Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT)
Discount cash flow analysis
Price history
Sensitivity matrix
-1% |
Discount Rate % 0% |
1% |
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-1% | $52.34 | $51.25 | $50.19 | |
Terminal Growth% | 0 | $52.82 | $51.71 | $50.64 |
+1% | $53.30 | $52.18 | $51.09 |
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 $62.99 (overvalued by 12.74%) - over 4 years ago
- GeraldRoberson created a new valuation of $53.31 (overvalued by 1.82%) - almost 10 years ago
- ssoules created a new valuation of $142.71 (undervalued by 178.73%) - over 10 years ago
- hafizalshaban created a new valuation of $33.19 (overvalued by 38.66%) - almost 11 years ago
- hafizalshaban created a new valuation of $33.19 (overvalued by 38.66%) - almost 11 years ago
- GordonGekko created a new valuation of $51.50 (overvalued by 2.72%) - 11 years ago
- michaeljk2 created a new valuation of $50.99 (undervalued by 2.64%) - over 11 years ago
- michaeljk2 created a new valuation of $77.32 (undervalued by 55.64%) - over 11 years ago
- michaeljk2 created a new valuation of $194.44 (undervalued by 291.38%) - over 11 years ago
- michaeljk2 created a new valuation of $138.21 (undervalued by 178.2%) - over 11 years ago
- jcook62 created a new valuation of $79.21 (undervalued by 61.39%) - over 11 years ago
- germas88 created a new valuation of $55.01 (undervalued by 13.4%) - almost 12 years ago
- SethWellbourne created a new valuation of $43.60 (overvalued by 15.77%) - almost 12 years ago
- dweis created a new valuation of $39.90 (overvalued by 24.32%) - over 12 years ago
- TheCrunchBlog created a new valuation of $54.88 (overvalued by 6.75%) - over 12 years ago
- Diegoengel created a new valuation of $51.57 (overvalued by 10.23%) - over 12 years ago
- GordonGekko created a new valuation of $59.35 (undervalued by 5.6%) - almost 13 years ago
- TheCrunchBlog created a new valuation of $51.71 (overvalued by 7.99%) - almost 13 years ago
Comments
The boring details
All amounts in millions | Figures |
Enterprise Value: | 323,799 |
Net Debt (Long-term borrowings less cash): | 39,102 |
Equity Value: | 221,637 |
Number of Shares Outstanding: | 3,943,000,000 |
Calculated value per share: | $51.71 |
Enterprise Value is the present value of the post-tax cash flows for a business into the future.

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.

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.

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.
This valuation is part of this blog post:
http://blog.valuecruncher.com/2008/07/a-dcf-valuation-of-wal-mart-wmt/
Wal-Mart grew revenues from US$284.3 billion in 2005 to US$378.8 billion in 2008 – a 10% compound annual growth rate. Our assumptions of revenues for the next three years are US$405.0 billion in 2009 growing to US$465.0 billion in 2011 – a 7% compound annual growth rate. We have projected EBITDA margins to be flat at 7.5%. We have used a terminal growth rate of 3.5%. We calculated this terminal growth rate based on year three growth of 6.9% dropping to a 3% stable growth rate by year 10. We used a terminal capital expenditure number of US$14.5 billion. We have used a WACC (discount rate) of 8%.