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Scottish American Investment Co (The) (CHIX:SAINL) Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF : £5.12 (As of Jun. 19, 2025)


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What is Scottish American Investment Co (The) Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF?

Since the intrinsic value calculations based on Discounted Cash Flow Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based), or Discounted Earnings Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) cannot be applied to companies without consistent revenue and earnings, GuruFocus developed a valuation model based on normalized Free Cash Flow and Book Value of the company. The details of how we calculate the intrinsic value of stocks are described in detail here.

As of today (2025-06-19), Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF is £5.12. The stock price of Scottish American Investment Co (The) is £5.04. Therefore, Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Price-to-Intrinsic-Value-Projected-FCF of today is 1.0.

The historical rank and industry rank for Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF or its related term are showing as below:

CHIX:SAINl' s Price-to-Projected-FCF Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 0.98   Med: 1.05   Max: 1.13
Current: 0.98

During the past 13 years, the highest Price-to-Intrinsic-Value-Projected-FCF of Scottish American Investment Co (The) was 1.13. The lowest was 0.98. And the median was 1.05.

CHIX:SAINl's Price-to-Projected-FCF is ranked worse than
58.79% of 1177 companies
in the Asset Management industry
Industry Median: 0.84 vs CHIX:SAINl: 0.98

Scottish American Investment Co (The) Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF Historical Data

The historical data trend for Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF 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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Scottish American Investment Co (The) Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF Chart

Scottish American Investment Co (The) Annual Data
Trend Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23 Dec24
Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.39 4.91 4.48 4.95 5.14

Scottish American Investment Co (The) Semi-Annual Data
Jun15 Dec15 Jun16 Dec16 Jun17 Dec17 Jun18 Dec18 Jun19 Dec19 Jun20 Dec20 Jun21 Dec21 Jun22 Dec22 Jun23 Dec23 Jun24 Dec24
Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.48 - 4.95 - 5.14

Competitive Comparison of Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF

For the Asset Management subindustry, Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Price-to-Projected-FCF, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Projected-FCF 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.


Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Price-to-Projected-FCF Distribution in the Asset Management Industry

For the Asset Management industry and Financial Services sector, Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Price-to-Projected-FCF distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Price-to-Projected-FCF falls into.


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Scottish American Investment Co (The) Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF Calculation

Since the intrinsic value calculations based on Discounted Cash Flow Intrinsic Value: DCF (FCF Based), or Discounted Earnings Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) cannot be applied to companies without consistent revenue and earnings, GuruFocus developed a valuation model based on normalized Free Cash Flow and Book Value of the company.

The details of how we calculate the intrinsic value of stocks are described in detail here.

This method smooths out the free cash flow over the past 6-7 years, multiplies the results by a growth multiple, and adds a portion of Total Stockholders Equity.

Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF = ( Growth Multiple * Free Cash Flow (6 year avg) + 0.8 * Total Stockholders Equity (most recent) ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)

In the case of negative Total Stockholders Equity, the following formula is used (see Explanation section below for the reason):

Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF = ( Growth Multiple * Free Cash Flow (6 year avg) + Total Stockholders Equity (most recent) / 0.8 ) / Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)


Add all the Free Cash Flow together and divide 6 will get Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Free Cash Flow(6 year avg) = £15.01.

Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF for today is calculated as

Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF=(Growth Multiple*Free Cash Flow (6 year avg)+Total Stockholders Equity (Dec24)*0.8)/Shares Outstanding (Diluted Average)
=(9.5203515959648*15.008+952.693*0.8)/178.118
=5.08

* 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.


Scottish American Investment Co (The)  (CHIX:SAINl) Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF Explanation

The growth multiple is capped between 8.35 and 17.74.

Total Stockholders Equity weighting is more art than science and it should always be revisited in more detail when researching a company. Weightings from 0% to 100% to more than 100% are possible. 80% was chosen as a happy median after taking the above ideas into consideration.

Scottish American Investment Co (The)'s Price-to-Intrinsic-Value-Projected-FCF for today is calculated as

Price-to-Intrinsic-Value-Projected-FCF=Share Price/Intrinsic Value: Projected FCF
=5.04/5.0811026215893
=0.99

* 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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Scottish American Investment Co (The) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
Calton Square, 1 Greenside Row, Edinburgh, GBR, EH1 3AN
Scottish American Investment Co (The) PLC is an investment trust operating in the UK. Its objective is to deliver real dividend growth by increasing capital and growing income. The company mainly invests in equity markets as well as investments in other financial instruments including bonds, property, and other asset classes. It holds a diversified portfolio of investments irrespective of any pre-defined maximum or minimum exposure levels for asset classes, sectors, or regions. The company focuses on investing in listed equities to grow its assets over the medium to the longer term at a faster rate than inflation. It may use derivatives and structured instruments to hedge an existing investment or currency exposure or to exploit an investment opportunity.

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