Estimating The Intrinsic Value Of Liv ihop AB (publ) (STO:LIVI)
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Does the June share price for Liv ihop AB (publ) (STO:LIVI) reflect what it's really worth? Today, we will estimate the stock's intrinsic value by estimating the company's future cash flows and discounting them to their present value. I will use the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. It may sound complicated, but actually it is quite simple!
Companies can be valued in a lot of ways, so we would point out that a DCF is not perfect for every situation. Anyone interested in learning a bit more about intrinsic value should have a read of the Simply Wall St analysis model.
We're using the 2-stage growth model, which simply means we take in account two stages of company's growth. In the initial period the company may have a higher growth rate and the second stage is usually assumed to have a stable growth rate. In the first stage we need to estimate the cash flows to the business over the next ten years. Seeing as no analyst estimates of free cash flow are available to us, we have extrapolate the previous free cash flow (FCF) from the company's last reported value. We assume companies with shrinking free cash flow will slow their rate of shrinkage, and that companies with growing free cash flow will see their growth rate slow, over this period. We do this to reflect that growth tends to slow more in the early years than it does in later years.
A DCF is all about the idea that a dollar in the future is less valuable than a dollar today, so we need to discount the sum of these future cash flows to arrive at a present value estimate:
10-year free cash flow (FCF) forecast
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
Levered FCF (SEK, Millions)
SEK3.12
SEK2.88
SEK2.74
SEK2.64
SEK2.58
SEK2.54
SEK2.52
SEK2.51
SEK2.50
SEK2.50
Growth Rate Estimate Source
Est @ -10.93%
Est @ -7.52%
Est @ -5.13%
Est @ -3.46%
Est @ -2.29%
Est @ -1.48%
Est @ -0.9%
Est @ -0.5%
Est @ -0.22%
Est @ -0.02%
Present Value (SEK, Millions) Discounted @ 6.7%
SEK2.92
SEK2.53
SEK2.25
SEK2.04
SEK1.87
SEK1.72
SEK1.60
SEK1.49
SEK1.40
SEK1.31
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF)= SEK19.14m
"Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St
After calculating the present value of future cash flows in the intial 10-year period, we need to calculate the Terminal Value, which accounts for all future cash flows beyond the first stage. The Gordon Growth formula is used to calculate Terminal Value at a future annual growth rate equal to the 10-year government bond rate of 0.4%. We discount the terminal cash flows to today's value at a cost of equity of 6.7%.
Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV) = TV / (1 + r)10 = SEKkr40m ÷ ( 1 + 6.7%)10 = SEK20.99m
The total value, or equity value, is then the sum of the present value of the future cash flows, which in this case is SEK40.12m. The last step is to then divide the equity value by the number of shares outstanding. This results in an intrinsic value estimate of SEK4.85. Relative to the current share price of SEK5.3, the company appears around fair value at the time of writing. The assumptions in any calculation have a big impact on the valuation, so it is better to view this as a rough estimate, not precise down to the last cent.
OM:LIVI Intrinsic value, June 24th 2019
The assumptions
The calculation above is very dependent on two assumptions. The first is the discount rate and the other is the cash flows. You don't have to agree with these inputs, I recommend redoing the calculations yourself and playing with them. The DCF also does not consider the possible cyclicality of an industry, or a company's future capital requirements, so it does not give a full picture of a company's potential performance. Given that we are looking at Liv ihop as potential shareholders, the cost of equity is used as the discount rate, rather than the cost of capital (or weighted average cost of capital, WACC) which accounts for debt. In this calculation we've used 6.7%, which is based on a levered beta of 1.051. Beta is a measure of a stock's volatility, compared to the market as a whole. We get our beta from the industry average beta of globally comparable companies, with an imposed limit between 0.8 and 2.0, which is a reasonable range for a stable business.
Next Steps:
Although the valuation of a company is important, it shouldn’t be the only metric you look at when researching a company. The DCF model is not a perfect stock valuation tool. Rather it should be seen as a guide to "what assumptions need to be true for this stock to be under/overvalued?" If a company grows at a different rate, or if its cost of equity or risk free rate changes sharply, the output can look very different. For Liv ihop, There are three fundamental aspects you should look at:
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