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1.
A company's future cash flow can be determined exactly.
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False. Future cash flow can never be determined exactly. At best, it can be estimated based on a number of financial and economic factors.
2.
Assume you have created a DCF model that estimates a company's value to be $50 per share, but the stock trades at $90 per share. The stock is _______.
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Overvalued. Because the stock trades above its estimated fair value, the stock is overvalued, and we should probably not buy the shares. Being able to compare a stock's market price to its fair value is where the effort put into creating the DCF pays off.
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If we were to increase a company's cost of equity assumption, what would we expect to happen to the present value of all future cash flows?
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A decrease. Raising the company's cost of equity assumption would lower the present value of all future cash flows.
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Assume a company had $1 billion in free cash flow last year, and it is expected to grow that cash flow at 3% into perpetuity. Assuming a 9% cost of equity, what is the value of the company?
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$17.2 billion. All we need to do is plug the assumptions into our perpetuity formula: ( $1 billion x (1 + .03) ) / (.09 - .03) = $17.2 billion.
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When projecting future cash flow of a company in order to determine the fair value of its stock, where should you start?
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With past data gotten from financial statements. To look forward, you first have to look backward. That way, you will see important patterns.