A Look At The Intrinsic Value Of Daewoong Co., Ltd. (KRX:003090)

Today we'll do a simple run through of a valuation method used to estimate the attractiveness of Daewoong Co., Ltd. (KRX:003090) as an investment opportunity by taking the forecast future cash flows of the company and discounting them back to today's value. Our analysis will employ 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.

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.

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What's the estimated valuation?

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.

Generally we assume that a dollar today is more valuable than a dollar in the future, so we discount the value of these future cash flows to their estimated value in today's dollars:

10-year free cash flow (FCF) forecast

	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	2027	2028	2029	2030
Levered FCF (₩, Millions)	₩77.9b	₩83.3b	₩88.2b	₩92.8b	₩97.2b	₩101.5b	₩105.8b	₩110.1b	₩114.4b	₩118.9b
Growth Rate Estimate Source	Est @ 8.21%	Est @ 6.85%	Est @ 5.9%	Est @ 5.24%	Est @ 4.77%	Est @ 4.44%	Est @ 4.21%	Est @ 4.05%	Est @ 3.94%	Est @ 3.86%
Present Value (₩, Millions) Discounted @ 8.8%	₩71.6k	₩70.3k	₩68.5k	₩66.2k	₩63.8k	₩61.2k	₩58.6k	₩56.1k	₩53.6k	₩51.2k

("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = ₩621b

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 (3.7%) 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 8.8%.

Terminal Value (TV)= FCF₂₀₃₀ × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = ₩119b× (1 + 3.7%) ÷ (8.8%– 3.7%) = ₩2.4t

Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)¹⁰= ₩2.4t÷ ( 1 + 8.8%)¹⁰= ₩1.0t

The total value, or equity value, is then the sum of the present value of the future cash flows, which in this case is ₩1.7t. In the final step we divide the equity value by the number of shares outstanding. Relative to the current share price of ₩33k, the company appears about fair value at a 18% 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.

The assumptions

Now 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 Daewoong 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 8.8%, which is based on a levered beta of 0.858. 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:

Whilst important, the DCF calculation ideally won't be the sole piece of analysis you scrutinize for a company. DCF models are not the be-all and end-all of investment valuation. Rather it should be seen as a guide to "what assumptions need to be true for this stock to be under/overvalued?" 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 Daewoong, there are three relevant aspects you should further examine:

1. Risks: For example, we've discovered 2 warning signs for Daewoong that you should be aware of before investing here.
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