Common Stock Valuation
CHAPTER 9 Common Stock Valuation
Timothy R. Mayes, Ph.D. Metropolitan State University of Denver
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What Is Value?
The term “value” has many different meanings depending on the context in which it is used
For our purposes, there are four important types of value:
Most generally, value can be defined as the amount that a willing and able buyer agrees to pay for an asset to a willing and able seller
Book value is the original purchase price of an asset less its accumulated depreciation
Intrinsic value is the value of an asset to a particular investor as determined by calculating the present value of the expected future cash flows at that investor’s required rate of return
Market value is the price of an asset as determined in a competitive marketplace
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Fundamentals of Valuation
As noted earlier, the intrinsic value of an asset is the present value of the expected future cash flows provided by the asset
To determine the value of a security, then, we must first determine three things:
What are the expected future cash flows?
When will the cash flows occur?
What is the required rate of return for this particular stream of cash flows?
The value of the asset can be compared to its market price to determine whether the asset should be purchased, or not
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Determining the Required Rate of Return
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Valuing Common Stocks
There are many possible formulas that can be used to value common stocks, but most of them are simply present value models
The difference between them is in the pattern of future cash flows that they assume, or the particular cash flow that they use (e.g., dividends or free cash flow)
We will look at several discounted cash flow models:
The Constant-Growth Dividend Discount Model
The Two-Stage Growth Model
Three-Stage Growth Models
The Earnings Model
The Free Cash Flow Model
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The Constant-Growth Dividend Discount Model
Note that since the growth rate is constant, if we know the most recent dividend then we know all future dividends
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The Two-Stage Growth Model
Many companies can’t be expected to grow at a constant rate forever
Some of these may be currently growing at a unsustainably high rate now, but can be expected at some point to see their growth slow to a long-run constant rate
The two-stage dividend discount model allows for these two stages of growth:
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Three-Stage Growth Models
There are several models that allow for three stages of dividend growth:
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Alternative Discounted Cash Flow Models
The Free Cash Flow Model discounts the expected future free cash flows to get the value of the firm, and then subtracts the value of debt and preferred equity to arrive at the market value of equity (here we are assuming a constant growth rate):
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Earnings Model Example
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Relative Value Models
Relative value models provide a way to value a stock relative to other similar stocks using valuation ratios such as the Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio
These models have two major advantages:
They are easy to use
They can be used to value stocks for which the DCF models fail
The most common relative value model is based on the P/E ratio
The idea is to identify a “justified” P/E ratio and to multiply that by expected earnings per share
If earnings are negative, we could use the price to book or price to sales ratios
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Preferred Stock Valuation
Preferred stock is a kind of hybrid security
It represents an ownership claim on the firm’s assets, like common stock
Holders of preferred stock do not benefit from increases in the firm’s earnings and they generally cannot vote in corporate elections, like bonds
Further, like a bond, preferred stock generally pays a fixed dividend payment each period
There is no maturity date, so the life of a share is effectively infinite
Since preferred stock is expected to pay a constant dividend forever, we can simply find the present value of an infinite stream of constant cash flows:
Which is refreshingly simple given some of the previous formulas
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Excel Formulas
FAME_TwoStageValue
FAME_ThreeStepValue
FAME_ThreeStageValue
FAME_HModelValue
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