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Is There An Opportunity With D. B. Corp Limited's (NSE:DBCORP) 38% Undervaluation?

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Does the July share price for D. B. Corp Limited (NSE:DBCORP) reflect what it's really worth? Today, we will estimate the stock's intrinsic value by projecting its future cash flows and then discounting them to today's value. I will use the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. It may sound complicated, but actually it is quite simple!

We generally believe that a company's value is the present value of all of the cash it will generate in the future. However, a DCF is just one valuation metric among many, and it is not without flaws. If you want to learn more about discounted cash flow, the rationale behind this calculation can be read in detail in the Simply Wall St analysis model.

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The method

We are going to use a two-stage DCF model, which, as the name states, takes into account two stages of growth. The first stage is generally a higher growth period which levels off heading towards the terminal value, captured in the second 'steady growth' period. In the first stage we need to estimate the cash flows to the business over the next ten years. Where possible we use analyst estimates, but when these aren't available we extrapolate the previous free cash flow (FCF) from the last estimate or 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.

Generally we assume that a dollar today is more valuable than a dollar in the future, so we discount the value of these future cash flows to their estimated value in today's dollars:

10-year free cash flow (FCF) estimate

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

2027

2028

2029

Levered FCF (₹, Millions)

₹3.4b

₹3.6b

₹4.2b

₹4.7b

₹5.2b

₹5.7b

₹6.3b

₹6.8b

₹7.4b

₹8.0b

Growth Rate Estimate Source

Analyst x6

Analyst x7

Analyst x1

Est @ 12.77%

Est @ 11.2%

Est @ 10.11%

Est @ 9.34%

Est @ 8.8%

Est @ 8.43%

Est @ 8.16%

Present Value (₹, Millions) Discounted @ 14.81%

₹3.0k

₹2.7k

₹2.7k

₹2.7k

₹2.6k

₹2.5k

₹2.4k

₹2.3k

₹2.1k

₹2.0k

("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF)= ₹25.0b

The second stage is also known as Terminal Value, this is the business's cash flow after the first stage. For a number of reasons a very conservative growth rate is used that cannot exceed that of a country's GDP growth. In this case we have used the 10-year government bond rate (7.6%) to estimate future growth. In the same way as with the 10-year 'growth' period, we discount future cash flows to today's value, using a cost of equity of 14.8%.