Canadian National Railway Company (CNR)

Discount cash flow analysis

Sell Overvalued by 51.7%

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How does this work?

This is an interactive analyst report for Canadian National Railway Company, based on a discounted cash flow valuation approach.

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Values in $ millions
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What will the revenues be in the future?

Growth beyond year three is driven by the terminal growth rate.

Sensitivity matrix

   
-1%
Discount Rate %
0%

1%
  -1% $51.80 $50.67 $49.57
Terminal Growth% 0 $52.30 $51.15 $50.04
  +1% $52.81 $51.64 $50.51

How does a change in discount rate or terminal growth affect valuation?

This table shows the sensitivity of the valuation to two key variables - the discount rate and the terminal growth rate

Valuations and comments

  • Valuecruncher created a new valuation of $73.02 (overvalued by 31.1%) - 10 hours ago
  • dweis created a new valuation of $43.44 (overvalued by 4.44%) - over 4 years ago
  • GordonGekko created a new valuation of $51.15 (overvalued by 5.44%) - over 4 years ago

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The boring details

All amounts in millions Figures
Enterprise Value: 55,477
Net Debt (Long-term borrowings less cash): 5,307
Equity Value: 25,606
Number of Shares Outstanding: 473,000,000
Calculated value per share: $51.15

Enterprise Value is the present value of the post-tax cash flows for a business into the future.


Calcuation of EV

Where:

  • C1, C2, C3 - the cash flow in period 1, 2, 3, ...
  • r - the discount rate

To capture the cash flows into the future a terminal value is calculated via a perpetuity calculation -
based on the final years forecast post-tax free cash flow.


Perpetuity

Where:

  • Cn - the cash flow in the final forecast period.
  • LTG - the long-term growth rate
  • r - the discount rate
  • g - the terminal growth rate

The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is used to determine the equity component in the discount rate.


CAPM model

Where:

  • rt - the risk free rate
  • t - the tax rate
  • B - the beta of the company
  • MRP - the Market Risk Premium

Valuecruncher uses an estimate of Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) to determine the discount rate in the calculation.