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Bullboard - Stock Discussion Forum Diversified Royalty Corp T.DIV

Alternate Symbol(s):  BEVFF | T.DIV.DB.A

Diversified Royalty Corp. is a multi-royalty company. The Company is engaged in acquiring royalties from multi-location businesses and franchisors in North America. It owns Mr. Lube + Tires, AIR MILES, Sutton, Mr. Mikes, Nurse Next Door, Oxford Learning Centres, Stratus Building Solutions and BarBurrito trademarks. Mr. Lube + Tires is the quick lube service business in Canada, with locations... see more

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Diversified Royalty Corp > DIV could Be 48% Below Intrinsic Value.
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Post by kijiji on Aug 25, 2023 9:32am

DIV could Be 48% Below Intrinsic Value.

Key Insights

  • Diversified Royalty's estimated fair value is CA$5.39 based on 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity

  • Diversified Royalty is estimated to be 48% undervalued based on current share price of CA$2.81

  • Price target $3.99 which is 26% below our fair value estimate

Today we'll do a simple run through of a valuation method used to estimate the attractiveness of Diversified Royalty Corp. (TSE:DIV) as an investment opportunity by estimating the company's future cash flows and discounting them to their present value. Our analysis will employ the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) model. It may sound complicated, but actually it is quite simple!

We would caution that there are many ways of valuing a company and, like the DCF, each technique has advantages and disadvantages in certain scenarios. 

The Calculation

 

We are going to use a two-stage DCF model, which, as the name states, takes into account two stages of growth. The first stage is generally a higher growth period which levels off heading towards the terminal value, captured in the second 'steady growth' period. In the first stage we need to estimate the cash flows to the business over the next ten years. Where possible we use analyst estimates, but when these aren't available we extrapolate the previous free cash flow (FCF) from the last estimate or reported value. We assume companies with shrinking free cash flow will slow their rate of shrinkage, and that companies with growing free cash flow will see their growth rate slow, over this period. We do this to reflect that growth tends to slow more in the early years than it does in later years.

Generally we assume that a dollar today is more valuable than a dollar in the future, so we need to discount the sum of these future cash flows to arrive at a present value estimate:

10-year free cash flow (FCF) estimate

 

2024

2025

2026

2027

2028

2029

2030

2031

2032

2033

Levered FCF (CA$, Millions)

CA$39.9m

CA$41.7m

CA$45.6m

CA$48.0m

CA$49.9m

CA$51.5m

CA$52.9m

CA$54.3m

CA$55.6m

CA$56.8m

Growth Rate Estimate Source

Analyst x2

Analyst x2

Analyst x1

Analyst x1

Est @ 3.86%

Est @ 3.26%

Est @ 2.84%

Est @ 2.55%

Est @ 2.34%

Est @ 2.20%

Present Value (CA$, Millions) Discounted @ 7.9%

CA$37.0

CA$35.8

CA$36.3

CA$35.4

CA$34.1

CA$32.6

CA$31.1

CA$29.5

CA$28.0

CA$26.5

("Est" = FCF growth rate estimated by Simply Wall St)
Present Value of 10-year Cash Flow (PVCF) = CA$326m

After calculating the present value of future cash flows in the initial 10-year period, we need to calculate the Terminal Value, which accounts for all future cash flows beyond the first stage. For a number of reasons a very conservative growth rate is used that cannot exceed that of a country's GDP growth. In this case we have used the 5-year average of the 10-year government bond yield (1.9%) to estimate future growth. In the same way as with the 10-year 'growth' period, we discount future cash flows to today's value, using a cost of equity of 7.9%.

Terminal Value (TV)= FCF2033 × (1 + g) ÷ (r – g) = CA$57m× (1 + 1.9%) ÷ (7.9%– 1.9%) = CA$955m

Present Value of Terminal Value (PVTV)= TV / (1 + r)10= CA$955m÷ ( 1 + 7.9%)10= CA$446m

The total value, or equity value, is then the sum of the present value of the future cash flows, which in this case is CA$772m. In the final step we divide the equity value by the number of shares outstanding. Relative to the current share price of CA$2.8, the company appears quite undervalued at a 48% discount to where the stock price trades currently. Remember though, that this is just an approximate valuation, and like any complex formula - garbage in, garbage out.

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The Assumptions

The calculation above is very dependent on two assumptions. The first is the discount rate and the other is the cash flows. You don't have to agree with these inputs, I recommend redoing the calculations yourself and playing with them. The DCF also does not consider the possible cyclicality of an industry, or a company's future capital requirements, so it does not give a full picture of a company's potential performance. Given that we are looking at Diversified Royalty as potential shareholders, the cost of equity is used as the discount rate, rather than the cost of capital (or weighted average cost of capital, WACC) which accounts for debt. In this calculation we've used 7.9%, which is based on a levered beta of 1.211. Beta is a measure of a stock's volatility, compared to the market as a whole. We get our beta from the industry average beta of globally comparable companies, with an imposed limit between 0.8 and 2.0, which is a reasonable range for a stable business.

SWOT Analysis for Diversified Royalty

Strength

  • Debt is well covered by earnings.

  • Dividend is in the top 25% of dividend payers in the market.

Weakness

  • Earnings declined over the past year.

  • Shareholders have been diluted in the past year.

Opportunity

  • Annual earnings are forecast to grow faster than the Canadian market.

  • Trading below our estimate of fair value by more than 20%.

Threat

  • Debt is not well covered by operating cash flow.

  • Dividends are not covered by earnings.

  • Annual revenue is forecast to grow slower than the Canadian market.

Comment by nedstar71 on Aug 25, 2023 8:12pm
Looks like a computer generated report, the sort of trash that simplywallstreet site puts out.  Pay it no attention imo.
Comment by JayBanks on Aug 26, 2023 8:37am
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Comment by dogatcat on Sep 05, 2023 11:47am
You take the dividend every month like clockwork, and you just look at the price appreciation as a bonus.  As interest rates are now near the top of the cycle, you are going to see DIV move back into $3s.   I believe DIV is rated failry at $3.75 
Comment by nedstar71 on Sep 05, 2023 1:41pm
What price appreciation?  
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