Matthew shares with us a simple and important concept to invest more safely:
The intrinsic value of a company could be calculated base on our estimations of various aspects of the business, both tangible and intangible. Hence one would require to look at both qualitative and quantitative aspects of the business in order to give a more holistic valuation of a company.
Company valuation can be done using 2 broad types of valuation models:
- absolute valuation; and
- relative valuation.
Absolute valuation is a valuation method that give you an absolute value to compare against the current market price. Absolute valuation method is broadly termed as a discounted “cash flow” method. The different models calculates future cash flows -- dividend (Discounted Dividend Model), free cash flow (Discounted Free Cash Flow Model), operating cash flow (Discounted Operating Cash Flow Model), residual income (Discounted Residual Income Model), etc -- and discount these future values to present value......
