At the moment, one of the most highly voted features in Friends of SGXcafe is "Use various known methods to compute the intrinsic value of stocks". As much as I want to do it, it is not easy to compute the real "intrinsic" value of stocks, assuming it even exists. All methods that I have found require subjective opinions of the future. And often, small deviations in assumed values influence the results significantly. One popular way to overcome this is to acknowledge that the computed value would be simply an estimation and introduces some form of "margin of safety" to prevent overestimation. Another major issue is determining when will the market ever reflect this "intrinsic" value in the stock price, assuming it will ever. In a year? 5 years? 10 years? Almost ......