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Is Jiangsu Chuanzhiboke Education Technology Co., LTD. (SZSE:003032) Trading At A 46% Discount?

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Key Insights

  • Using the 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity, Jiangsu Chuanzhiboke Education Technology fair value estimate is CN¥19.51
  • Current share price of CN¥10.46 suggests Jiangsu Chuanzhiboke Education Technology is potentially 46% undervalued
  • The CN¥10.85 analyst price target for 003032 is 44% less than our estimate of fair value

Today we will run through one way of estimating the intrinsic value of Jiangsu Chuanzhiboke Education Technology Co., LTD. (SZSE:003032) by projecting its future cash flows and then discounting them to today's value. This will be done using the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. It may sound complicated, but actually it is quite simple!

Remember though, that there are many ways to estimate a company's value, and a DCF is just one method. Anyone interested in learning a bit more about intrinsic value should have a read of the Simply Wall St analysis model.

View our latest analysis for Jiangsu Chuanzhiboke Education Technology

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 begin with, we have to get estimates of the next ten years of cash flows. 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) forecast

2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034
Levered FCF (CN¥, Millions) CN¥226.9m CN¥295.7m CN¥340.1m CN¥361.1m CN¥378.0m CN¥393.7m CN¥408.5m CN¥422.7m CN¥436.6m CN¥450.4m
Growth Rate Estimate Source Analyst x1 Analyst x1 Analyst x1 Analyst x1 Est @ 4.70% Est @ 4.14% Est @ 3.76% Est @ 3.48% Est @ 3.29% Est @ 3.16%
Present Value (CN¥, Millions) Discounted @ 7.2% CN¥212 CN¥257 CN¥276 CN¥274 CN¥267 CN¥260 CN¥251 CN¥243 CN¥234 CN¥225

("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = CN¥2.5b

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 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 7.2%.

Terminal Value (TV)= FCF2034 × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = CN¥450m× (1 + 2.9%) ÷ (7.2%– 2.9%) = CN¥11b

Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)10= CN¥11b÷ ( 1 + 7.2%)10= CN¥5.4b

The total value, or equity value, is then the sum of the present value of the future cash flows, which in this case is CN¥7.9b. The last step is to then divide the equity value by the number of shares outstanding. Compared to the current share price of CN¥10.5, the company appears quite good value at a 46% 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.

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SZSE:003032 Discounted Cash Flow October 4th 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. 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 Jiangsu Chuanzhiboke Education Technology 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 7.2%, which is based on a levered beta of 0.869. 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 Jiangsu Chuanzhiboke Education Technology

Strength
  • Currently debt free.
Weakness
  • Dividend is low compared to the top 25% of dividend payers in the Consumer Services market.
Opportunity
  • Expected to breakeven next year.
  • Has sufficient cash runway for more than 3 years based on current free cash flows.
  • Trading below our estimate of fair value by more than 20%.
Threat
  • No apparent threats visible for 003032.

Next Steps:

Although the valuation of a company is important, it is only one of many factors that you need to assess for a company. The DCF model is not a perfect stock valuation tool. Instead the best use for a DCF model is to test certain assumptions and theories to see if they would lead to the company being undervalued or overvalued. For instance, if the terminal value growth rate is adjusted slightly, it can dramatically alter the overall result. Why is the intrinsic value higher than the current share price? For Jiangsu Chuanzhiboke Education Technology, there are three essential elements you should further examine:

  1. Financial Health: Does 003032 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.
  2. Future Earnings: How does 003032'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!

PS. Simply Wall St updates its DCF calculation for every Chinese stock every day, so if you want to find the intrinsic value of any other stock just search here.

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