A Look At The Intrinsic Value Of Mineralbrunnen Überkingen-Teinach GmbH & Co. KGaA (FRA:MUT)

Today we will run through one way of estimating the intrinsic value of Mineralbrunnen Überkingen-Teinach GmbH & Co. KGaA (FRA:MUT) by estimating the company's future cash flows and discounting them to their present value. The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model is the tool we will apply to do this. Don't get put off by the jargon, the math behind it is actually quite straightforward.

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. If you still have some burning questions about this type of valuation, take a look at the Simply Wall St analysis model.

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What's the estimated valuation?

We are going to use a two-stage DCF model, which, as the name states, takes into account two stages of growth. The first stage is generally a higher growth period which levels off heading towards the terminal value, captured in the second 'steady growth' period. To begin with, we have to get estimates of 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 discount the value of these future cash flows to their estimated value in today's dollars:

10-year free cash flow (FCF) estimate

	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	2027	2028	2029	2030
Levered FCF (€, Millions)	€5.54m	€5.12m	€4.85m	€4.66m	€4.54m	€4.46m	€4.41m	€4.37m	€4.35m	€4.33m
Growth Rate Estimate Source	Est @ -10.98%	Est @ -7.66%	Est @ -5.34%	Est @ -3.72%	Est @ -2.58%	Est @ -1.79%	Est @ -1.23%	Est @ -0.84%	Est @ -0.57%	Est @ -0.38%
Present Value (€, Millions) Discounted @ 4.3%	€5.3	€4.7	€4.3	€3.9	€3.7	€3.5	€3.3	€3.1	€3.0	€2.8

("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = €37m

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 (0.07%) 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 4.3%.

Terminal Value (TV)= FCF₂₀₃₀ × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = €4.3m× (1 + 0.07%) ÷ (4.3%– 0.07%) = €103m

Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)¹⁰= €103m÷ ( 1 + 4.3%)¹⁰= €68m

The total value, or equity value, is then the sum of the present value of the future cash flows, which in this case is €105m. To get the intrinsic value per share, we divide this by the total number of shares outstanding. Relative to the current share price of €15.3, the company appears around fair value at the time of writing. The assumptions in any calculation have a big impact on the valuation, so it is better to view this as a rough estimate, not precise down to the last cent.

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 Mineralbrunnen Überkingen-Teinach GmbH KGaA 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 4.3%, which is based on a levered beta of 0.804. 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.

Moving On:

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. Rather it should be seen as a guide to "what assumptions need to be true for this stock to be under/overvalued?" For instance, if the terminal value growth rate is adjusted slightly, it can dramatically alter the overall result. For Mineralbrunnen Überkingen-Teinach GmbH KGaA, we've put together three further factors you should assess:

1. Risks: Case in point, we've spotted 2 warning signs for Mineralbrunnen Überkingen-Teinach GmbH KGaA you should be aware of.
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