Assumptions for discounted cash flow analysis in PLC report.

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In the most recent report on PLC, you state “a modest DCF puts PLC in the high $50 range”. I have been playing with DCF recently, and I was curious what underlying assumptions you make when carrying out a DCF analysis for a stock. In particular my questions were:

1) For how many years do you sum up the DCF?
2) What discount rate do you use?
3) How do you determine the growth rate for the FCF? So far I have either used the past average 5 year FCF growth rate or the 5-year average ROE.
4) What kind of long term growth rate do you use? i.e. for the time frame past the end of the DCF?

Thanks!

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Asked on May 2, 2022 1:24 pm
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Hey there! I ended up giving you the DCF analysis on Discord but I'll drop it in here as well. I've attached an image of the analysis and numbers. And here was my comments from the Discord:

This is making a few assumptions, of course. Such as the maintenance of strong margins, as well as lower dilution.

7.4% rate of return (discount rate) is simply Park Lawn's WACC.

THis is actually in my opinion a pretty.... modest estimate of FCF growth as well.

Over the last 3 years Park Lawn has grown FCF by around 125%. I only factor in low double digit FCF growth here.

If we go down to a lower terminal growth rate, we get a bit more modest share price of $44. But, this company is still significantly discounted at these levels.

The company is becoming increasingly more efficient. When you look to the company's FCF to sales, you're looking at 2.9% in 2018, 3.8% in 2019, 7% in 2020, 14% in 2021.

It will be very interesting to see what they do moving forward.

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Posted by Dan Kent
Answered on May 9, 2022 9:02 pm