How you get there will be some combination of growth in intrinsic value and buying
shares at a discount to intrinsic value.
Not exact matches
«GM trades
at a significant
discount to its
intrinsic value despite the company's strong operating performance... By placing what we believe are conservative valuations on each component, it's easy
to get a
value that is 27 %
to 79 % higher than the current
share price.
«Repurchases - is sensible [allocation of capital] for a company when its
shares sell
at a meaningful
discount to conservatively calculated
intrinsic value.
«Do they [management] have an intelligent read on
intrinsic value and will they consistently buy back
shares at attractive
discounts to that
intrinsic value?
Greenlight argues that GM
shares currently trade
at a significant
discount to intrinsic value and that its plan would unlock
value by forcing the market
to appropriately
value the dividend and give credit for GM's earnings potential.
- Applying a 3.5 x revenue multiple
to WU.com, which is a
discount to Xoom's 4.8 x revenue takeover multiple, and 15x EV / FCF
to WU's remaining businesses (retail C2C, C2B, and B2B), which is a substantial
discount to MoneyGram's 21x EV / FCF takeover valuation, they derive an
intrinsic value estimate of ~ $ 33 per
share for WU
at the end of 2020, offering ~ 72 % upside, or a 3.5 - year IRR of ~ 20 % including the dividend (3.7 % current yield).
It may be worth highlighting a crucial component
to the argument made in the article — cannibalizing
shares ought
to happen only when
shares are trading
at a
discount to intrinsic value.
In the examples cited (AZO, NVR, etc...), the cannibalization created
value because
shares were bought in
at discounts to intrinsic value over long periods of time.
If you buy a quality business
at a big
discount to intrinsic value, you get the potential of a double dip — the gap
to intrinsic value hopefully closes and then you can also benefit from the company compounding per -
share value over a number of years.
Ben Graham's system involves four bedrock principles, two of which Charlie Munger introduces here: 1) a
share of stock is a proportional ownership of a business and 2) buy
at a significant
discount to intrinsic value to create a margin of safety.
Current circumstances allow the investor
to purchase
shares in the company
at a significant
discount relative
to its long - term
intrinsic value.
We then wait for an opportunity
to buy
shares in them
at a
discount to our estimate of
intrinsic value.
Value investing is all about identifying a company whose shares are trading on the stockmarket at a significant discount to their intrinsic v
Value investing is all about identifying a company whose
shares are trading on the stockmarket
at a significant
discount to their
intrinsic valuevalue.
Thus if you purchase with a
discount to your
intrinsic value (say a margin of safety of 30, 40 or 50 %) it doesn't matter if the
share price goes down; in fact this is only an opportunity
to purchase MORE of the company
at an even GREATER
discount.
If its worth so much more than the market price might he not just step up and purchase all the remaining
shares at even a 10 %
discount to his estimate of
intrinsic value?
Obviously,
share buybacks
at a continued
discount to NAV /
intrinsic value would further enhance those
values.
So I will continue
to hold my
shares at least until favorable tax treatment kicks in (just about a month
to go) and the
discount to intrinsic value narrows substantially.
Of course, I have no idea what motivated TOT's actual
share repurchase, but I don't need
to — because I have my own
Intrinsic Value for TOT, and / or other companies, I can quickly determine whether current or future
share repurchases are
at a
discount to this
Value and therefore attractive — in the case of TOT, based on current metrics, the more
share buybacks the merrier!
Furthermore, given the relative stability of the cash flows of the Company's core business, the significant
discount to intrinsic / replacement
value that the stock currently trades
at, and the strength of the balance sheet, we believe ModusLink should immediately implement a $ 50
to $ 75 million
share repurchase program.
Of course, the real benefit here is the buyback of approximately 10 % of the company's outstanding
shares at a far more substantial
discount to intrinsic value.
This presents a real problem, if you don't
at least venture
to determine an
Intrinsic Value for your stock, you have no way of figuring out if a share buyback is at a discount and adding true economic value for your sharehol
Value for your stock, you have no way of figuring out if a
share buyback is
at a
discount and adding true economic
value for your sharehol
value for your shareholders.
Even with a generous premium, a tender offer (and / or
share buybacks) could be executed
at a substantial
discount to ZMNO's
intrinsic value.
Shares are currently trading around $ 360 a pop, which means that Apple can be purchased
at about 30 %
discount to its
intrinsic value.
The classic
value investor is someone like Benjamin Graham, often heralded as the father of the craft, who seeks
to invest in companies whose
shares are trading
at a
discount to intrinsic value.
Yes, a buyback kills two birds with one stone — regardless of the estate situation,
share repurchase
at this kind of
discount to underlying
intrinsic value is a pretty compelling proposition.