For the terminal value, you have to pick your terminal growth rate. You can't have your year ten growth rate in the last year of your model, 50 percent and then all of a sudden, year eleven, it's two percent. It doesn't work. So we calculated the free cash flow that we calculated fools, which we just said was no path in this model, minus reinvestment. That's free cash flow available to debt and equity holders. Subtract debt. Any cash that is left over after we pay back our debt now belongs to the equity holders. So we have this present value of the terminal value,. We subtract debt and we add cash. Now we have equity
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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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