Yahoo Finance A Look At The Fair Value Of SKY Network Television Limited (NZSE:SKT)
Does the share price for SKY Network Television Limited (NZSE:SKT) reflect it’s really worth? Today, I will calculate the stock’s intrinsic value by projecting its future cash flows and then discounting them to today’s value. This is done using the discounted cash flows (DCF) model. It may sound complicated, but actually it is quite simple! If you want to learn more about discounted cash flow, the basis for my calcs can be read in detail in the Simply Wall St analysis model. If you are reading this and its not August 2018 then I highly recommend you check out the latest calculation for SKY Network Television by following the link below.
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Crunching the numbers
I’m 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 perpetual stable growth rate. To begin with we have to get estimates of the next five years of cash flows. For this I used the consensus of the analysts covering the stock, as you can see below. I then discount this to its value today and sum up the total to get the present value of these cash flows.
5-year cash flow estimate
2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
Levered FCF (NZ$, Millions) | NZ$143.50 | NZ$106.50 | NZ$95.00 | NZ$95.11 | NZ$95.22 |
Source | Analyst x2 | Analyst x2 | Analyst x1 | Est @ 0.12% | Est @ 0.12% |
Present Value Discounted @ 12.36% | NZ$127.71 | NZ$84.36 | NZ$66.97 | NZ$59.67 | NZ$53.17 |
Present Value of 5-year Cash Flow (PVCF)= NZ$391.9m
The second stage is also known as Terminal Value, this is the business’s cash flow after the first stage. For a number of reasons a very conservative growth rate is used that cannot exceed that of the GDP. In this case I have used the 10-year government bond rate (5%). In the same way as with the 5-year ‘growth’ period, we discount this to today’s value at a cost of equity of 12.4%.
Terminal Value (TV) = FCF2022 × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = NZ$95.2m × (1 + 5%) ÷ (12.4% – 5%) = NZ$1.37b
Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV) = TV / (1 + r)5 = NZ$1.37b ÷ ( 1 + 12.4%)5 = NZ$763.1m
The total value is the sum of cash flows for the next five years and the discounted terminal value, which results in the Total Equity Value, which in this case is NZ$1.15b. The last step is to then divide the equity value by the number of shares outstanding. If the stock is an depositary receipt (represents a specified number of shares in a foreign corporation) then we use the equivalent number. This results in an intrinsic value of NZ$2.97. Relative to the current share price of NZ$2.65, the stock is about right, perhaps slightly undervalued at a 10.7% discount to what it is available for right now.
The assumptions
Now the most important inputs to a discounted cash flow are the discount rate, and of course, the actual cash flows. If you don’t agree with my result, have a go at the calculation yourself and play with the assumptions. Because we are looking at SKY Network Television as potential shareholders, the cost of equity is used as the discount rate, rather than the cost of capital (or weighed average cost of capital, WACC) which accounts for debt. In this calculation I’ve used 12.4%, which is based on a levered beta of 1.476. This is derived from the Bottom-Up Beta method based on comparable companies, with an imposed limit between 0.8 and 2.0, which is a reasonable range for a stable business.
Next Steps:
Valuation is only one side of the coin in terms of building your investment thesis, and it shouldn’t be the only metric you look at when researching a company. For SKT, there are three pertinent aspects you should further research:
Financial Health: Does SKT have a healthy balance sheet? Take a look at our free balance sheet analysis with six simple checks on key factors like leverage and risk.
Future Earnings: How does SKT’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.
Other High Quality Alternatives: Are there other high quality stocks you could be holding instead of SKT? Explore our interactive list of high quality stocks to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!
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