This document discusses key concepts in value investing, including:
1. It defines who a value investor is and the three main types: passive screeners, contrarian investors, and activist value investors.
2. It outlines some perceived flaws in modern value investing strategies, calling them rigid, righteous, and ritualistic.
3. It discusses myths around discounted cash flow valuation and the role of beta in measuring risk. While beta is an imperfect measure, it is useful for measuring relative and macroeconomic risk.
4. It notes that more research does not necessarily decrease risk, as value investors still face macroeconomic and other risks outside of their control.
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What is Intrinsic Stock Value?
In the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929 in the early days of the Great Depression Benjamin Graham introduced the concept of value investing. No longer would those buying and selling stocks need to act like they were at the casino. With the concepts of intrinsic value and margin of safety Graham taught investors a rational means of investing in stocks. With this in mind just what is intrinsic stock value? And how does this concept help with profitable stock investing?
What Is Intrinsic Stock Value?
The dictionary definition of intrinsic stock value is its fundamental value. It is obtained by adding up predicted future income of a stock and subtracting current price. It can also be seen as actual value of an equity versus its book value or market value. The concept of fundamental analysis of equities evolved from this concept. Using fundamental analysis the intrinsic value of a stock is the expected company cash flow discounted to current dollars. It is a discounted cash flow valuation. An inherent weakness in this concept is that too often the medium and long term prospects of a company and its stock price are not clear. So, what is intrinsic stock value of a company if the future is uncertain? The ability to see into the future to see how well a company will manage its assets, products, costs, R&D, and marketing is of utmost importance in calculating intrinsic stock value as a means of deciding whether or not to purchase a stock.
What is Intrinsic Stock Value as a Formula?
Mr. Graham presented investors with a formula for calculating intrinsic stock value in 1962 and modified it in 1974. The 1974 version considers the following:
• Earnings per share, EPS, for the preceding twelve months
• A constant of 8.5 representing an expected price to earnings ratio, P/E ratio, for a company that is not growing
• An estimate of long term growth, five years = g
• A constant of 4.4 which was the average yield of high grade corporate bonds in the early 1960 decade
• The current yield of AAA corporate bonds = Y
• Where V = intrinsic value
The formula is as follows:
V = (EPS x (8.5 + 2g) x 4.4)/Y
The way the investors were encouraged to use intrinsic value was to derive what is referred to as a Relative Graham Value, RGV. This is to divide the calculated intrinsic value of the stock by its current price. If the result, the RGV, is less than one the stock is overvalued and a bad investment and if the ratio is above one it is undervalued and may be a good investment.
What is Intrinsic Stock Value as an Investing Tool?
There are a couple of difficulties in using the simple calculation above to determine the forward looking earnings of a stock and therefore its intrinsic value. First of all the formula does not account for inflation. Thus one could use the formula and end up with a stock valued higher in dollars but in dollars that are inflated.
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The valuation is an essential part of any investment, we provided basics of thinking and calculations. It was presented in our meetup group, it can be used as referenced for future study.
1. Where is the “value” in value investing?
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2. Who is a value investor?
Assets Liabilities
Existing Investments Fixed Claim on cash flows
Generate cashflows today Assets in Place Debt Little or No role in management
Includes long lived (fixed) and Fixed Maturity
short-lived(working Tax Deductible
capital) assets
Expected Value that will be Growth Assets Equity Residual Claim on cash flows
created by future investments Significant Role in management
Perpetual Lives
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3. Three faces of value investing…
Passive Screeners: Following in the Ben Graham tradition, you screen for
stocks that have characteristics that you believe identify under valued stocks.
Contrarian Investors: These are investors who invest in companies that others
have given up on, either because they have done badly in the past or because
their future prospects look bleak.
Activist Value Investors: These are investors who invest in poorly managed
and poorly run firms but then try to change the way the companies are run.
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4. The three biggest Rs of value investing
Rigid: The strategies that have come to characterize a great deal of value
investing reveal an astonishing faith in accounting numbers and an equally
stunning lack of faith in markets getting anything right. Value investors may
be the last believers in book value. The rigidity extends to the types of
companies that you buy (avoiding entire sectors…)
Righteous: Value investors have convinced themselves that they are better
people than other investors. Index fund investors are viewed as “academic
stooges”, growth investors are considered to be “dilettantes” and momentum
investors are “lemmings”. Value investors consider themselves to be the
grown ups in the investing game.
Ritualistic: Modern day value investing has a whole menu of rituals that
investors have to perform to meet be “value investors”. The rituals range from
the benign (claim to have read “Security Analysis” by Ben Graham and every
Berkshire Hathaway annual report) to the not-so-benign…
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5. Myth 1: DCF valuation is an academic exercise…
The value of an asset is the present value of the expected cash flows on that asset,
over its expected life:
Proposition 1: If “it” does not affect the cash flows or alter risk (thus
changing discount rates), “it” cannot affect value.
Proposition 2: For an asset to have value, the expected cash flows have to be
positive some time over the life of the asset.
Proposition 3: Assets that generate cash flows early in their life will be worth
more than assets that generate cash flows later; the latter may however
have greater growth and higher cash flows to compensate.
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6. Here is what the value of a business rests on… in DCF
valuation
What is the value added by growth assets?
Equity: Growth in equity earnings/ cashflows
What are the Firm: Growth in operating earnings/
cashflows from cashflows
existing assets? When will the firm
- Equity: Cashflows become a mature
after debt payments fiirm, and what are
- Firm: Cashflows How risky are the cash flows from both the potential
before debt payments existing assets and growth assets? roadblocks?
Equity: Risk in equity in the company
Firm: Risk in the firm’s operations
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7. Myth 2: Beta is greek from geeks…and essential to DCF
valuation
Dispensing with all of the noise, here are the underpinnings for using beta as a
measure of risk:
• Risk is measured in volatility in asset prices
• The risk in an individual investment is the risk that it adds to the investor’s
portfolio
• That risk can be measured with a beta (CAPM) or with multiple betas (in the APM
or Multi-factor models)
1. Beta is a measure of relative risk: Beta is a way of scaled risk, with the scaling
around one. Thus, a beta of 1.50 is an indication that a stock is 1.50 times as
risky as the average stock, with risk measured as risk added to a portfolio.
2. Beta measures exposure to macroeconomic risk: Risk that is specific to
individual companies will get averaged out (some companies do better than
expected and others do worse). The only risk that you cannot diversify away is
exposure to macroeconomic risk, which cuts across most or all investments.
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8. If you don’t like betas, here are your alternatives
Market price based alternatives
• Relative volatility: The ratio of a company’s standard deviation to standard
deviation of average company in market
• Implied costs of equity and capital: Backed out of current stock prices…
• If you don’t like betas because they are based on stock prices, you won’t like these
alternatives either.
Accounting information based alternatives
• Accounting earnings volatility: The ratio of the stability in earnings in your
company, relative to other companies.
• Accounting ratios: Ratios that capture financial leverage (debt ratios) and liquidity
of assets (current ratios).
• Accountants are better at measuring default risk than equity risk.
Proxies for risk
• Dividend Yield: Higher dividend yields -> Less risk
• Sector: Technology is risky, consumer product companies are not…
• Company size: Small companies are risky, big companies are not…
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9. And doing your homework is not going to make the big risks
go away...
There is a widely held view among value investors that they are not as
exposed to risk as the rest of the market, because they do their homework,
poring over financial statements or using ratios to screen for risky stocks. Put
simply, they are assuming that the more they know about an investment, the
less risky it becomes.
That may be true from some peripheral risks and a few firm specific risks, but
it definitely is not for the macro risks (which is all that you bring into the
discount rate in a conventional risk and return model). You cannot make a
cyclical company less cyclical by studying it more or take the nationalization
risk out of Venezuelan company by doing more research.
Implication 1: The need for diversification does not decrease just because you are
a value investor who picks stocks with much research and care.
Implication 2: You can be a good value investor and your picks can still lose
money.
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10. Myth 3: The “Margin of Safety” is an alternative to beta and
works better
The margin of safety is a buffer that you build into your investment decisions
to protect yourself from investment mistakes. Thus, if your margin of safety is
30%, you will buy a stock only if the price is more than 30% below its
“intrinsic” value. There is nothing wrong with using the margin of safety as
an additional risk measure, as long as the following are kept in mind:
Proposition 1: MOS comes into play at the end of the investment process,
not at the beginning.
Proposition 2: MOS does not substitute for risk assessment and intrinsic
valuation, but augments them.
Proposition 3: The MOS cannot and should not be a fixed number, but
should be reflective of the uncertainty in the assessment of intrinsic value.
Proposition 4: Being too conservative can be damaging to your long term
investment prospects. Too high a MOS can hurt you as an investor.
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11. If you need a MOS, here is one way to get it and use it…
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13. And it is time to get specific about what comprises “good”
management…
Which of the following characteristics would you look for in a good
manager?
q Stable Earnings
q High Growth
q Low Risk
q High Dividends
q Other:________________________
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14. Myth 5: Wide moats = Good investments
Moats are the competitive advantages that allow companies to generate keep
the competition out. In the process, they can keep their margins and returns
high and improve the quality of their growth.
Intrinsic value people and value investors do agree that moats matter to value:
the wider the moat, the higher the value added by growth. But there are two
places where they might disagree:
• Moats matter more for growth companies than mature companies: Wide moats
increase the value of companies and the value increase is proportional to the growth
at these companies.
• The returns on stocks are not a function of the width, but the rate of change in that
width. So, companies with wide moats can be bad investments if the width shrinks
and companies with no moats can be good investments if the width opens to a
sliver.
• It is easier to talk about moats than it is to measure their width…
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16. Myth 6: Intrinsic value is stable and unchangeable..
There is a widely held belief that the intrinsic value of an investment, if
computed correctly, should be stable over time. It is the market that is viewed
as the volatile component in the equation. As a consequence, here is what we
tend to do:
• We make a decision on whether to buy or sell the stock and never revisit the
intrinsic valuation.
• We view market price changes as random, arbitrary and completely unjustified and
ignore he fact that even there is information in market price changes in even the
most unstable market.
The intrinsic value of a company is viewed as a given, with investors having
little impact on value (though they affect price)
• We do not consider the feedback effects on intrinsic value, from changing
stockholder bases and management teams.
• We ignore the fact that the “intrinsic value” of a company can be different to
different investors.
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17. The intrinsic value of a company can change over time…
even if the company does not…
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18. Hormel Foods: The Value of Control Changing
Hormel Foods sells packaged meat and other food products and has been in existence as a publicly traded company for almost 80 years.
In 2008, the firm reported after-tax operating income of $315 million, reflecting a compounded growth of 5% over the previous 5 years.
The Status Quo
Run by existing management, with conservative reinvestment policies (reinvestment rate = 14.34% and debt ratio = 10.4%.
Anemic growth rate and short growth period, due to reinvestment policy Low debt ratio affects cost of capital
Expected value =$31.91 (.90) + $37.80 (.10) = $32.50
Probability of management change = 10%
New and better management
More aggressive reinvestment which increases the reinvestment rate (to 40%) and tlength of growth (to 5 years), and higher debt ratio (20%).
Operating Restructuring 1
Financial restructuring 2
Expected growth rate = ROC * Reinvestment Rate
Cost of capital = Cost of equity (1-Debt ratio) + Cost of debt (Debt ratio)
Expected growth rae (status quo) = 14.34% * 19.14% = 2.75%
Status quo = 7.33% (1-.104) + 3.60% (1-.40) (.104) = 6.79%
Expected growth rate (optimal) = 14.00% * 40% = 5.60%
Optimal = 7.75% (1-.20) + 3.60% (1-.40) (.20) = 6.63%
ROC drops, reinvestment rises and growth goes up.
Cost of equity rises but cost of capital drops.
3
4
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19. Myth 7: Value investors get a bigger payoff from “active”
investing than growth investors…
Excess returns relative to appropriate index
(based on capitalization and philosophy)!
If value investing is the “best way to invest”, how do we explain the
fact that active growth investors beat a passive growth index fund
far more frequently and by far more than active value investors do,
relative to a passive value fund?!
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