Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)

Discount cash flow analysis

5% margin of safety What's this?

Buy Undervalued by 33.9%

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This is an interactive analyst report for Yahoo! Inc., based on a discounted cash flow valuation approach.

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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

   
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Discount Rate %
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  -1% $20.25 $19.88 $19.54
Terminal Growth% 0 $20.45 $20.07 $19.72
  +1% $20.65 $20.27 $19.91

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

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Four Futures Of Yahoo

This valuation forms part of this blog post:

http://blog.valuecruncher.com/2008/05/four-futures-of-yahoo/

Assumptions are revenues of US$5.75 billion in 2008 growing to US$7.25 billion in 2010. We have used a flat EBITDA margin of 35%. We have used a terminal growth rate of 5.75%. We calculated that using a present value calculation with the growth rate dropping from 12% in 2011 to 3.5% in 2015. We used a terminal capital expenditure number of US$600 billion. We have used a WACC (discount rate) of 10.5%.

By TheCrunchBlog, about 1 year ago

The boring details

All amounts in millions Figures
Enterprise Value: 19,371
Net Debt (Long-term borrowings less cash): -1,251
Equity Value: 38,138
Number of Shares Outstanding: 1,375,000,000
Calculated value per share: $20.07

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.