Yahoo Finance A Look At The Intrinsic Value Of Premier African Minerals Limited (LON:PREM)
How far off is Premier African Minerals Limited (LON:PREM) from its intrinsic value? Using the most recent financial data, we'll take a look at whether the stock is fairly priced by taking the expected future cash flows and discounting them to today's value. I will use the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. It may sound complicated, but actually it is quite simple!
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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Is Premier African Minerals fairly valued?
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) forecast
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | |
Levered FCF ($, Millions) | US$431.0k | US$574.4k | US$709.1k | US$826.7k | US$923.9k | US$1.00m | US$1.06m | US$1.11m | US$1.14m | US$1.17m |
Growth Rate Estimate Source | Est @ 47.32% | Est @ 33.28% | Est @ 23.45% | Est @ 16.58% | Est @ 11.76% | Est @ 8.39% | Est @ 6.03% | Est @ 4.38% | Est @ 3.23% | Est @ 2.42% |
Present Value ($, Millions) Discounted @ 6.7% | US$0.4 | US$0.5 | US$0.6 | US$0.6 | US$0.7 | US$0.7 | US$0.7 | US$0.7 | US$0.6 | US$0.6 |
("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = US$6.0m
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 10-year government bond rate (0.5%) 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 6.7%.
Terminal Value (TV)= FCF2029 × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = US$1.2m× (1 + 0.5%) ÷ 6.7%– 0.5%) = US$19m
Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)10= US$19m÷ ( 1 + 6.7%)10= US$9.9m
The total value, or equity value, is then the sum of the present value of the future cash flows, which in this case is US$16m. In the final step we divide the equity value by the number of shares outstanding. Compared to the current share price of UK£0.0009, the company appears about fair value at a 16% 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
The calculation above is very dependent on two assumptions. The first is the discount rate and the other is the cash flows. You don't have to agree with these inputs, I recommend redoing the calculations yourself and playing with them. 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 Premier African Minerals 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 6.7%, which is based on a levered beta of 1.143. 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.
Next Steps:
Although the valuation of a company is important, it shouldn’t be the only metric you look at when researching 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?" 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 Premier African Minerals, I've put together three further factors you should further research:
Financial Health: Does PREM have a healthy balance sheet? Take a look at our free balance sheet analysis with six simple checks on key factors like leverage and risk.
Other High Quality Alternatives: Are there other high quality stocks you could be holding instead of PREM? Explore our interactive list of high quality stocks to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!
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