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Safaricom (NAI:SCOM) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 15.96 (As of Jun. 08, 2024)


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What is Safaricom Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2024-06-08), Safaricom's current share price is KES18.35. Safaricom's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Mar24 was KES1.15. Safaricom's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 15.96.

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

NAI:SCOM' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 10.13   Med: 36.49   Max: 56.73
Current: 15.62

During the past 13 years, Safaricom's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 56.73. The lowest was 10.13. And the median was 36.49.

NAI:SCOM's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
57.89% of 190 companies
in the Telecommunication Services industry
Industry Median: 12.975 vs NAI:SCOM: 15.62

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.

Safaricom's adjusted free cash flow per share data of for the fiscal year that ended in Mar24 was KES0.257. 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 KES1.15 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar24.

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Safaricom Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Safaricom Annual Data
Trend Mar15 Mar16 Mar17 Mar18 Mar19 Mar20 Mar21 Mar22 Mar23 Mar24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 30.47 34.92 32.95 15.69 15.49

Safaricom Semi-Annual Data
Sep14 Mar15 Sep15 Mar16 Sep16 Mar17 Sep17 Mar18 Sep18 Mar19 Sep19 Mar20 Sep20 Mar21 Sep21 Mar22 Sep22 Mar23 Sep23 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 32.95 - 15.69 - 15.49

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

For the Telecom Services subindustry, Safaricom'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.


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

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

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



Safaricom 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=18.35/1.15
=15.96

* 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.

Safaricom's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Mar24 is calculated as:

For example, Safaricom's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the fiscal year that ended in Mar24 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Mar24 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar24)
=0.257/131.7762*131.7762
=0.257

Current CPI (Mar24) = 131.7762.

Safaricom Annual Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201503 0.447 99.621 0.591
201603 0.780 100.470 1.023
201703 1.040 102.862 1.332
201803 1.386 105.290 1.735
201903 1.561 107.251 1.918
202003 1.854 108.902 2.243
202103 1.636 111.754 1.929
202203 -0.665 121.301 -0.722
202303 1.112 127.348 1.151
202403 0.257 131.776 0.257

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.


Safaricom  (NAI:SCOM) 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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Safaricom (NAI:SCOM) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
Safaricom House, Waiyaki Way, P.O. Box 66827, Westlands, Nairobi, KEN, 00800
Safaricom PLC is a Kenya-based telecommunications company. The principal activities of the company are the provision of telecommunication services, providing a comprehensive range of integrated telecommunication services including voice and data both mobile and fixed, SMS, the internet, and m-pesa. The company also offers a wide range of devices such as Mobile handsets, mobile broadband modems, routers, tablets, and notebooks. The majority of its revenue comes from service revenues: Voice, m-pesa, mobile data, messaging, fixed data and other service revenue. The company serves both individual and corporate/enterprise customers.

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