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Spirent Communications (Spirent Communications) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 18.67 (As of Jun. 08, 2024)


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

As of today (2024-06-08), Spirent Communications's current share price is $2.24. Spirent Communications's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec23 was $0.12. Spirent Communications's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 18.67.

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

SPNUF' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 10.19   Med: 22.53   Max: 43.43
Current: 20.65

During the past 13 years, Spirent Communications's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 43.43. The lowest was 10.19. And the median was 22.53.

SPNUF's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked better than
62.81% of 683 companies
in the Software industry
Industry Median: 28.4 vs SPNUF: 20.65

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.

Spirent Communications's adjusted free cash flow per share data of for the fiscal year that ended in Dec23 was $0.043. 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 $0.12 for the trailing ten years ended in Dec23.

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Spirent Communications Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Spirent 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 38.50 37.67 36.20 29.78 13.83

Spirent Communications Semi-Annual Data
Jun14 Dec14 Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23
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 36.20 - 29.78 - 13.83

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

For the Software - Infrastructure subindustry, Spirent 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.


Spirent Communications's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Software Industry

For the Software industry and Technology sector, Spirent Communications's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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



Spirent 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=2.24/0.12
=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.

Spirent Communications's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the fiscal year that ended in Dec23 is calculated as:

For example, Spirent Communications's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the fiscal year that ended in Dec23 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Dec23 (Change)*Current CPI (Dec23)
=0.043/130.5000*130.5000
=0.043

Current CPI (Dec23) = 130.5000.

Spirent Communications Annual Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201412 0.015 99.900 0.020
201512 0.055 100.400 0.071
201612 0.039 102.200 0.050
201712 0.088 105.000 0.109
201812 0.078 107.100 0.095
201912 0.172 108.500 0.207
202012 0.181 109.400 0.216
202112 0.151 114.700 0.172
202212 0.179 125.300 0.186
202312 0.043 130.500 0.043

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.


Spirent Communications  (OTCPK:SPNUF) 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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Spirent Communications (Spirent Communications) Business Description

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Address
108 High Street, Origin One, Crawley, West Sussex, GBR, RH10 1BD
Spirent Communications PLC provides communications technologies including networks, data centers, enterprise IT, mobile communications, connected vehicles or the Internet of Things. The company operates in Networks and Security and Lifecycle Service Assurance segments. The majority of the revenue is derived from the Networks and Security segment that comprises Cloud IP, Application Security and Positioning lines of business with the aim of addressing the needs of the lab test market for Ethernet, Virtual, Data Center, applications test and timing for critical infrastructure.