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Sterling Infrastructure (Sterling Infrastructure) Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based) : $413.91 (As of Apr. 29, 2024)


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What is Sterling Infrastructure Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based)?

As of today (2024-04-29), Sterling Infrastructure's intrinsic value calculated from the Discounted Cash Flow model is $413.91.

Note: Discounted Cash Flow model is only suitable for predictable companies (Business Predictability Rank higher than 1-Star). If the company's predictability rank is 1-Star or Not Rated, result may not be accurate due to the low predictability of business and the data will not be stored into our database.

Sterling Infrastructure's Predictability Rank is 1-Star. Thus, this page is only used for demonstration purposes and the DCF related results in the screener and portfolio will appear as zero.

Margin of Safety (FCF Based) using Discounted Cash Flow model for Sterling Infrastructure is 74.45%.

The industry rank for Sterling Infrastructure's Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based) or its related term are showing as below:

STRL's Price-to-DCF (FCF Based) is not ranked *
in the Construction industry.
Industry Median: 0.745
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-DCF (FCF Based) only.

Sterling Infrastructure Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based) Historical Data

The historical data trend for Sterling Infrastructure's Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based) can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Sterling Infrastructure Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based) Chart

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Competitive Comparison of Sterling Infrastructure's Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based)

For the Engineering & Construction subindustry, Sterling Infrastructure's Price-to-DCF (FCF Based), along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-DCF (FCF Based) data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Sterling Infrastructure's Price-to-DCF (FCF Based) Distribution in the Construction Industry

For the Construction industry and Industrials sector, Sterling Infrastructure's Price-to-DCF (FCF Based) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Sterling Infrastructure's Price-to-DCF (FCF Based) falls into.



Sterling Infrastructure Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based) Calculation

This is the intrinsic value calculated from the Discounted Cash Flow model with default parameters. In a discounted cash flow model, the future cash flow is estimated based on a cash flow growth rate and a discount rate. The cash flow of the future is discounted to its current value at the discount rate. All of the discounted future cash flow is added together to get the current intrinsic value of the company.

Usually a two-stage model is used when calculating a stock's intrinsic value using a discounted cash flow model. The first stage is called the growth stage; the second is called the terminal stage. In the growth stage the company grows at a faster rate. Because it cannot grow at that rate forever, a lower rate is used for the terminal stage.

GuruFocus DCF calculator is a two-stage model. The default values are defined as:

1. Discount Rate: d = 11%
A reasonable discount rate assumption should be at least the long term average return of the stock market, which can be estimated from risk free rate plus risk premium of stock market. GuruFocus uses 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate as the risk-free rate and rounded up to the nearest integer. It is updated daily. The current risk-free rate is 4.61%. Please go to Economic Indicators page for more information. Please note that we use the 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate of the United States as default. Then we added a risk premium of 6% to get the estimated discount rate. Some investors use their expected rate of return, which is also reasonable. A typical discount rate can be anywhere between 6% - 20%.

2. Growth Rate in the growth stage: g1 = 20%
The Growth Rate in the growth stage is initially set as the default 10-Year FCF Growth Rate (Per Share). In cases where the 10-year growth rate is unavailable, it defaults to using the 5-Year FCF Growth Rate (Per Share). If both the 10-year and 5-year growth rates are unavailable, the system defaults to the 3-Year FCF Growth Rate (Per Share).
However, it's important to note that there is a growth rate range. If the calculated growth rate exceeds 20%, it will be capped at 20%. Conversely, if the calculated growth rate falls below 5%, it will be adjusted to 5% to maintain a reasonable range.
=> Sterling Infrastructure's average Free Cash Flow Growth Rate in the past 5 years was 68.50%, which is no less than 20%. GuruFocus defaults => Growth Rate: 20%

3. Years of Growth Stage: y1 = 10

4. Terminal Growth Rate: g2 = 4%

5. Years of Terminal Growth: y2 = 10

6. Free Cash Flow per Share: fcf = $13.245.
However, GuruFocus DCF calculator is actually a Discounted Earnings calculator, the EPS without NRI is used as the default. The reason we are doing this is we found that historically stock prices are more correlated with earnings than free cash flow.

All of the default settings can be changed and the results are calculated automatically.

Sterling Infrastructure's Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based) for today is calculated as

Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based)=Free Cash Flow per Share*{[(1+g1)/(1+d)+(1+g1)^2/(1+d)^2+...+(1+g1)^10/(1+d)^10]
+(1+g1)^10/(1+d)^10*[(1+g2)/(1+d)+(1+g2)^2/(1+d)^2+...+(1+g2)^10/(1+d)^10]}

set x = (1+g1)/(1+d) = (1+0.2)/(1+0.11) = 1.0810810810811
and y = (1+g2)/(1+d) = (1+0.04)/(1+0.11) = 0.93693693693694

Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based)=Free Cash Flow per Share*{[x+x^2+...+x^10]+x^10*[y+y^2+...+y^10]}
=Free Cash Flow per Share*[x*(1-x^10)/(1-x)+x^10*y*(1-y^10)/(1-y)]
=13.245*31.2501
=413.91

Margin of Safety (FCF Based)=(Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based)-Current Price)/Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based)
=(413.91-105.75)/413.91
=74.45 %

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Sterling Infrastructure  (NAS:STRL) Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based) Explanation

Unlike valuation methods such as Net Current Asset Value, Tangible Book per Share, Graham Number, Median PS Value etc, discounted Cash Flow model evaluates the companies based on their future earnings power instead of their assets.


Be Aware

What you need to know about the DCF model:

1. The DCF model evaluates a company based on its future earnings power
2. Growth is taken into account; therefore a faster growth company is worth more if everything else is the same.
3. Since we are projecting future growth, it is assumed that the company will grow at the same rate as it did during the past 10 years. Therefore this model works better for the companies that have relatively consistent performance.
4. The DCF model works poorly for inconsistent performers such as cyclicals.
5. What discount rate should you use? Your expected return from the investment is a good discount rate assumption.
6. A larger margin of safety should be required for companies with less predictable businesses.

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Sterling Infrastructure (Sterling Infrastructure) Business Description

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Address
1800 Hughes Landing Boulevard, Suite 250, The Woodlands, TX, USA, 77380
Sterling Infrastructure Inc is a construction company that specializes in heavy civil infrastructure construction and infrastructure rehabilitation as well as residential construction projects. The company operates in three reportable segments namely, Transportation Solutions, E-Infrastructure Solutions, and Building Solution. Transportation Solutions include highways, roads, bridges, airfields, ports, light rail, and others. Building Solution projects include concrete foundations for single-family homes. E-Infrastructure Solutions include the services which are provided to large, blue-chip companies in the e-commerce, data center, distribution center, and warehousing, energy, mixed-use, and multi-family sectors. The majority of the revenue is generated from E-Infrastructure Solutions. .
Executives
Ronald A Ballschmiede officer: EVP & CFO 1800 HUGHES LANDING BLVD, SUITE 250, THE WOODLANDS TX 77380
Mark D. Wolf officer: General Counsel, Corporate Sec 770 SOUTH POST OAK LANE, SUITE 405, C/O U.S. WELL SERVICES, INC., HOUSTON TX 77056
Joseph A Cutillo officer: Chief Executive Officer 1800 HUGHES LANDING BLVD, SUITE 250, THE WOODLANDS TX 77380
Julie Dill director 1301 RIVERPLACE BOULEVARD, SUITE 2300, JACKSONVILLE FL 32207
Dwayne Andree Wilson director 6700 LAS COLINAS BOULEVARD, IRVING TX 75039
Roger A Cregg director 100 BLOOMFIELD HILL PARKWAY, STE 300, BLOOMFIELD HILLS MI 48304
Raymond F Messer director 1800 HUGHES LANDING BLVD., SUITE 250, THE WOODLANDS TX 77380
Dana C. O'brien director 1111 LOUISIANA STREET, HOUSTON TX 77002
Thomas M White director C/O APOLLO MANAGEMENT, 9 WEST 57TH STREET, 43RD FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10019
Marian M Davenport director 1800 HUGHES LANDING BLVD., SUITE 250, THE WOODLANDS TX 77380
Milton L Scott director
Charles R. Patton director 1 RIVERSIDE PLAZA, COLUMBUS OH 43215
Richard O Schaum director 388 WARREN COURT, BIRMINGHAM MI 48009
Craig B Allen officer: SVP & CHRO/CCO 1800 HUGHES LANDING BLVD, STE 250, THE WOODLANDS TX 77380
Wadsworth Con L officer: EVP & Chief Operating Officer 1800 HUGHES LANDING BLVD, SUITE 250, THE WOODLANDS TX 77380