Discounted Cash Flow Robert Karpinski
What is it? A Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) is generally considered the best tool to value a company
First… We estimate the future free cash flows of a company.
Free Cash Flow (We have to estimate these values!)
What it might look like…
But… As we learned money is not comparable at different points in time, it has to be “Discounted”
The Methods The Weight Adjusted Cost of Capital (WACC) Or... The Adjusted Present Value (APV)
So… Right now we’ll just worry about WACC
Capital Asset Pricing Model(CAPM) r e : interest/Opportunity cost of equity
WACC r e : interest/cost of equity (from CAPM) r d : interest/cost of debt
Terminal FCF Choose a terminal Growth Rate based off similar companies in late stage/cycle
Putting it all together NPV: Net present Value
But wait… To apply this to equities.