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Walmart (UKEX:WMT) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 26.50 (As of May. 31, 2024)


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What is Walmart Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-05-31), Walmart's current share price is ₴1719.66667. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Apr. 2024 was ₴64.90. Walmart's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 26.50.

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

UKEX:WMT' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 16.54   Med: 23.1   Max: 32.93
Current: 28.92

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.

UKEX:WMT's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
78.74% of 127 companies
in the Retail - Defensive industry
Industry Median: 15.36 vs UKEX:WMT: 28.92

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 ₴-2.137. 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 ₴64.90 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
=1719.66667/64.9
=26.50

* 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)
=-2.137/131.7762*131.7762
=-2.137

Current CPI (Apr. 2024) = 131.7762.

Walmart Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201407 12.504 100.520 16.392
201410 1.831 100.176 2.409
201501 38.103 98.604 50.922
201504 9.327 99.824 12.312
201507 11.749 100.691 15.376
201510 7.222 100.346 9.484
201601 39.471 99.957 52.036
201604 17.034 100.947 22.236
201607 27.360 101.524 35.513
201610 8.744 101.988 11.298
201701 38.282 102.456 49.237
201704 15.026 103.167 19.193
201707 15.811 103.278 20.174
201710 14.471 104.070 18.324
201801 36.846 104.578 46.429
201804 15.195 105.708 18.942
201807 15.884 106.324 19.686
201810 15.962 106.695 19.714
201901 32.950 106.200 40.885
201904 6.346 107.818 7.756
201907 23.295 108.250 28.358
201910 2.168 108.577 2.631
202001 36.717 108.841 44.454
202004 24.922 108.173 30.360
202007 47.929 109.318 57.776
202010 4.994 109.861 5.990
202101 44.468 110.364 53.095
202104 3.070 112.673 3.591
202107 32.419 115.183 37.089
202110 1.442 116.696 1.628
202201 16.351 118.619 18.165
202204 -35.589 121.978 -38.448
202207 44.436 125.002 46.844
202210 9.397 125.734 9.849
202301 41.583 126.223 43.412
202304 1.017 127.992 1.047
202307 43.809 128.974 44.761
202310 -23.174 129.810 -23.525
202401 53.809 130.124 54.492
202404 -2.137 131.776 -2.137

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  (UKEX: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 (UKEX: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.