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Ribbon Communications (FRA:NU42) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 18.67 (As of May. 28, 2024)


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What is Ribbon Communications Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-05-28), Ribbon Communications's current share price is €2.80. Ribbon Communications's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2024 was €0.15. Ribbon Communications's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 18.67.

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

FRA:NU42' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 10.12   Med: 84.04   Max: 1030
Current: 18.96

During the past years, Ribbon Communications's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 1030.00. The lowest was 10.12. And the median was 84.04.

FRA:NU42's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
67.2% of 189 companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 13.06 vs FRA:NU42: 18.96

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.

Ribbon Communications's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2024 was €0.056. 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 €0.15 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2024.

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Ribbon Communications Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Ribbon Communications Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 67.53 64.86 39.95 11.19 14.57

Ribbon Communications Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
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 13.87 14.01 13.93 14.57 19.51

Competitive Comparison of Ribbon Communications's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Ribbon Communications'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.


Ribbon Communications's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Telecommunication Services Industry

For the Telecommunication Services industry and Communication Services sector, Ribbon Communications's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Ribbon Communications 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=2.80/0.15
=18.67

* 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.

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

For example, Ribbon Communications'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)
=0.056/131.7762*131.7762
=0.056

Current CPI (Mar. 2024) = 131.7762.

Ribbon Communications Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201406 -0.059 100.560 -0.077
201409 0.098 100.428 0.129
201412 0.005 99.070 0.007
201503 -0.374 99.621 -0.495
201506 0.022 100.684 0.029
201509 0.253 100.392 0.332
201512 0.310 99.792 0.409
201603 0.043 100.470 0.056
201606 0.076 101.688 0.098
201609 -0.003 101.861 -0.004
201612 0.157 101.863 0.203
201703 0.050 102.862 0.064
201706 -0.042 103.349 -0.054
201709 0.093 104.136 0.118
201712 -0.017 104.011 -0.022
201803 0.012 105.290 0.015
201806 -0.232 106.317 -0.288
201809 -0.027 106.507 -0.033
201812 0.099 105.998 0.123
201903 0.129 107.251 0.158
201906 0.057 108.070 0.070
201909 -0.073 108.329 -0.089
201912 0.251 108.420 0.305
202003 0.254 108.902 0.307
202006 -0.074 108.767 -0.090
202009 0.138 109.815 0.166
202012 0.138 109.897 0.165
202103 -0.067 111.754 -0.079
202106 0.049 114.631 0.056
202109 -0.022 115.734 -0.025
202112 0.050 117.630 0.056
202203 0.070 121.301 0.076
202206 -0.267 125.017 -0.281
202209 -0.156 125.227 -0.164
202212 0.087 125.222 0.092
202303 0.048 127.348 0.050
202306 -0.023 128.729 -0.024
202309 -0.077 129.860 -0.078
202312 0.092 129.419 0.094
202403 0.056 131.776 0.056

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.


Ribbon Communications  (FRA:NU42) 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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Ribbon Communications (FRA:NU42) Business Description

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Address
6500 Chase Oaks Boulevard, Suite 100, Plano, TX, USA, 75023
Ribbon Communications Inc provides network solutions primarily to telecommunications, wireless and cable service providers worldwide. It enables service providers and enterprises to modernize their communications networks and provide secure real-time communications solutions to their customers and employees. Its solutions enable its customers with a secure way to connect and leverage multivendor, multiprotocol communications systems and applications across their networks and the cloud, around the world and in a rapidly changing ecosystem of IP-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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