The DCF Model Explained - How The Pros Value Stocks/Businesses

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  • čas přidán 4. 11. 2021
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Komentáře • 390

  • @ThePlainBagel
    @ThePlainBagel  Před 2 lety +13

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    • @vidhitnaik2386
      @vidhitnaik2386 Před 2 lety

      Thank you so much for your content!! Yours and Patrick’s channel among a few others inspired me to register for my CFA. I’m currently sitting my CFA level 1 in feb!
      - ps I’m an engineering student lol so no finance background. I just seem to love it thanks to channels like yours! 😌

    • @eliteffsquadron9932
      @eliteffsquadron9932 Před 2 lety

      Pls make a detailed video on how to get a stocks value

    • @andrewtaylor3030
      @andrewtaylor3030 Před 2 lety

      📌Thanks for the video,investment is the key,you can be rich like these millionaires by working your ass out,most of them don’t work upto 3hrs everyday.They earn passively from their investments which most minimum wage earners don’t do,life is sweet when you have different sources of income,invest in something to expand your earning

    • @fuhat1040
      @fuhat1040 Před 2 lety

      There is guy trying to be you.

    • @larsvandorp1298
      @larsvandorp1298 Před 2 lety

      Some examples would be great since I am not sure about the once I made

  • @radumurzea6112
    @radumurzea6112 Před 2 lety +793

    I’ve been following your channel for a very long time (almost 2 years I think), it’s the first comment I ever leave here. And I do it only to say this: PLEASE make another video with a full example of applying DCF. It doesn’t matter if it ends up being 1 hour long, I would absolutely watch it multiple times in order to fully grasp DCF (which can be quite complicated). Thank you.

  • @sheefo6217
    @sheefo6217 Před 2 lety +58

    learned this ad nauseam in university 6 years ago, and it all looks clean and scientific but then once they make you do it yourself and you go through it you realize just how subjective it really is. Finicking a tiny bit with your growth rates and wacc can essentially make any stock a buy or sell, and once I got access to a bloomberg terminal you can see that kind of playing out with analyst predictions. It can really get whacky when you are valuing companies that are not profitable yet, and some unique industries like gold mining that have a negative terminal growth rate, or crypto and tech where you can't really quantify how impactful the product will be and thus how exponential their growth will be. It just added another notch to index investing in my book over trying to stock pick.

    • @perzonne6302
      @perzonne6302 Před 2 lety +5

      lol sounds useless then

    • @victorgbs
      @victorgbs Před 2 lety +4

      @@perzonne6302 like most attempts at stock picking, even if trying to be rational about it. Join the Bogleheads instead! One of us! One of us!

    • @OopsFailedArt
      @OopsFailedArt Před 2 lety +3

      @@perzonne6302 for most of us yes. There are extremely talented people who are very good at making the right assumptions. Problem is, and this will shock you, they tend to not reveal their research. I have had the pleasure of knowing someone that was truly gifted here but the amount of research she put in for a single stock was mind blowing. As a result, she normally held no more than 5 companies which would be in advisable for anyone without her skill level

    • @poisonpotato1
      @poisonpotato1 Před 2 lety +1

      Can always use the tried and true engineer's method of applying a safety factor to round off assumptions

    • @sadikinjeryon9082
      @sadikinjeryon9082 Před rokem

      One most important prequisite to use DCF model in stock valuation is: the stability and consistency of company growth. If the company doesn't have those things, DCF is useless. Also, use it only for 3 years forward estimate, no longer than that. Predicting the not-so-far future of economy, industry and company performance is not easy job (because we never know exactly what will happen in the future), and it will be far more difficult if we try to predict longer timeframe (more than 3 years ahead).

  • @theMixElite
    @theMixElite Před 2 lety +80

    I was literally 1 hour before this video went out, trying to find out good explanation of DCF. Wow.

  • @TheLadyFool
    @TheLadyFool Před 2 lety +23

    Boy, I wish I'd had this video during my finance class - I recognized most of the components, but having you break the algebra into pieces and reminding us what it actually represents was extremely helpful!

  • @SalchichaStudios
    @SalchichaStudios Před 2 lety +26

    Please go super in depth in a part 2. Love what you do man

  • @ASult-qr5ib
    @ASult-qr5ib Před 2 lety +73

    I'd love to see more details! I actually would love to see an example where calculations are done step by step to see how the value of a company is estimated, even if the company is fictitious like the example here.
    great video as usual!

    • @seventoejoe3307
      @seventoejoe3307 Před 2 lety +5

      Second this! It's very difficult finding an understandable DCF instruction on the web. I read through the article on investopedia and was still like... Uhh what did I just read again? This is much more clear cut.

    • @cedricdellafaille1361
      @cedricdellafaille1361 Před 2 lety +1

      third on this! the explanation is really well done but i need some examples to fully understand

    • @gabriel_wedman
      @gabriel_wedman Před 2 lety +1

      fourth on this!

  • @ammt1999
    @ammt1999 Před 2 lety +96

    One of the best videos you ever made! Make more videos like this teaching how to apply theory while adding details about what's industry standards and your own experience, really useful!

  • @midimusicforever
    @midimusicforever Před 2 lety +48

    Going through the details could definitely be interesting, but it would be even more interesting to see you discuss how to actually do those estimates well. That's the important part.

  • @Hyperpandas
    @Hyperpandas Před 2 lety +40

    There is an interest in you going through a step by step example and maybe diving into the details (1:40). Signed, probably everyone who watches your videos. 😀
    PS: Only if you want to. This video is great as it is too.

  • @massdestroyer5134
    @massdestroyer5134 Před 2 lety +41

    This was amazing. I’m a finance and accounting major and a deeper dive into the dcf would be awesome. The way you explained it made it easy to grasp. Love the vids

    • @thelawenforcerhd9654
      @thelawenforcerhd9654 Před 2 lety

      You do understand that if you add a single random variable to the analysis it is COMPLETELY WORTHLESS? Just throwing that out there. Sorry to interrupt your fanboying.

    • @waveril5167
      @waveril5167 Před 8 měsíci

      Then don't put random numbers in it. Investors have used this method for years and it helps. If you put random numbers in it, you can just guess. @@thelawenforcerhd9654

  • @ricseeds4835
    @ricseeds4835 Před 2 lety +5

    I don't know if he already did but this definitely requires a hands-on step-by-step example for a real company using their financial statements.

  • @shreyanpurwar1085
    @shreyanpurwar1085 Před 2 lety +8

    This is probably the best video regarding DCF I have ever seen. Beautifully explained. But like the other comments, it would be amazing if you could do a video applying the DCF model to an actual company, referencing the concepts you made in this video to help clear some minor confusions.

  • @davidwalsh9807
    @davidwalsh9807 Před 2 lety +11

    Yes please Richard, I would love to see a run through- that would be super interesting

  • @David.Marquez
    @David.Marquez Před 2 lety +7

    I think It's great how a lot of investors have their own variations and principles on how they do DCF, great to see a Plain Bagel video on it!

  • @danielcarvalhobica630
    @danielcarvalhobica630 Před 2 lety +4

    You perfectly summarised in a clear way half of a master course I'm taking... wow

  • @maxmassetti2392
    @maxmassetti2392 Před 2 lety +80

    Analyst: *does DCF*
    Analyst: *comes to the same realisation that everything in the market is overvalued*

    • @Jr2728
      @Jr2728 Před 2 lety +2

      Damn right😂🤣😂🤣

    • @tiendoan1333
      @tiendoan1333 Před 2 lety

      So underrated

    • @Marque734
      @Marque734 Před 2 lety +1

      maybe your analyst uses a too high RRR or looks at the wrong stocks

    • @ardendba
      @ardendba Před 2 lety

      Low interest rate could be the reason
      the required return from stock market is much lower than before since 10 years treasury yield is only like 1.7%
      As long as your return from marketable security is higher than 1.7%, the investment makes sense.
      your only opportunity cost would be missing out other securities which provide higher returns

    • @Jr2728
      @Jr2728 Před 2 lety

      @@ardendba but nobody wants higher interest rates

  • @petterromano3686
    @petterromano3686 Před 2 lety +8

    Definitely do more videos like this. Especially as a finance and accounting major, I’d love to see more

  • @richardpyo4426
    @richardpyo4426 Před 2 lety +4

    Nice video Richard. Would love to see these more advanced financial concepts in the future too!

  • @JackDuffley
    @JackDuffley Před 2 lety +127

    No, Richard. Everyone knows that valuing stocks is best done by communicating with the moon gods and asking them where the rocket ship should land 🚀🌕

    • @ThePlainBagel
      @ThePlainBagel  Před 2 lety +108

      Don't worry, I cover that in the next piece, "Shamanistic rituals and sacrificial practices for getting gains,"

    • @johnterry5954
      @johnterry5954 Před 2 lety +5

      @@ThePlainBagel I’ll be eagerly waiting for this ☝️

    • @karlhoffam3630
      @karlhoffam3630 Před 2 lety

      Hi John

    • @andyvasist418
      @andyvasist418 Před rokem

      Hi karl

  • @dfresh2989
    @dfresh2989 Před rokem

    Nice job! I just learned all this in a masters level securities valuation class. We went through a lot of detail into each of these, but you made it really simple and easy to understand. Thanks

  • @dmitriytimchuk771
    @dmitriytimchuk771 Před 2 lety +2

    This vid went out almost the exact time I started thinking of finding a good educational material on calculating a stock price, sometimes I feel like I live in the matrix

  • @Windschutzscheibe
    @Windschutzscheibe Před rokem

    You've explained in under 15 minutes what my professors couldn't under a whole semester. Much appreciated. It's easy to get lost in the small complex steps of calculating the estimates, and by the end you don't even remember why you are doing this in the first place. The typical example of the tree and the forest. It's also worrying how this pattern is recurrant in my other subjects as well, where almost no emphasis is placed on the purpose of things, but the theory and technical background is overemphasized, and the technical part is what's asked almost exclusively in the exams as well...

  • @robertwright8844
    @robertwright8844 Před 2 lety +4

    Yes, I'd love to see a full example worked in detail. Thanks for the video!

  • @danienishanov738
    @danienishanov738 Před 2 lety

    A second video with a full example is crucial, practice is everything, love your channel and in any case thank you for this video

  • @triple_gem_shining
    @triple_gem_shining Před 2 lety

    Your channel is amazing. Technical knowledge presented concisely and clearly. Thank you!!!

  • @johneberle5814
    @johneberle5814 Před 2 lety

    This is exactly what I needed and I would love a deeper dive in a second video!

  • @adrumwhisperer
    @adrumwhisperer Před 2 lety +4

    you just clearly and concisely summarized 2 quarters of college investing/corporate finance courses in under 15min. Good job, Mr. Bagel! Best video, yet!

  • @investinglens
    @investinglens Před 2 lety +1

    Discounted Cash flow model is a must know for any investor, Love the in depth video format!

  • @ignazlangeslagvanasselen4940

    your voice is amazing to listen to I wouldn't mind a 1 hour long video further delving into the dcf model or other ways to value a company

  • @MountainFinance
    @MountainFinance Před 2 lety

    Great video. I think a lot of your audience will really appreciate a glimpse into the DCF.

  • @giuseppeo77
    @giuseppeo77 Před 2 lety +2

    Great video Richard! Yes! Please bring on the example video. Keep up the good work and thank you!

  • @selwynparker5793
    @selwynparker5793 Před 2 lety

    A lot to take in even after studying this stuff over 22 years ago. A great helpful refresher. I would like more on valuation of assests/equities.

  • @Fir3Chi3f
    @Fir3Chi3f Před 2 lety +2

    This is so much more complicated that I anticipated

  • @InvestorCenter
    @InvestorCenter Před 2 lety +2

    Great to see someone on CZcams teaching fundamentals on investing

  • @vivekmenon4118
    @vivekmenon4118 Před rokem

    Thanks for the video. A very easy to understand step by step introduction & walkthrough of DCF.

  • @MyFinancialFocus
    @MyFinancialFocus Před 2 lety +53

    Everyone knows the only real way to value a business is by measuring how many short sellers are shorting the stock and then going to Wall Street bets to hype it up so it can be short squeezed.

    • @davidhunter1429
      @davidhunter1429 Před 2 lety

      lmao, I laughed so hard.

    • @selwynparker5793
      @selwynparker5793 Před 2 lety

      I am guessing You must be very young in the world of finance.

    • @karlhoffam3630
      @karlhoffam3630 Před 2 lety +1

      Hello Mr. Parker

    • @karlhoffam3630
      @karlhoffam3630 Před 2 lety +1

      I really wish to chat with you privately , you seems and sound learned and educated .
      Can I get a guide from you ..?

    • @Adrik808
      @Adrik808 Před 2 lety +1

      @@selwynparker5793 I'm guessing you can't spot sarcasm

  • @jaypunekar590
    @jaypunekar590 Před 2 lety +6

    A detailed explaination of DCF model would be really helpful. Please make a second video. BTW, Love your content! Keep it up!

  • @kayak2hell
    @kayak2hell Před 2 lety +4

    Thanks for appreciating that your audience has different levels of education, understanding, and interest in personal finance. Kudos for breaking down a more technical subject in a way that doesn't alienate any segment of your audience.

  • @chazigo3106
    @chazigo3106 Před 2 lety +1

    Please Please Please! Make a thorough explanation video of a DCF. I love the way you break things down and that video would SERIOUSLY help me! Much love.

  • @richardye9805
    @richardye9805 Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for the video Richard, I loved it. I would also like to see a more detailed example!

  • @MrMineHeads.
    @MrMineHeads. Před 2 lety +2

    Loved this video and I want to see more on this topic!
    There's also the Five Factor Model for determining return to equity, but Ben Felix can explain that 😉

  • @tomaszvinys2389
    @tomaszvinys2389 Před 2 lety +1

    Hi, Richard!
    Thank you for a great video. Indeed you have a lot of experience and you're able to explain these formulas in a way that's entertaining and understandable. I'm definitely waiting for more such series.
    Oh, and yes - a real world example would make such explanations totally perfect :)

  • @Marque734
    @Marque734 Před 2 lety

    That's a very clear explanation. Some are very mechanical do this, do that and never explain why. Then I read Pr. Damodaran papers that explain in detail why you use this value and that value but don't explain how you actually do it.
    You hit the golden middle, thanks!

  • @YuriZhylyuk
    @YuriZhylyuk Před 2 lety +3

    Thank you for another interesting video. Walk through of DCF calculation using financial reports from some publicly available data source (like yahoo finance, etc.) would be greatly appreciated.

  • @howardhuynh2336
    @howardhuynh2336 Před 2 lety +1

    Great video! I think the video going through an example would be great

  • @vladpruna95
    @vladpruna95 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Hey Richard, I'm still waiting and hoping for a more in depth guide/example of the DCF model, it would be very helpful and much appreciated. Please keep up the good work, your channel is great!

  • @eeerish
    @eeerish Před 2 lety +2

    Great one Richard! Would love to see a more in depth drill down of the model with an example, would be very helpfull. Thanks!

  • @Eveningredening
    @Eveningredening Před rokem

    I want to express my interest in that more detailed second video. Much love to you, bagel.

  • @ZKaiLe
    @ZKaiLe Před 2 lety

    Definitely the best explaination of DCF all over the tube

  • @carlaboujawdeh
    @carlaboujawdeh Před 2 lety

    love you videos and yes PLEASE make another video with a full example of applying DCF

  • @justinbeghly1435
    @justinbeghly1435 Před 2 lety

    Really great explanation

  • @miguelmedero3701
    @miguelmedero3701 Před 2 lety

    @The Plain Bagel: great video Richard 👍. Good didactic and entertaining videos always. Definitely, a second video on this subject please !! 🙏

  • @DannixX1000
    @DannixX1000 Před 2 lety

    Yessss, more detail please!

  • @sanchitcop19
    @sanchitcop19 Před rokem

    The most important thing I've learnt from this video as that I don't care about evaluating individual stocks as much as I thought I did and should probably stick to ETFs

  • @Jay-tv8nk
    @Jay-tv8nk Před 2 lety

    It would be great for you to do a bit of a series on the different parts of DCF! I would 100% watch that.

  • @virulabeygunawardane5428

    Loved the video! Would be great to see an in-depth analysis of the DCF model in your future videos!

  • @RoamingBrown
    @RoamingBrown Před 2 lety

    This was an awesome vid! Hope to see you go more in depth sometime

  • @yeehaw5741
    @yeehaw5741 Před 2 lety

    holy hell, someone else made a dcf video just a couple hours before yours, and i was like "damn cant wait till The plain bagel comes up with a video about dcf" and you read my mind !

  • @finnschroder2499
    @finnschroder2499 Před 2 lety +1

    I had to do a DCF Valuation for a university project last week😅
    This video would’ve been enormously helpful 😩

  • @calumshaw2716
    @calumshaw2716 Před 2 lety

    Great video! Would love to see the full version

  • @ohigetjokes
    @ohigetjokes Před 2 lety

    That was awesome thanks!

  • @Roarpian
    @Roarpian Před 2 lety

    Excellent work! I look forward to an example video

  • @JustinRothberg
    @JustinRothberg Před rokem

    Yes. Step by step please. Been trying to figure this out for quite awhile and always get lost somewhere.

  • @CaseyBurnsInvesting
    @CaseyBurnsInvesting Před 2 lety

    Demystifying value investing. Thanks!

  • @neilcampbell5963
    @neilcampbell5963 Před rokem

    Yes 2nd more in depth video please this was absolutely superb!

  • @juselara02
    @juselara02 Před 2 lety

    The plain bagel called me a pro 😍. Amazing explanation!

  • @Wdiaz_design
    @Wdiaz_design Před 2 lety

    Amazing video!

  • @graemepederson4661
    @graemepederson4661 Před 2 lety +5

    Hey, this will be my first comment on your channel. I love your stuff and the more complicated topics you explain really well. It sets you apart from other channels in finance and i would absolutely love to see more like this from you in the future. Great video and thanks for making all of these.

  • @jorge5213
    @jorge5213 Před 2 lety

    Great video !!

  • @hectorbetancourt2854
    @hectorbetancourt2854 Před 2 lety

    A step by step would be great! Nice vid my guy

  • @chef_fukushima
    @chef_fukushima Před 2 lety +1

    Yes please! Deep dive!

  • @giovannip8600
    @giovannip8600 Před 2 lety

    Lovely video!

  • @Roan-xj1mg
    @Roan-xj1mg Před 2 lety

    Yes, please do a second one

  • @puneetgrover6468
    @puneetgrover6468 Před 2 lety

    Hey, thanks for the knowledge, need a follow up detailed video.

  • @lenkagamine088
    @lenkagamine088 Před 2 lety

    Yes I definitely want a step by step videoooo going deeper

  • @frederick5069
    @frederick5069 Před 6 měsíci

    Amazing content

  • @emquh4074
    @emquh4074 Před 2 lety

    God I love this channel! Commenting to add to a shared excitement for your follow up video

  • @DavidDias0
    @DavidDias0 Před 2 lety

    Please give us more!

  • @FinancialShinanigan
    @FinancialShinanigan Před 2 lety +2

    More helpful than the finance course I paid thousands of $ for

  • @heshanpalliyaguruge6333

    PLEASE DO STEP BY STEP SIR. As a young finance nerd, I am very keen. I take lots of inspiration from you and Dr. Damodaran

  • @travelchimps6637
    @travelchimps6637 Před 2 lety

    Another video on this topic with an actual stock would be amazing. 🤩

  • @erchelo
    @erchelo Před 2 lety

    As always excelent video Richard, I would love if you could give us some examples, love ya

  • @SebastianLopez-nh1rr
    @SebastianLopez-nh1rr Před 2 lety +1

    I’m interested in an example! 👏🏻

  • @SuperJohnep
    @SuperJohnep Před 2 lety +2

    Thank you for making this video even though my eyes began to cross about halfway through 😂

  • @abdullaal-kuwari314
    @abdullaal-kuwari314 Před 2 lety

    Would like to see another video with details of the DCF model :)

  • @burrisewell2227
    @burrisewell2227 Před 2 lety

    Absolutely do the example for the DCF!!!

  • @feripnooi
    @feripnooi Před 4 měsíci

    This video made me realize just how outrageous those investment Ti kT oks and internet gurus really are when they talk about investment being easy. It really is a highly-technical job with years of experience required and not something you can do by finding silly "patterns" on a graph in your bedroom. Thank you Bagel, for opening my eyes.

  • @d_15745
    @d_15745 Před 2 lety

    Yes! We need a more in-depth DCF vid please!

  • @cirodirosa6752
    @cirodirosa6752 Před 2 lety +2

    Thank you!
    Please go through an example!
    I think Tesla would be a striking example.

  • @nrpbrown
    @nrpbrown Před 2 lety

    Nice video!

  • @mark.p9824
    @mark.p9824 Před 2 lety

    Yes, we do want a deep dive into the DCF model :-)

  • @Robin99910
    @Robin99910 Před 2 lety

    You should include a pro or expert series for mainly students 🔥

  • @maxxe2
    @maxxe2 Před 2 lety

    Great video! I'll need to watch it a few more times sober before I really understand what you're saying lol

  • @nevilleedwards3237
    @nevilleedwards3237 Před 2 lety

    Thank you

  • @percevalzinzin5983
    @percevalzinzin5983 Před rokem

    Nice vid again!
    Best method to evaluate Plain Bagel: Discounted Cash... Flour :-)

  • @Jxene
    @Jxene Před 2 lety

    detailed dcf would be much appriciated

  • @marqkamamerg9019
    @marqkamamerg9019 Před 2 lety

    Thanks!

  • @Axel-xj8rl
    @Axel-xj8rl Před 2 lety

    Please make a follow-up! Appreciate this vid so much.

  • @Tzannisss
    @Tzannisss Před 2 lety

    I think everyone wants to see that second more in-depth video, including me!