Learn to value a US-listed company the way analysts do, for yourself. The workbench pulls the published numbers and the forecasts, you choose the multiples, and it shows you what your choices imply. Profitable companies are valued on earnings; companies with no profit yet on revenue, with a reality check on what today's price assumes. The range is yours, not ours.
Enter a US ticker (NYSE or Nasdaq). The company's latest annual figures are pulled from Financial Modeling Prep using your own free data key, which stays on this device.
The main method is the one most professional analysts use: next year's expected figure multiplied by a multiple. The multiple is the whole judgement, so you choose it. Nothing is set until you set it; each slider starts grey.
A revenue multiple only makes sense if the company eventually earns a profit. Say what profit margin you think it can reach once mature, and the tool turns today's price into the revenue the company would need, so you can compare it with the forecast.
A multiple is a shortcut. The cash flow model asks what the business is worth from first principles and usually gives a lower, wider answer for fast-growing companies. Use it to see what your multiple is assuming.
Pulled figures are outlined in blue. Anything you edit becomes yours. Report figures are in millions of US dollars.
Switch on the methods that fit the company. A loss-making company with no dividend will only suit some of them, and that is itself a finding. Amber fields hold an illustrative default you have not yet made your own.
The sell-side method. Driven by the lens, the expected-figure box and the two multiple sliders above; the value carried into the table is the midpoint of your two multiples.
Values the company as the cash it can generate over ten years plus a terminal value, discounted back to today. The growth and return sliders above write into this section.
Only meaningful for companies with a steady, growing dividend.
What is left for shareholders if the balance sheet were settled today. Useful for banks, property and holding companies; weak for software or brands.
Applies a multiple to the company's own numbers. Pulled multiples are the company's own five-year averages; a peer average is often the better argument, so consider replacing them.
Third-party opinion, usually on a 12-month horizon, and it tends to follow the share price rather than lead it. Not pulled automatically; copy it from your broker if you want it, and record where it came from. It is kept out of the range at the top.
The methods will disagree. That gap is information: it tells you which assumptions the value depends on. Weight the methods by how well they fit this company.
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Before you write a number down anywhere, answer these in your own words.
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