Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV)

Discount cash flow analysis

Buy Undervalued by 68.8%

5% margin of safety What's this?

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How does this work?

This is an interactive analyst report for Southwest Airlines Co., based on a discounted cash flow valuation approach.

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What will the revenues be in the future?

Growth beyond year three is driven by the terminal growth rate.

Price history

Sensitivity matrix

   
-1% 		Discount Rate %
0%
1%
  -1% $13.90 $13.69 $13.48
Terminal Growth% 0 $13.97 $13.76 $13.56
  +1% $14.05 $13.84 $13.63

How does a change in discount rate or terminal growth affect valuation?

This table shows the sensitivity of the valuation to two key variables - the discount rate and the terminal growth rate

Valuations and comments

  • Valuecruncher created a new valuation of $47.84 (undervalued by 486.99%) - 15 hours ago
  • jim1023 created a new valuation of $0.73 (overvalued by 93.94%) - over 2 years ago
  • alext created a new valuation of $6.83 (overvalued by 5.14%) - over 3 years ago
  • SethWellbourne created a new valuation of $2.94 (overvalued by 52.35%) - over 3 years ago
  • GordonGekko created a new valuation of $6.17 (undervalued by 19.34%) - over 3 years ago
  • GordonGekko created a new valuation of $12.23 (overvalued by 1.61%) - over 4 years ago
  • KiwiEMH created a new valuation of $13.76 (overvalued by 9.47%) - over 4 years ago
  • Abo created a new valuation of $16.29 (undervalued by 3.1%) - over 4 years ago

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The boring details

All amounts in millions Figures
Enterprise Value: 5,275
Net Debt (Long-term borrowings less cash): -688
Equity Value: 9,542
Number of Shares Outstanding: 731,000,000
Calculated value per share: $13.76

Enterprise Value is the present value of the post-tax cash flows for a business into the future.

Calcuation of EV

Where:

  • C1, C2, C3 - the cash flow in period 1, 2, 3, ...
  • r - the discount rate

To capture the cash flows into the future a terminal value is calculated via a perpetuity calculation -
based on the final years forecast post-tax free cash flow.

Perpetuity

Where:

  • Cn - the cash flow in the final forecast period.
  • LTG - the long-term growth rate
  • r - the discount rate
  • g - the terminal growth rate

The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is used to determine the equity component in the discount rate.

CAPM model

Where:

  • rt - the risk free rate
  • t - the tax rate
  • B - the beta of the company
  • MRP - the Market Risk Premium

Valuecruncher uses an estimate of Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) to determine the discount rate in the calculation.