diff --git a/app/serializers/analytics_stage_entity.rb b/app/serializers/analytics_stage_entity.rb
index 64eba185a4e..8bc6da5aeeb 100644
--- a/app/serializers/analytics_stage_entity.rb
+++ b/app/serializers/analytics_stage_entity.rb
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ class AnalyticsStageEntity < Grape::Entity
   expose :median, as: :value do |stage|
     # median returns a BatchLoader instance which we first have to unwrap by using to_f
     # we use to_f to make sure results below 1 are presented to the end-user
-    !stage.median.to_f.zero? ? distance_of_time_in_words(stage.median) : nil
+    stage.median.to_f.nonzero? ? distance_of_time_in_words(stage.median) : nil
   end
 end
diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/30138-display-cycle-analytics-issue.yml b/changelogs/unreleased/30138-display-cycle-analytics-issue.yml
index 21477285323..c7faa0480bd 100644
--- a/changelogs/unreleased/30138-display-cycle-analytics-issue.yml
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/30138-display-cycle-analytics-issue.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: Display improvements for cycle analytics - stop casting to integers
+title: Show data on Cycle Analytics page when value is less than a second
 merge_request: 28507
 author:
 type: fixed
diff --git a/spec/serializers/analytics_stage_serializer_spec.rb b/spec/serializers/analytics_stage_serializer_spec.rb
index 907d1b35e74..5b05c2f2ef3 100644
--- a/spec/serializers/analytics_stage_serializer_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/serializers/analytics_stage_serializer_spec.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ describe AnalyticsStageSerializer do
       allow_any_instance_of(Gitlab::CycleAnalytics::BaseStage).to receive(:median).and_return(0)
     end
 
-    it 'value is nil' do
+    it 'sets the value to nil' do
       expect(subject.fetch(:value)).to be_nil
     end
   end
@@ -37,18 +37,18 @@ describe AnalyticsStageSerializer do
       allow_any_instance_of(Gitlab::CycleAnalytics::BaseStage).to receive(:median).and_return(0.12)
     end
 
-    it 'value is equal to median' do
+    it 'sets the value to equal to median' do
       expect(subject.fetch(:value)).to eq('less than a minute')
     end
   end
 
   context 'when median is above 1' do
     before do
-      allow_any_instance_of(Gitlab::CycleAnalytics::BaseStage).to receive(:median).and_return(1.12)
+      allow_any_instance_of(Gitlab::CycleAnalytics::BaseStage).to receive(:median).and_return(60.12)
     end
 
-    it 'value is equal to median' do
-      expect(subject.fetch(:value)).to eq('less than a minute')
+    it 'sets the value to equal to median' do
+      expect(subject.fetch(:value)).to eq('1 minute')
     end
   end
 end