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Is Jiangling Motors Corporation, Ltd. (SZSE:000550) Trading At A 26% Discount?

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Key Insights

  • Using the 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity, Jiangling Motors Corporation fair value estimate is CN¥30.14
  • Jiangling Motors Corporation is estimated to be 26% undervalued based on current share price of CN¥22.26
  • Analyst price target for 000550 is CN¥35.13, which is 17% above our fair value estimate

Today we will run through one way of estimating the intrinsic value of Jiangling Motors Corporation, Ltd. (SZSE:000550) by estimating the company's future cash flows and discounting them to their present value. One way to achieve this is by employing the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. Before you think you won't be able to understand it, just read on! It's actually much less complex than you'd imagine.

We would caution that there are many ways of valuing a company and, like the DCF, each technique has advantages and disadvantages in certain scenarios. If you still have some burning questions about this type of valuation, take a look at the Simply Wall St analysis model.

Check out our latest analysis for Jiangling Motors Corporation

The Method

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. To start off with, we need to estimate the next ten years of cash flows. Seeing as no analyst estimates of free cash flow are available to us, we have extrapolate the previous free cash flow (FCF) from the company's last 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.

A DCF is all about the idea that a dollar in the future is less valuable than a dollar today, so we need to discount the sum of these future cash flows to arrive at a present value estimate:

10-year free cash flow (FCF) forecast

2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034
Levered FCF (CN¥, Millions) CN¥2.23b CN¥2.27b CN¥2.31b CN¥2.36b CN¥2.41b CN¥2.47b CN¥2.54b CN¥2.61b CN¥2.68b CN¥2.75b
Growth Rate Estimate Source Est @ 0.83% Est @ 1.44% Est @ 1.86% Est @ 2.16% Est @ 2.37% Est @ 2.51% Est @ 2.61% Est @ 2.68% Est @ 2.73% Est @ 2.77%
Present Value (CN¥, Millions) Discounted @ 11% CN¥2.0k CN¥1.8k CN¥1.7k CN¥1.5k CN¥1.4k CN¥1.3k CN¥1.2k CN¥1.1k CN¥1.0k CN¥957

("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = CN¥14b

After calculating the present value of future cash flows in the initial 10-year period, we need to calculate the Terminal Value, which accounts for all future cash flows beyond the first stage. For a number of reasons a very conservative growth rate is used that cannot exceed that of a country's GDP growth. In this case we have used the 5-year average of the 10-year government bond yield (2.9%) to estimate future growth. In the same way as with the 10-year 'growth' period, we discount future cash flows to today's value, using a cost of equity of 11%.

Terminal Value (TV)= FCF2034 × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = CN¥2.8b× (1 + 2.9%) ÷ (11%– 2.9%) = CN¥34b

Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)10= CN¥34b÷ ( 1 + 11%)10= CN¥12b

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 CN¥26b. To get the intrinsic value per share, we divide this by the total number of shares outstanding. Compared to the current share price of CN¥22.3, the company appears a touch undervalued at a 26% discount to where the stock price trades currently. Valuations are imprecise instruments though, rather like a telescope - move a few degrees and end up in a different galaxy. Do keep this in mind.

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SZSE:000550 Discounted Cash Flow September 25th 2024

Important Assumptions

The calculation above is very dependent on two assumptions. The first is the discount rate and the other is the cash flows. Part of investing is coming up with your own evaluation of a company's future performance, so try the calculation yourself and check your own assumptions. 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 Jiangling Motors Corporation 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 11%, which is based on a levered beta of 1.664. 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.

SWOT Analysis for Jiangling Motors Corporation

Strength
  • Earnings growth over the past year exceeded the industry.
  • Debt is not viewed as a risk.
  • Dividends are covered by earnings and cash flows.
  • Dividend is in the top 25% of dividend payers in the market.
Weakness
  • Earnings growth over the past year is below its 5-year average.
Opportunity
  • Annual earnings are forecast to grow for the next 3 years.
  • Good value based on P/E ratio and estimated fair value.
Threat
  • Annual earnings are forecast to grow slower than the Chinese market.

Next Steps:

Whilst important, the DCF calculation shouldn't be the only metric you look at when researching a company. It's not possible to obtain a foolproof valuation with a DCF model. Preferably you'd apply different cases and assumptions and see how they would impact the company's valuation. If a company grows at a different rate, or if its cost of equity or risk free rate changes sharply, the output can look very different. Can we work out why the company is trading at a discount to intrinsic value? For Jiangling Motors Corporation, we've put together three relevant items you should assess:

  1. Risks: For example, we've discovered 3 warning signs for Jiangling Motors Corporation (1 can't be ignored!) that you should be aware of before investing here.
  2. Future Earnings: How does 000550'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.
  3. Other High Quality Alternatives: Do you like a good all-rounder? 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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