Estimating The Fair Value Of Setubandhan Infrastructure Limited (NSE:SETUINFRA)

Key Insights

• The projected fair value for Setubandhan Infrastructure is ₹1.18 based on 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity
• Current share price of ₹0.95 suggests Setubandhan Infrastructure is potentially trading close to its fair value
• Setubandhan Infrastructure's peers are currently trading at a premium of 882% on average

Does the February share price for Setubandhan Infrastructure Limited (NSE:SETUINFRA) reflect what it's really worth? Today, we will estimate the stock's intrinsic value by taking the forecast future cash flows of the company and discounting them back to today's value. We will take advantage of the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model for this purpose. There's really not all that much to it, even though it might appear quite complex.

Companies can be valued in a lot of ways, so we would point out that a DCF is not perfect for every situation. 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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The Method

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. In the first stage we need to estimate the cash flows to the business over the next ten years. 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.

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) estimate

	2024	2025	2026	2027	2028	2029	2030	2031	2032	2033
Levered FCF (₹, Millions)	₹21.8m	₹24.0m	₹26.2m	₹28.5m	₹30.7m	₹33.1m	₹35.5m	₹38.0m	₹40.7m	₹43.5m
Growth Rate Estimate Source	Est @ 11.83%	Est @ 10.30%	Est @ 9.23%	Est @ 8.48%	Est @ 7.95%	Est @ 7.59%	Est @ 7.33%	Est @ 7.15%	Est @ 7.02%	Est @ 6.94%
Present Value (₹, Millions) Discounted @ 23%	₹17.7	₹15.8	₹14.0	₹12.3	₹10.7	₹9.4	₹8.1	₹7.1	₹6.1	₹5.3

("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = ₹106m

We now need to calculate the Terminal Value, which accounts for all the future cash flows after this ten year period. 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 23%.

Terminal Value (TV)= FCF₂₀₃₃ × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = ₹44m× (1 + 6.7%) ÷ (23%– 6.7%) = ₹279m

Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)¹⁰= ₹279m÷ ( 1 + 23%)¹⁰= ₹34m

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 ₹141m. In the final step we divide the equity value by the number of shares outstanding. Relative to the current share price of ₹0.9, the company appears about fair value at a 20% 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.

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 Setubandhan Infrastructure 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 23%, which is based on a levered beta of 2.000. 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 Setubandhan Infrastructure

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. The DCF model is not a perfect stock valuation tool. Preferably you'd apply different cases and assumptions and see how they would impact the company's valuation. For example, changes in the company's cost of equity or the risk free rate can significantly impact the valuation. For Setubandhan Infrastructure, we've put together three pertinent elements you should further examine:

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