Yahoo Finance Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated (NASDAQ:BSET) Shares Could Be 43% Below Their Intrinsic Value Estimate
Today we will run through one way of estimating the intrinsic value of Bassett Furniture Industries, Incorporated (NASDAQ:BSET) by taking the expected future cash flows and discounting them to their present value. We will take advantage of the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model for this purpose. It may sound complicated, but actually it is quite simple!
We generally believe that a company's value is the present value of all of the cash it will generate in the future. However, a DCF is just one valuation metric among many, and it is not without flaws. Anyone interested in learning a bit more about intrinsic value should have a read of the Simply Wall St analysis model.
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What's the estimated valuation?
We're using the 2-stage growth model, which simply means we take in account two stages of company's growth. In the initial period the company may have a higher growth rate and the second stage is usually assumed to have a stable growth rate. In the first stage we need to estimate the cash flows to the business over the next ten years. Where possible we use analyst estimates, but when these aren't available we extrapolate the previous free cash flow (FCF) from the last estimate or reported value. We assume companies with shrinking free cash flow will slow their rate of shrinkage, and that companies with growing free cash flow will see their growth rate slow, over this period. We do this to reflect that growth tends to slow more in the early years than it does in later years.
Generally we assume that a dollar today is more valuable than a dollar in the future, and so the sum of these future cash flows is then discounted to today's value:
10-year free cash flow (FCF) estimate
2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | |
Levered FCF ($, Millions) | US$17.0m | US$22.2m | US$23.1m | US$23.8m | US$24.5m | US$25.2m | US$25.8m | US$26.4m | US$27.0m | US$27.6m |
Growth Rate Estimate Source | Analyst x1 | Analyst x1 | Est @ 3.98% | Est @ 3.38% | Est @ 2.95% | Est @ 2.65% | Est @ 2.45% | Est @ 2.3% | Est @ 2.2% | Est @ 2.13% |
Present Value ($, Millions) Discounted @ 9.4% | US$15.5 | US$18.5 | US$17.6 | US$16.7 | US$15.7 | US$14.7 | US$13.8 | US$12.9 | US$12.1 | US$11.3 |
("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = US$148m
The second stage is also known as Terminal Value, this is the business's cash flow after the first stage. The Gordon Growth formula is used to calculate Terminal Value at a future annual growth rate equal to the 5-year average of the 10-year government bond yield of 2.0%. We discount the terminal cash flows to today's value at a cost of equity of 9.4%.
Terminal Value (TV)= FCF2031 × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = US$28m× (1 + 2.0%) ÷ (9.4%– 2.0%) = US$379m
Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)10= US$379m÷ ( 1 + 9.4%)10= US$155m
The total value is the sum of cash flows for the next ten years plus the discounted terminal value, which results in the Total Equity Value, which in this case is US$303m. To get the intrinsic value per share, we divide this by the total number of shares outstanding. Relative to the current share price of US$17.8, the company appears quite good value at a 43% discount to where the stock price trades currently. Remember though, that this is just an approximate valuation, and like any complex formula - garbage in, garbage out.
Important assumptions
The calculation above is very dependent on two assumptions. The first is the discount rate and the other is the cash flows. You don't have to agree with these inputs, I recommend redoing the calculations yourself and playing with them. The DCF also does not consider the possible cyclicality of an industry, or a company's future capital requirements, so it does not give a full picture of a company's potential performance. Given that we are looking at Bassett Furniture Industries as potential shareholders, the cost of equity is used as the discount rate, rather than the cost of capital (or weighted average cost of capital, WACC) which accounts for debt. In this calculation we've used 9.4%, which is based on a levered beta of 1.691. Beta is a measure of a stock's volatility, compared to the market as a whole. We get our beta from the industry average beta of globally comparable companies, with an imposed limit between 0.8 and 2.0, which is a reasonable range for a stable business.
Looking Ahead:
Valuation is only one side of the coin in terms of building your investment thesis, and it is only one of many factors that you need to assess for a company. DCF models are not the be-all and end-all of investment valuation. Preferably you'd apply different cases and assumptions and see how they would impact the company's valuation. For example, changes in the company's cost of equity or the risk free rate can significantly impact the valuation. Can we work out why the company is trading at a discount to intrinsic value? For Bassett Furniture Industries, there are three further factors you should further research:
Risks: Case in point, we've spotted 2 warning signs for Bassett Furniture Industries you should be aware of.
Future Earnings: How does BSET's growth rate compare to its peers and the wider market? Dig deeper into the analyst consensus number for the upcoming years by interacting with our free analyst growth expectation chart.
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