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Chesapeake Utilities (FRA:CH5) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : (As of May. 22, 2024)


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What is Chesapeake Utilities Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

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Chesapeake Utilities Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

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Chesapeake Utilities Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Chesapeake Utilities's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Utilities - Regulated Gas subindustry, Chesapeake Utilities'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.


Chesapeake Utilities's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Utilities - Regulated Industry

For the Utilities - Regulated industry and Utilities sector, Chesapeake Utilities's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Chesapeake Utilities 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.

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

For example, Chesapeake Utilities'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)
=0.898/131.7762*131.7762
=0.898

Current CPI (Mar. 2024) = 131.7762.

Chesapeake Utilities Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201406 -0.597 100.560 -0.782
201409 -1.050 100.428 -1.378
201412 -0.763 99.070 -1.015
201503 2.323 99.621 3.073
201506 -0.805 100.684 -1.054
201509 -1.538 100.392 -2.019
201512 -2.128 99.792 -2.810
201603 0.372 100.470 0.488
201606 -0.085 101.688 -0.110
201609 -1.661 101.861 -2.149
201612 -2.427 101.863 -3.140
201703 1.016 102.862 1.302
201706 -0.545 103.349 -0.695
201709 -2.022 104.136 -2.559
201712 -1.725 104.011 -2.185
201803 0.176 105.290 0.220
201806 -1.148 106.317 -1.423
201809 -1.302 106.507 -1.611
201812 -4.257 105.998 -5.292
201903 -0.147 107.251 -0.181
201906 -0.707 108.070 -0.862
201909 -1.077 108.329 -1.310
201912 -2.536 108.420 -3.082
202003 1.298 108.902 1.571
202006 -0.792 108.767 -0.960
202009 -0.841 109.815 -1.009
202012 0.044 109.897 0.053
202103 1.359 111.754 1.602
202106 0.056 114.631 0.064
202109 -1.204 115.734 -1.371
202112 -2.049 117.630 -2.295
202203 2.006 121.301 2.179
202206 1.034 125.017 1.090
202209 -1.175 125.227 -1.236
202212 -0.391 125.222 -0.411
202303 2.056 127.348 2.127
202306 1.007 128.729 1.031
202309 -0.685 129.860 -0.695
202312 -1.398 129.419 -1.423
202403 0.898 131.776 0.898

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.


Chesapeake Utilities  (FRA:CH5) 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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Chesapeake Utilities (FRA:CH5) Business Description

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Address
500 Energy Lane, Dover, DE, USA, 19901
Chesapeake Utilities Corp is a diversified energy delivery company that is engaged in natural gas transmission and distribution, electricity generation and distribution, propane gas distribution, mobile compressed natural gas utility services and solutions and other businesses. The company operates in two reportable segments, Regulated Energy and Unregulated Energy. The company's natural gas and electric distribution operations in Delaware, Maryland and Florida are subject to regulation by their respective PSC. Eastern Shore, its natural gas transmission subsidiary, is subject to regulation by the FERC and Peninsula Pipeline and Aspire Energy Express, its intrastate pipeline subsidiaries, are subject to regulation by the Florida PSC and Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, respectively.

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