1.438
202004 0.865 108.173 1.054
202007 1.599 109.318 1.928
202010 0.163 109.861 0.196
202101 1.399 110.364 1.670
202104 0.095 112.673 0.111
202107 1.004 115.183 1.149
202110 0.044 116.696 0.050
202201 0.510 118.619 0.567
202204 -1.111 121.978 -1.200
202207 1.421 125.002 1.498
202210 0.318 125.734 0.333
202301 1.380 126.223 1.441
202304 0.034 127.992 0.035
202307 1.431 128.974 1.462
202310 -0.785 129.810 -0.797
202401 1.785 130.124 1.808
202404 -0.072 131.776 -0.072

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.


Walmart  (NEOE:WMT) 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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Walmart (NEOE:WMT) Business Description

Address
702 S.W. 8th Street, Bentonville, AR, USA, 72716
Walmart serves as the preeminent retailer in the United States, with its strategy predicated on superior operating efficiency and offering the lowest priced goods to consumers to drive robust store traffic and product turnover. Walmart augmented its low-price business strategy by offering a convenient one-stop shopping destination with the opening of its first supercenter in 1988.Today, Walmart operates over 4,700 stores in the United States (5,300 including Sam's Club) and over 10,000 stores globally. Walmart generated over $420 billion in domestic namesake sales last year, with Sam's Club contributing another $84 billion to the firm's top line. Internationally, Walmart generated $100 billion in sales. The company serves around 240 million customers globally each week.

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