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Intrinsic value
5 guides in Finabase Learn
- Discounted cash flow (DCF): a step-by-step valuation on Apple Build a DCF from free cash flow to value per share, with Apple’s fiscal 2025 numbers, terminal value, WACC, a sensitivity grid, a reverse DCF and the classic mistakes.
- Dividend discount model (DDM): the Gordon growth formula explained Value a stock from its dividends with the Gordon growth model and multi-stage DDM, see why it breaks for low-payout Apple, and where the model fits.
- Margin of safety: Benjamin Graham’s rule for valuation errors What a margin of safety is, how to calculate one, why valuations are ranges rather than points, and how DCF sensitivity and position sizing feed into it.
- Option moneyness: in, at and out of the money explained How to tell whether a call or put is in, at or out of the money, and how to split any option premium into intrinsic value and time value, with worked tables.
- Valuation methods: intrinsic, relative and asset-based compared The main ways analysts value a company — DCF, dividend models, multiples, asset-based and sum-of-the-parts — when each one fits, and how to triangulate them.
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