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DCF valuation

German: DCF-Bewertung

A valuation method that values a company as the sum of its discounted future free cash flows.

You forecast free cash flows for the coming years, estimate a terminal value for the period after, and discount everything back with the discount rate. The result is highly sensitive to assumptions – which is why professionals use scenarios and a margin of safety.