Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL)

Discount cash flow analysis

Within margin of safety Undervalued by 3.3%

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This is an interactive analyst report for Colgate-Palmolive Company, based on a discounted cash flow valuation approach.

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What will the revenues be in the future?

Growth beyond year three is driven by the terminal growth rate.

Price history

Sensitivity matrix

   
-1% 		Discount Rate %
0%
1%
  -1% $76.78 $75.50 $74.26
Terminal Growth% 0 $77.26 $75.96 $74.71
  +1% $77.75 $76.43 $75.16

How does a change in discount rate or terminal growth affect valuation?

This table shows the sensitivity of the valuation to two key variables - the discount rate and the terminal growth rate

Valuations and comments

  • Valuecruncher created a new valuation of $70.99 (overvalued by 3.45%) - over 4 years ago
  • swampler created a new valuation of $74.22 (undervalued by 26.22%) - almost 12 years ago
  • swampler created a new valuation of $57.62 (overvalued by 2.01%) - almost 12 years ago
  • SethWellbourne created a new valuation of $46.61 (overvalued by 20.72%) - almost 12 years ago
  • nzvikram created a new valuation of $73.00 (undervalued by 19.89%) - 12 years ago
  • dweis created a new valuation of $69.83 (undervalued by 9.02%) - over 12 years ago
  • TheCrunchBlog created a new valuation of $75.96 (undervalued by 20.53%) - over 12 years ago
  • KiwiEMH created a new valuation of $74.65 (undervalued by 0.39%) - almost 13 years ago
  • Diegoengel created a new valuation of $81.87 (undervalued by 19.36%) - almost 13 years ago

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Running The Numbers - Colgate-Palmolive ($CL) Intrinsic Valuation

This valuation is part of this blog post:

http://blog.valuecruncher.com/2008/11/running-the-numbers-colgate-palmolive-cl/

Assumptions

Revenue: Reuters aggregates 12 analysts covering $CL and these analysts have mean estimates of 2008 and 2009 revenues of US$15.7 billion and US$16.8 billion respectively. For our analysis we have used US$15.5 billion in 2008, US$16.5 billion in 2009 and US$17.5 billion in 2010.

Profitability: We have used a flat EBITDA margin of 22.0% to 2010. Reuters has $CL‘s EBITD margin at 21.5% last year and 22.9% over the last five-years.

Capital Expenditure: We have assumed capital expenditures of US$600.0 million per annum moving forward.

Discount Rate: 8.0%.

Terminal Growth Rate: 3.0%.

By TheCrunchBlog, over 12 years ago

The boring details

All amounts in millions Figures
Enterprise Value: 40,198
Net Debt (Long-term borrowings less cash): 3,087
Equity Value: 31,807
Number of Shares Outstanding: 504,000,000
Calculated value per share: $75.96

Enterprise Value is the present value of the post-tax cash flows for a business into the future.

Calcuation of EV

Where:

  • C1, C2, C3 - the cash flow in period 1, 2, 3, ...
  • r - the discount rate

To capture the cash flows into the future a terminal value is calculated via a perpetuity calculation -
based on the final years forecast post-tax free cash flow.

Perpetuity

Where:

  • Cn - the cash flow in the final forecast period.
  • LTG - the long-term growth rate
  • r - the discount rate
  • g - the terminal growth rate

The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is used to determine the equity component in the discount rate.

CAPM model

Where:

  • rt - the risk free rate
  • t - the tax rate
  • B - the beta of the company
  • MRP - the Market Risk Premium

Valuecruncher uses an estimate of Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) to determine the discount rate in the calculation.