Investors In Builders FirstSource Inc (BLDR) Are Paying Above The Intrinsic Value
Does the share price for Builders FirstSource Inc (NASDAQ:BLDR) reflect it’s really worth? Today, I will calculate the stock’s intrinsic value using the discounted cash flow (DCF) method. Anyone interested in learning a bit more about intrinsic value should have a read of the Simply Wall St analysis model. If you are reading this after November 2017 then I highly recommend you check out the latest calculation for Builders FirstSource here.
Is BLDR fairly valued?
I’ve used the 2-stage growth model, which simply means we take in account two stages of company’s growth. In the initial period the company may have a higher growth rate and the second stage is usually assumed to have perpetual stable growth rate. To start off, I took the analyst consensus estimates of BLDR’s levered free cash flow (FCF) over the next five years and discounted these figures at the cost of equity of 17.53%. When estimates weren’t available, I’ve extrapolated the average annual growth rate over the previous five years, capped at a reasonable level. This resulted in a present value of 5-year cash flow of $609M. Keen to know how I arrived at this number? Check out our detailed analysis here.
Above is a visual representation of how BLDR’s top and bottom lines are expected to move going forward, which should give you an idea of BLDR’s outlook. Now we need to determine the terminal value, which accounts for all the future cash flows after the five years. I think it’s suitable to use the 10-year government bond rate of 2.8% as the stable growth rate, which is rightly below GDP growth, but more towards the conservative side. After discounting the terminal value back five years, the present value becomes $840M.
The total value, or equity value, is then the sum of the present value of the cash flows, which in this case is $1,449M. To get the intrinsic value per share, we divide this by the total number of shares outstanding. This results in an intrinsic value of $12.86, which, compared to the current share price of $17.44, we see that Builders FirstSource is quite expensive and not available at a discount at this time.
Next Steps:
Valuation is only one side of the coin in terms of building your investment thesis, and it shouldn’t be the only metric you look at when researching a company. What is the reason for the share price to differ from the intrinsic value? For BLDR, I’ve put together three important aspects you should look at:
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The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned.
