ThomsonReuters

MAY 6, 2021

A discounted cash flow approach involves projecting a stream of cash flows for an item and then applying a discount rate to those cash flows to calculate a single value or a range of values for that item. The Codification often provides guidance on how to select a discount rate for a particular area of accounting.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 20, 2021

If, on the other hand, investors are risk neutral, the price of risk will be zero, and investors will buy risky business, stocks and other investments, and settle for the risk free rate as the expected return. Estimation Approaches Why is it so difficult to estimate an equity risk premium?

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Valutico

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 21, 2023

That said, when investors buy equities, it would be both irrational and illogical to settle for expected returns that are less than what you can earn on risk free or guaranteed investments, though behavioral finance suggests that both irrationality and illogic are persistent human traits. Stocks: The What Next?

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Andrew Stolz

MARCH 20, 2020

The formula implies the return an investor expects from a risk-free investment plus the return from the stock in relation to market volatility. The market risk premium is calculated from a market rate of return less a risk-free rate. Lower WACC can increase the present value of a firm.

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 3, 2023

If you think about a standard DCF, metrics like Unlevered Free Cash Flow and Levered Free Cash Flow are a bit “imaginary” – because no company distributes them to its investors. Interest Income and Interest Expense are based on the changing interest rates times these balances.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 30, 2023

Returns in 2022 In my first classes in finance, as a student, I was taught that the US treasury rate was a risk free rate, with the logic being that since the US treasury could always print money, it would not default. in 2022, higher than the 1- 1.5% imputed inflation of the prior decade.

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Valutico

APRIL 17, 2023

The Cost of Capital is then used to discount future expected cash flows to arrive at a present value – the valuation of the business using the Discounted Cash Flow method, a leading valuation technique. The required rate of return for equity (Re) is generally calculated using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).

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Valutico

APRIL 17, 2023

The Cost of Capital is then used to discount future expected cash flows to arrive at a present value – the valuation of the business using the Discounted Cash Flow method, a leading valuation technique. The required rate of return for equity (Re) is generally calculated using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).

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Valutico

APRIL 12, 2023

The Cost of Capital is then used to discount future expected cash flows to arrive at a present value – the valuation of the business using the Discounted Cash Flow method, a leading valuation technique. The required rate of return for equity (Re) is generally calculated using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

In short, the expected return on a risky investment can be constructed as the sum of the returns you can expect on a guaranteed investment, i.e., a riskfree rate, and a risk premium, which will scale up as risk increases. The risk premium that you demand has different names in different markets.

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Valutico

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The DCF method takes the value of the company to be equal to all future cash flows of that business, discounted to a present value by using an appropriate discount rate. A discount rate, or discount ‘factor’, is calculated and applied to each year’s cash flow, in order to arrive at the present value. . It was worth $24.8

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this section, I will begin by looking at the evolution of my Tesla value from 2013 to 2021, and then present my updated valuation of the company. My Tesla History I have valued Tesla multiple times over the last decade, and while I have been wrong at each turn, I have tried to learn from my mistakes.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

I also offer online classes in basic finance (present value, risk models and measures) and accounting (or at least my version of it) as background to my main classes. Discount rates in intrinsic valaution have to change to reflect current market conditions, and can be expected to change over time.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 19, 2022

In a post at the start of 2021 , I argued that while stocks entered the year at elevated levels, especially on historic metrics (such as PE ratios), they were priced to deliver reasonable returns, relative to very low risk free rates (with the treasury bond rate at 0.93% at the start of 2021).

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

Risk free Rates : While the US treasury bond rate is widely reported, I contrast its actual value with what I call an intrinsic measure of the rate, computed by adding the inflation rate to real growth each year at this link.

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Equidam

APRIL 22, 2025

.” De-Risking the Future: The Role of Current Traction, Team, and Milestones If valuation is about the future, what role does the present play? 4] [6] [14] [15] [16] [18] This present-day evidence serves a crucial function: it de-risks the future vision being presented to investors.

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Equidam

APRIL 22, 2025

17] Ideally, it reflects the present worth of the future cash flows the business is expected to generate, or is based on other core attributes like assets, intellectual property, and market position. [17] 8] , [9] The potential exit value is then discounted back to its present value using this required ROI as the discount rate.

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