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Bloomberg - Absolute Valuation in the Bloomberg Terminal: Step3: Discounting cash-flows

This guide is an introduction of functions withing the Bloomberg Terminal that help to do the absolute valuation of a company

We take the discount rate and the long term free cash-flow. Value of the firm, at this point, is the total value of these discounted cash-flows.

Facebook’s WACC helps to evaluate the present value of its future cash-flows. The riskier the firm , the less you will value the future cash-flows probably because its very uncertain. 

A reminder:

The derivation of free cash-flow from revenue and cost projections is rule based. The hard part is to make the required assumptions about the future. Bloomberg seems not to provide the estimation of long-term future cash-flows. Historical and current free cash-flow of a company can be found by using the FA function. 

Question: What does uncertainty in the valuation of future cash-flows mean? Does it imply that the field, in which the company is operating, is dynamic? 

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