International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)
Discount cash flow analysis
Price history
Sensitivity matrix
-1% |
Discount Rate % 0% |
1% |
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-1% | $142.98 | $140.71 | $138.51 | |
Terminal Growth% | 0 | $143.71 | $141.42 | $139.19 |
+1% | $144.45 | $142.13 | $139.89 |
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 $292.41 (undervalued by 89.32%) - over 4 years ago
- SethWellbourne created a new valuation of $107.39 (overvalued by 16.6%) - almost 11 years ago
- geet011984 created a new valuation of $110.88 (overvalued by 5.12%) - over 11 years ago
- geet011984 created a new valuation of $110.88 (overvalued by 5.12%) - over 11 years ago
- GordonGekko created a new valuation of $108.42 (undervalued by 1.12%) - over 11 years ago
- SethWellbourne created a new valuation of $67.82 (overvalued by 28.25%) - almost 12 years ago
- Derek created a new valuation of $108.18 (undervalued by 29.4%) - over 12 years ago
- TheCrunchBlog created a new valuation of $130.55 (undervalued by 41.12%) - over 12 years ago
- GordonGekko created a new valuation of $109.17 (undervalued by 24.41%) - over 12 years ago
- TheCrunchBlog created a new valuation of $128.25 (undervalued by 7.39%) - over 12 years ago
- GordonGekko created a new valuation of $133.50 (undervalued by 14.63%) - over 12 years ago
- KiwiEMH created a new valuation of $131.42 (undervalued by 1.09%) - almost 13 years ago
- TheCrunchBlog created a new valuation of $141.42 (undervalued by 19.31%) - almost 13 years ago
Comments
The boring details
All amounts in millions | Figures |
Enterprise Value: | 231,261 |
Net Debt (Long-term borrowings less cash): | 19,128 |
Equity Value: | 162,798 |
Number of Shares Outstanding: | 1,373,000,000 |
Calculated value per share: | $141.42 |
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/ibm-still-looks-cheap-at-us130-a-share/
IBM grew revenues from US$91.4 billion in 2006 to US$98.8 billion in 2007 – 8% year-on-year growth. Our assumptions of revenues for the next three years are US$109.0 billion in 2008 growing to US$121.0 billion in 2010 – a 7% compound annual growth rate. We have projected EBITDA margins to grow from 20.0% in 2008 to 21.0% in 2010. We have used a terminal growth rate of 3%. We used a terminal capital expenditure number of US$5.75 billion. We have utilised a WACC (discount rate) of 9%.