Does Snap’s Slumping Share Price Offer Opportunity After AR and Ad Platform Push?

• If you are wondering whether Snap at around $7.60 is a beaten down trap or a quietly undervalued comeback story, you are not alone. That is exactly what we are going to unpack here.
• Over the last week Snap slipped about 0.1%, is down 7.5% over 30 days, and has dropped a hefty 32.5% over the past year. These moves signal the market is still wrestling with its long term prospects.
• Recent headlines have focused on Snap sharpening its focus on augmented reality tools and improving ad platform performance, as the company tries to differentiate itself in a crowded social media landscape. At the same time, ongoing debates about digital ad spending, privacy changes, and competition from larger rivals have weighed on sentiment and help explain why the stock has struggled.
• Even so, Snap currently scores a 4/6 valuation score, suggesting it screens as undervalued on several checks. In the next sections we will walk through those valuation methods and, finally, look at a more powerful way to tie them all together.

Find out why Snap's -32.5% return over the last year is lagging behind its peers.

Approach 1: Snap Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis

A Discounted Cash Flow, or DCF, model estimates what a company is worth by projecting the cash it can generate in the future and discounting those cash flows back to today in dollar terms.

For Snap, the model starts with last twelve month Free Cash Flow of about $390 million, and then uses analyst forecasts and extrapolations to project growth. By 2029, annual Free Cash Flow is expected to reach roughly $1.17 billion, with further gains implied through to 2035 as the business scales.

Using a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity approach, Simply Wall St combines these projected cash flows into an estimated intrinsic value of $13.06 per share. Compared with the current share price around $7.60, the DCF points to Snap trading at about a 41.6% discount to its calculated fair value, which suggests the shares may be undervalued if these cash flow assumptions hold.

Result: UNDERVALUED

Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests Snap is undervalued by 41.6%. Track this in your watchlist or portfolio, or discover 916 more undervalued stocks based on cash flows.

Head to the Valuation section of our Company Report for more details on how we arrive at this Fair Value for Snap.

Approach 2: Snap Price vs Sales

For companies like Snap that are still working toward consistent profitability, the Price to Sales (P/S) multiple is often the cleanest way to compare valuation. It focuses on how much investors are paying for each dollar of revenue rather than earnings that may be volatile or negative.

In general, higher growth and lower risk justify a higher multiple, while slower growth or greater uncertainty pull that “normal” level down. Snap currently trades on a P/S of about 2.27x, which is above the Interactive Media and Services industry average of roughly 1.09x, but below the peer group average of around 2.80x. Simply Wall St’s proprietary Fair Ratio model estimates that, given Snap’s growth outlook, margins, risk profile, industry and market cap, a more appropriate P/S would be about 2.51x.

This Fair Ratio is more informative than a simple peer or industry comparison because it explicitly adjusts for Snap’s specific characteristics rather than assuming all companies in the space deserve similar pricing. With the actual P/S of 2.27x sitting below the 2.51x Fair Ratio, the multiple analysis suggests Snap’s shares are trading at a discount to what its fundamentals would typically warrant.

Result: UNDERVALUED

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Upgrade Your Decision Making: Choose your Snap Narrative

Earlier we mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation, so let us introduce you to Narratives, a simple tool on Simply Wall St’s Community page that lets you turn your view of Snap into a clear story. It connects that story to a financial forecast for revenue, earnings and margins, and then shows you the fair value that results from those assumptions. You can compare that value to today’s price to decide whether to buy, hold or sell. The platform keeps your Narrative updated as new news or earnings arrive. One investor may build a bullish Snap Narrative that looks more like a $16.00 opportunity driven by higher margin AI and AR partnerships. Another may lean on the same data to frame a more cautious story that caps fair value closer to $7.00, with both perspectives fully grounded in numbers rather than hunches.

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