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2. Company Fundamentals
2.1 Competitiveness
| Metric |
Value |
| Operating Margins |
44.25% |
| Profit Margins |
31.62% |
| Return on Assets |
13.56% |
| Free Float |
0.71B |
| Dividend Yield |
2.76% |
| Short Int % Utilisation |
1.48% |
2.2 Growth
| Metric |
Value |
| Revenue Growth |
9.4% |
| Free Cash Flow |
5.95B |
| EBITDA |
17.11 (Ratio) |
| Enterprise Value |
254.46B |
| EV/Revenue |
9.27 |
| EV/EBITDA |
17.11 |
Revenue growth of 9.4% indicates steady, moderate expansion.
2.3 Management
| Role |
Metric |
| Consensus Rating |
N/A |
2.4 Return
| Metric |
Value |
| Expected Return (Ann.)* |
-8.14% |
| Risk / Std Dev (Ann.)* |
18.00% |
| 1-Year Price Return* |
-9.54% |
Latest Market Data (as of 2026-08-14, US Eastern time):
| Metric |
Value |
| Last Price |
$272.83 |
| 52-Week Range |
$260.96 – $341.75 |
| Observation Count |
251 trading days |
The return and risk statistics use daily adjusted closes from the retrieved one-year series and annualise daily moments using 252 trading days. The last price is the latest regular-market price reported for the stated date. Source: Yahoo Finance market data.
2.5 FCFF DCF Valuation
Valuation basis: This research model follows a five-year, unlevered FCFF DCF. It starts from reported annual operating inputs, forecasts revenue and operating cash conversion under an explicit mechanical policy, discounts FCFF at WACC, applies a Gordon-growth terminal value, and bridges enterprise value to an indicative common-equity value per share. It is an analytical estimate rather than a recommendation or personalised target price.
Step 1 — Forecast Operating Profit and NOPAT
| Reported operating input |
Value |
| Revenue |
$26.89B |
| Prior annual revenue |
$25.92B |
| EBIT |
$12.48B |
| Tax rate |
21.42% |
| NOPAT = EBIT × (1 − tax rate) |
$9.81B |
| Forecast start-growth basis |
3.72% |
| Forecast policy |
latest reported annual revenue growth, bounded to -10.00% / 15.00% |
Step 2 — Calculate FCFF
| Current FCFF building block |
Value |
| NOPAT |
$9.81B |
| Add: depreciation & amortisation |
$2.20B |
| Less: capital expenditure |
-$3.37B |
| Less/(add): working-capital cash-flow movement |
$106.00M |
| Current unlevered FCFF |
$8.75B |
Explicit FCFF forecast
| Forecast year |
Revenue growth |
NOPAT |
D&A |
Capex |
Change in NWC |
FCFF |
Present value |
| 1 |
3.72% |
$10.17B |
$2.28B |
-$3.49B |
$109.95M |
$9.07B |
$8.81B |
| 2 |
3.42% |
$10.52B |
$2.36B |
-$3.30B |
$113.70M |
$9.69B |
$8.89B |
| 3 |
3.11% |
$10.85B |
$2.43B |
-$3.08B |
$117.24M |
$10.32B |
$8.93B |
| 4 |
2.81% |
$11.15B |
$2.50B |
-$2.83B |
$120.53M |
$10.94B |
$8.93B |
| 5 |
2.50% |
$11.43B |
$2.56B |
-$2.56B |
$123.54M |
$11.55B |
$8.90B |
Step 3 — Determine the Discount Rate (WACC)
| WACC input |
Value |
| Risk-free rate |
4.71% |
| Equity risk premium assumption |
5.50% |
| Beta |
0.42 |
| Cost of equity |
7.02% |
| Pre-tax cost of debt |
2.96% |
| WACC |
5.97% |
| WACC validation |
requires assumption review |
Step 4 — Estimate Terminal Value
| Terminal-value input |
Value |
| Perpetuity growth rate |
2.50% |
| Terminal value |
$341.49B |
| Implied terminal EV / EBITDA |
19.96x |
| Terminal value as % of enterprise value |
85.18% |
Step 5 — Discount Cash Flows to Enterprise Value
| Enterprise-value component |
Value |
| Present value of explicit FCFF |
$44.46B |
| Present value of terminal value |
$255.57B |
| Indicated enterprise value |
$300.03B |
| Discounting convention |
mid-year for explicit FCFF; terminal value discounted at year-end five |
Step 6 — Convert Enterprise Value to Equity Value
| Equity bridge |
Value |
| Indicated enterprise value |
$300.03B |
| Less: gross interest-bearing debt |
$54.81B |
| Add: cash and equivalents |
$774.00M |
| Add: affiliate investments |
$0.00 |
| Less: minority interests |
$0.00 |
| Indicated common equity value |
$245.99B |
Step 7 — Calculate Indicative Value Per Share
| Per-share output |
Value |
| Shares used |
716,400,000.00 |
| Share-count basis |
reported diluted weighted-average shares |
| Current market price |
$268.72 |
| DCF indicative value per share |
$343.37 |
| Indicative value vs. market price |
27.78% |
Model Integrity Checks
| Check |
Result |
| Perpetuity growth is below the risk-free rate |
pass |
| Perpetuity growth is below WACC |
pass |
| WACC is within the configured operating-company range |
review required |
| Terminal-year FCFF is positive |
pass |
| Terminal capex converges to D&A |
pass |
| Terminal-value concentration |
within review band |
| Implied price differs from spot by more than 30% |
within review band |
2.6 Investor-Style Research Screen
| Educational screen |
Result |
| Buffett-inspired cash-quality checks |
3/4 evidenced checks |
| Lynch-inspired balance-and-growth checks |
3/4 evidenced checks |