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BCPC (Balchem) Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF : 42.66 (As of Jul. 10, 2025)


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What is Balchem Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF?

As of today (2025-07-10), Balchem's current share price is $162.53. Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was $3.81. Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF for today is 42.66.

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

BCPC' s Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 33.75   Med: 45.04   Max: 60.76
Current: 42.61

During the past years, Balchem's highest Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF was 60.76. The lowest was 33.75. And the median was 45.04.

BCPC's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF is ranked worse than
66.9% of 565 companies
in the Chemicals industry
Industry Median: 23.87 vs BCPC: 42.61

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.

Balchem's adjusted free cash flow per share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was $0.942. 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 $3.81 for the trailing ten years ended in Mar. 2025.

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Balchem Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Historical Data

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

Balchem Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 46.75 58.78 38.67 42.34 43.39

Balchem Quarterly Data
Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24 Jun24 Sep24 Dec24 Mar25
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 42.80 41.67 46.87 43.39 43.52

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

For the Specialty Chemicals subindustry, Balchem'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.


Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF Distribution in the Chemicals Industry

For the Chemicals industry and Basic Materials sector, Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

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


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Balchem 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.

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

Cyclically Adjusted Price-to-FCF=Share Price/ Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share
=162.53/3.81
=42.66

* 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.

Balchem's Cyclically Adjusted FCF per Share for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 is calculated as:

For example, Balchem's adjusted Free Cash Flow per Share data for the three months ended in Mar. 2025 was:

Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare=Free Cash Flow per Share/CPI of Mar. 2025 (Change)*Current CPI (Mar. 2025)
=0.942/134.9266*134.9266
=0.942

Current CPI (Mar. 2025) = 134.9266.

Balchem Quarterly Data

Free Cash Flow per Share CPI Adj_FreeCashFlowPerShare
201506 0.446 100.684 0.598
201509 0.507 100.392 0.681
201512 0.361 99.792 0.488
201603 0.582 100.470 0.782
201606 0.694 101.688 0.921
201609 0.613 101.861 0.812
201612 0.729 101.863 0.966
201703 0.613 102.862 0.804
201706 0.460 103.349 0.601
201709 0.832 104.136 1.078
201712 0.654 104.011 0.848
201803 0.669 105.290 0.857
201806 0.526 106.317 0.668
201809 0.823 106.507 1.043
201812 1.033 105.998 1.315
201903 0.430 107.251 0.541
201906 0.618 108.070 0.772
201909 1.101 108.329 1.371
201912 0.807 108.420 1.004
202003 0.528 108.902 0.654
202006 1.132 108.767 1.404
202009 0.863 109.815 1.060
202012 1.067 109.897 1.310
202103 1.050 111.754 1.268
202106 0.868 114.631 1.022
202109 0.950 115.734 1.108
202112 0.902 117.630 1.035
202203 -0.100 121.301 -0.111
202206 1.167 125.017 1.260
202209 0.823 125.227 0.887
202212 0.849 125.222 0.915
202303 0.777 127.348 0.823
202306 0.826 128.729 0.866
202309 1.177 129.860 1.223
202312 1.715 129.419 1.788
202403 0.812 131.776 0.831
202406 1.167 132.554 1.188
202409 1.286 133.029 1.304
202412 1.207 133.157 1.223
202503 0.942 134.927 0.942

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.


Balchem  (NAS:BCPC) 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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Balchem Business Description

Industry
Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5 Paragon Drive, Montvale, NJ, USA, 07645
Balchem Corp is engaged in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for various industries. The company's reportable segments are; Human Nutrition and Health, which generates maximum revenue, and provides human-grade choline nutrients and mineral amino acid chelated products through this segment for nutrition and health applications; Animal Nutrition and Health, which provides nutritional products derived from its microencapsulation and chelation technologies in addition to the essential nutrient choline chloride; and the Specialty Products segment includes re-packaging and distributing several performance gases and chemicals. Geographically, the company derives its key revenue from the United States and the rest from foreign countries.
Executives
Van Gunsteren Job Leonard officer: Vice President 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
William A. Backus officer: Chief Accounting Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Michael Robert Sestrick officer: Chief Technology Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
David B Fischer director 425 WINTER ROAD, DELAWARE OH 43015
Michael Bent Tignor officer: Chief Human Resources Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Matthew David Wineinger director 3605 GRAND VIEW COURT, ST CHARLES IL 60175
Theodore L Harris director, officer: President and CEO 5200 BLAZER PARKWAY, DUBLIN OH 43017
Olivier Rigaud director CORBION NV, PIET HEINKADE 127, AMSTERDAM P7 1019 GM
Monica Vicente director C/O FRESH DEL MONTE PRODUCE INC., P.O. BOX 149222, CORAL GABLES FL 33114
Frederic Boned officer: SVP/GM, Human Nutri. & Health 5 PARAGON DRIVE, MONTVALE NJ 07645
Hatsuki Miyata officer: General Counsel and Secretary 5 PARAGON DRIVE, MONTVALE NJ 07645
Jonathan Harrison Griffin officer: Vice President 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Martin Luther Reid officer: Chief Supply Chain Officer 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958
Kathleen B Fish director ONE PROCTER & GAMBLE PLAZA, CINCINNATI OH 45202
James C Hyde officer: Sr. Vice President 52 SUNRISE PARK ROAD, NEW HAMPTON NY 10958