United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS)

Discount cash flow analysis

Sell Overvalued by 34.2%

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How does this work?

This is an interactive analyst report for United Parcel Service, Inc., 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.

Price history

Sensitivity matrix

   
-1% 		Discount Rate %
0%
1%
  -1% $43.09 $42.30 $41.55
Terminal Growth% 0 $43.36 $42.57 $41.80
  +1% $43.64 $42.83 $42.06

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 $45.17 (overvalued by 30.14%) - 20 hours ago
  • Valuecruncher created a new valuation of $45.16 (overvalued by 30.16%) - 1 day ago
  • SethWellbourne created a new valuation of $35.84 (overvalued by 26.27%) - 1 year ago
  • TheCrunchBlog created a new valuation of $42.57 (overvalued by 11.55%) - 1 year ago
  • GordonGekko created a new valuation of $50.43 (undervalued by 8.71%) - 1 year ago

Comments

Running The Numbers - intrinsic valuation for Brown ($UPS)

This valuation is part of this blog post:

http://blog.valuecruncher.com/2008/10/running-the-numbers-intrinsic-valuation-for-brown-ups/

Assumptions

Revenue: Reuters aggregates 12 analysts covering $UPS and these analysts have mean estimates of 2008 and 2009 revenues of US$52.8 billion and US$56.4 billion respectively. For our analysis we have used US$52.0 billion in 2008, US$54.0 billion in 2009 and US$58.0 billion in 2010. We are worried about near term global economic conditions - which will impact companies like $UPS.

Profitability: We have used an EBITDA margin of 15.0% flat to 2010.

Capital Expenditure: We have assumed capital expenditures of US$2.85 billion in 2008 and then US$3.0 billion per annum moving forward.

Discount Rate: 10.0%. We believe that a discount rate in the 9-10% range is reasonable. Dropping the discount rate to 9% increases the valuation to US$51.75 (7.5% above the current share price).

Terminal Growth Rate: 3.5%.

Our analysis incorporates the cash and debt the $UPS balance sheet – Valuecruncher calculates a net debt number.

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The boring details

All amounts in millions Figures
Enterprise Value: 73,601
Net Debt (Long-term borrowings less cash): 8,414
Equity Value: 48,522
Number of Shares Outstanding: 1,008,000,000
Calculated value per share: $42.57

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.