Alphabet (GOOGL) Fair Value & DCF
Score
GOOGL fair value $289.92. Price $291.88. Price is about fair value.
Worked example
Cash-flow value. Starting free cash flow is $11.79 a share. Year 1 is the first earnings forecast, so it has no growth rate of its own. The forecast then reaches 13.47%, and that pace fades in a straight line to 3% terminal growth by year 10. The discount rate is 11.04% (beta 1.23). It is beta-adjusted and capped at 12%. The cash-flow value is $265.42 a share.
Earnings value. Next-twelve-months earnings per share of $13.89 times 22.64 is $314.42. The peer group is Communication Services, 25 companies worth at least $10 billion. Peer median 19.1. Own 10-year median 26.2. The multiple used is the average of the two, kept between 8 and 30, which is 22.64.
Fair value is the average of the two, $289.92. The price is $291.88, which is 0.7% above fair value.