Estimating The Fair Value Of Nava Bharat Ventures Limited (NSE:NBVENTURES)

Today we'll do a simple run through of a valuation method used to estimate the attractiveness of Nava Bharat Ventures Limited (NSE:NBVENTURES) as an investment opportunity by estimating the company's 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 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.

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Crunching the numbers

We use what is known as a 2-stage model, which simply means we have two different periods of growth rates for the company's cash flows. Generally the first stage is higher growth, and the second stage is a lower growth phase. 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

	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	2027	2028	2029	2030	2031
Levered FCF (₹, Millions)	₹4.37b	₹3.97b	₹3.79b	₹3.75b	₹3.79b	₹3.90b	₹4.06b	₹4.26b	₹4.49b	₹4.75b
Growth Rate Estimate Source	Est @ -16.09%	Est @ -9.25%	Est @ -4.45%	Est @ -1.1%	Est @ 1.25%	Est @ 2.89%	Est @ 4.04%	Est @ 4.85%	Est @ 5.41%	Est @ 5.81%
Present Value (₹, Millions) Discounted @ 15%	₹3.8k	₹3.0k	₹2.5k	₹2.1k	₹1.9k	₹1.7k	₹1.5k	₹1.4k	₹1.3k	₹1.2k

("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = ₹20b

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 (6.7%) 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 15%.

Terminal Value (TV)= FCF₂₀₃₁ × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = ₹4.8b× (1 + 6.7%) ÷ (15%– 6.7%) = ₹60b

Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)¹⁰= ₹60b÷ ( 1 + 15%)¹⁰= ₹14b

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 ₹35b. In the final step we divide the equity value by the number of shares outstanding. Compared to the current share price of ₹205, the company appears about fair value at a 14% 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.

Important assumptions

We would point out that the most important inputs to a discounted cash flow are the discount rate and of course the actual 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 Nava Bharat Ventures 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 15%, which is based on a levered beta of 1.323. 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:

Although the valuation of a company is important, it is only one of many factors that you need to assess for 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. For Nava Bharat Ventures, we've compiled three pertinent factors you should assess:

1. Risks: Be aware that Nava Bharat Ventures is showing 3 warning signs in our investment analysis , and 1 of those is potentially serious...
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