DCF (Reverse)

Question 1

Rf + b(Rm-Rf)

Rf= risk free rate

b= Levered beta

Rm= expected return on the market

Answer 1

1. How do you derive Ke?

Question 2

The PV of the terminal value is the PV for far in the future earnings, and you need to incorporate near earnings as well. It is much more realistic to project FCFs within a period of 5-10 years, and much more uncertain beyond that time frame. Thus, EV needs to incorporate the PVs of near term and long term earnings.

Yes, a multiple of EBITDA to get EV is one way to get an implied valuation of a company. A DCF provides another perspective to reach EV.

Answer 2

Wait, why isn’t the PV of the terminal value just the company’s EV? Also, couldn’t you just use a multiple of EBITDA to get EV?

Question 3

1. Unlevered and levered
2. Historical beta and calculated beta
3. The relative riskiness or volatility of a company compared to the market
4. Unlevered beta is lower because it does not incorporate the riskiness of debt. Levered beta is higher because it includes the risk factor of debt
5. a) find a comparable list of companies
   b) unlever their betas using the following formula:

levered beta / ((1 + (1 - tax rate)) x (debt / equity value))

c) find the median value
d) re-lever the unlevered beta using the formula”

unlevered beta * (1 + ((1 - tax rate) x (debt / equity value)))

The above re-levering takes into account the company’s debt, equity, and tax rate.

Answer 3

1. What are the 2 types of betas?
2. What are the 2 types of levered betas?
3. Beta measures what?
4. Which type of beta is lower than the other? Why?
5. What are the steps to derive a calculated beta (aka unlever and re-lever)

Question 4

Company A has a higher valuation. Money today is worth more than the same amount of money in the future.

Answer 4

You’re looking at two companies that have the same total projected FCF over a 5 year period. Company A generates 90% of its FCF in year 1, and 10% throughout the rest of the years. Company B generates FCF equally over the 5 years. Both have the same discount rate.

Which company has a higher value based on a DCF?

Question 5

Terminal multiple and perpetuity method

Answer 5

What are the 2 methods to calculate terminal value?

Question 6

If you were to receive $100 in perpetuity and wanting a 10% required rate of return, you would pay $1000. But, if that $100 were to grow by a fixed growth % each year, you would be willing to pay more for that. Thus, you take that same $100, but divide it by the WACC - Growth rate to get the value to pay if requiring a 10% return.

Answer 6

Explain the idea of the Gordon Growth model (utilized in perpetuity method).

Question 7

Subtract value of debt, value of preferred stock, value of minority interest and add cash/equivalents. Then, divide by diluted shares outstanding.

Answer 7

How do you derive equity value/share when you’ve calculated enterprise value via a DCF?

Question 8

Most professionals use book value of debt. However, it is important to adjust that if the market value of the debt is significantly different.

The cost of debt is a risk free rate (typically 10 or 30 year T-Bond) plus a spread to adjust for the company’s risk profile. If the company’s debt is publicly traded, you can directly observe the rate.

If the company’s debt is not publicly traded, I would examine the company’s footnotes looking for a rate, check for latest debt issuances, use a comparable company’s rate, or ask a debt markets professional

Answer 8

How do you get the value of debt?

How is the cost of debt derived? How do you derive it if the company’s debt is not publicly traded?

Question 9

It applies a valuation multiple such as EV/EBITDA, to the final year’s forecasted metric. For example, a company could have a 8x EV/EBITDA multiple, which it would apply to the final year’s projected EBITDA.

The terminal value is discounted according to the final period FCF was projected.

It is important to use an EV multiple

Answer 9

What is the terminal multiple method?

Question 10

1. The same number
2. A number lower than the numerator
3. A number greater than the numerator

Answer 10

1. When you divide a number by 1, you get what?
2. When you divide a number by a number > 1, you get what?
3. When you divide a number by a numer < 1, you what what?

Question 11

1. More debt means the company is riskier (potential for more returns) thus it will have a higher beta leading to a higher cost of equity.
2. It does NOT affect a DCF if utilizing unlevered FCF, but it will lower the equity value if utilizing levered FCF because you subtract payments of principal on debt.

Answer 11

1. What’s the relationship between debt and cost of equity?
2. A company has a high debt balance and is paying off a significant portion of it each year. How does this affect a DCF?

Question 12

10%

Answer 12

Calculate WACC

Risk Free rate 4%

Market risk premium 7%

Levered beta 1.3

Market value of debt $350

Market value of equity $650

Tax rate 35%

Cost of debt 6.6%

Question 13

1. FCF essentially replicates the cash flow statement, but excludes non-recurring cash flows such as particular investing cash flows and financing cash flows such as debt and equity issuances

It more refelcts operating cash flow while including the impact of CapEx

Answer 13

1. Why do you use FCF? What is so important about that?

Question 14

$33

Answer 14

Calculate the equity value per share:

Assume the PV of FCF is $500 million. The PV of the terminal value is $3,000 million. Net debt is $200 million. Cost of equity is 11% and WACC is 9%. There are 100 million diluted shares outstanding.

Question 15

1. It allows us to get to a more realistic version of operating cash flow. In short, if assets are increasing more than liabilities, that means companies are using cash to increase their assets, thus REDUCING cash flow.

On the other hand, if liabilities are increasing greater than assets, that means cash flow is INCREASING.

Answer 15

1. What’s the point of adjusted for changes in OWC (operating working capital)

Question 16

1. Higher valuations because your discounting items for a lesser period
2. You’re performing valuations before or after a fiscal year end, so there is a period of time in between the start of the next year that you need to account for. For example, if it’s currently Sep 30 and the FYE is Dec 31, then you need to project FCF for those 3 months.

Your first period is .25, then second period would be 1.25 (.25 + 1 year). etc

Answer 16

1. Do mid-year conventions produce higher or lower valuations compared to full-year periods (eg: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4)
2. What’s the point of a stub period?

Question 17

Simply add depreciation and amortization to reach EBITDA.

Answer 17

In the terminal multiple method, how do you get EBITDA if you only have EBIT?

Question 18

1. I would apply the gordon growth method to derive the terminal value and then divide it by EBITDA to get a multiple. I would then compare that multiple to the terminal multiple to see if they are compatible.

Answer 18

1. How would you ensure that the perpetuity method and terminal multiple method are compatible?

Question 19

1. (Dividends per share / share price) + Growth rate of dividends

Answer 19

1. How do you calculate Ke without using CAPM?

Question 20

1. Yes and no. For a very quick approximation, yes, but remember that you exclude taxes completely. It would be better to do EBITDA - taxes - changes in OWC - CapEx

Answer 20

As an approximation, do you think it’s okay to use EBITDA - changes in OWC - CapEx

Question 21

1. A DCF derives enterprise value (assuming using unlevered FCFs), whereas DDM derives equity value
2. a) project future dividends as a % of NI
   b) discount using Ke
   c) derive terminal value using perpetuity method / terminal method and discount to PV (terminal multiple P/E)

Answer 21

1. What is the difference between a DCF and the dividend discount model?
2. Show me the formula for a DDM.

Question 22

Company A

Answer 22

Who has the higher PV of the terminal value?

Assume that company A has a WACC of 10% and comapny B has a WACC of 8%. Both companies have a projected year 5 terminal EBITDA of $100 million, but company A’s exit multiple is 10x and company B’s is 8x.

Question 23

The rate reflecting the years commensurate with the number of years projecting free cash flows.

(Rm-Rf) is the market risk premium, which is the premium investors expect for investing in non-risk free assets.

Beta shows the relative volatility of a stock compared to the market.

Answer 23

Which risk free rate should you use?

What is (Rm-Rf)?

What is beta?

Question 24

1. Current NPV - (100 / (1 + WACC)^4)

Answer 24

We’re creating a DCF for a company that is planning to buy a factory for $100 cash in year 4. Currently, the NPV of the company is $200. How do we adjust the NPV to reflect the new CapEx spend?

Question 25

1. EBIT (1-T) + non cash charges - changes in OWC - CapEx NWC should be operating working capital. 2. Generally, the period is 5 - 10 years. The period needs to end at or slightly after the time the company reaches a "steady state". A steady state has many characterizations, one of which is when a company's CapEx is used to offset depreciation. 3. Cash flows from financing

Answer 25

1. What is the FCF formula? 2. How do you determine how many FCF periods to project? 3. Which of the 3 parts of the cash flow statement does unlevered FCF exclude?

Question 26

1. Discount rate change 2. Higher, because they are expected to grow more 3. Raises cost of equity because it makes the entire company riskier (leveraged to generate greater returns). It increases the levered beta, thus increasing cost of equity. 4. It lowers WACC, because cost of debt is cheaper than cost of equity and you're using a larger % of cheaper capital. It offsets the increase in Ke due to an increased beta. 5. Increase WACC because it makes debt more expensive

Answer 26

1. What has a greater impact to a DCF value, a 1% change in revenue or a 1% change in the discount rate? 2. Do smaller companies tend to have a higher or lower Ke? 3. What does additional debt do to Ke? Why? 4. What does additional debt do to WACC? Why? 5. Higher interest rates do what to WACC? Why?

Question 27

Project FCFs for a certain period (5 to 10 years) Calculate the WACC Calculate the terminal value using Terminal multiple or perpetuity method Discount and sum

Answer 27

Give me a high level summary of how to perform a DCF.

Question 28

1. If the convertible bonds are out-of-the money, then yes. If they're in the money, then that increases shares outstanding 2. You'd create a multi-stage DCF that factors in diffferent growth rates and WACC 3. NI to noncontrolling interests should not be included in FCF calculation 4. NI from equity interests should be removed NI since there is no cash increase, thus not affecting the DCF

Answer 28

1. When you're calculating WACC, are convertible bonds treated as debt? 2. If a company has different growth rates and potentially different future capital structures, how would you structure the DCF? 3. How does NI attributable to noncontrolling interests factor into a DCF? 4. How does NI from equity interests factor into a DCF?

Question 29

Subtract interest expense, add interest income, and subtract mandatory debt repayments. This is in ADDITION to the already excluded changes in OWC and subtraction of CapEx

Answer 29

Generally speaking, what adjustments are made to turn the unlevered FCF into a levered FCF?

Question 30

1. Lower 2. Higher 3. Terminal multiple method. You derive multiples from comparable companies and apply it to the latest projected EBITDA. Also, you would use a range of multiples from the comps set

Answer 30

1. Higher cost of capital leads to ____ valuations? 2. Lower cost of capital leads to ____ valuations? 3. What is the most common way to calculate terminal value? How is it derived?

Question 31

Apply a low, single digit growth rate. Typically, something greater than inflation, but no more than the growth of the economy. FCFn x (1+g)/(WACC-g) Discount it according to the number of periods that you projected FCFs.

Answer 31

What is the perpetuity growth method to derive terminal value? Show the formula.

Question 32

It is the blended rate of return the company's debt and equity investors require to cover the risk of investing in the company.

Answer 32

Other than being a company's cost of capital, what is another way to view WACC?

Question 33

Cost of equity is the rate equity investors require for investing in the company and given the company's risk profile.

Answer 33

Explain to me the idea of Ke.

Question 34

1. WACC 2. Ke (Cost of equity) 3. Levered beta 4. Levered beta 5. Equity value 6. Enterprise value

Answer 34

1. What discount rate do you use with a unlevered FCF? 2. What discount rate do you use with a levered FCF? 3. If you use unlevered FCF, which beta do you use? 4. If you use levered FCF, which beta do you use? 5. Discounting levered FCFs derives which value? 6. Discounting unlevered FCFs derives which value?

Question 35

1. Targeted capital structure is more ideal if you can project that, but that is difficult to project 2. Minimizes cost of capital

Answer 35

1. What is more ideal to use, a company's targeted capital structure or current capital structure? 2. The optimal capital structure minimizes what?

Question 36

(E/(E+D+P))\*Ke + (D/(E+D+P))\*(1-T)\*Kd + (P/(E+D+P))\*Kp E=Market value of equity (share price x diluted shares) D= Value of debt P= Value of preferred stock Ke= cost of equity using CAPM Kd= current interest rate on debt Kp= effective yield

Answer 36

What is the formula for WACC?