We defined free cash flow as the amount of excess cash flow left over after a company has reinvested to maintain and grow its business. So from no-pat, we have to subtract total reinvestment that we think the company is going to make in year one, year two, year three, all the way through your ten. And now you just need to discount the free cash flow in every year, year one to year ten, by your discount rate. These are estimated free cash flows and you're one to your ten. Now we just use a perpetuity formula to calculate the free cash flows you think the company will generate from year eleven until the end of time,. using a perpetuity
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Motley Fool Senior Analyst John Rotonti discusses how investors can value a company using the discounted cash flow model. This method is the fundamental way to determine if you’re getting a bargain or paying too much when you buy any stock.
Rotonti discusses: - How to pick a discount rate for investments. - The key difference between fair and intrinsic value. - How to project free cash flows.
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Additional resource: https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/01/19/expectations-investing-qanda-mauboussin-rappaport/
Stocks discussed: IBM, NEE, PEP
Host: John Rotonti Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Rick Engdahl
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