MIND Technology (MIND Technology) Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) : $-79.35 (As of Apr. 25, 2024)

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MIND Technology Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Chart

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Competitive Comparison of MIND Technology's Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based)

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, MIND Technology's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based), along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-DCF (Earnings 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.

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MIND Technology's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, MIND Technology's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where MIND Technology's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) falls into.

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MIND Technology Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Calculation

This is the intrinsic value calculated from the Discounted Earnings model with default parameters. The calculation method is the same as Discounted Cash Flow model except earnings are used in the calculation instead of free cash flow. This is the default method of calculation with GuruFocus DCF calculator.

Usually a two-stage model is used in calculating the intrinsic value with discounted cash flow model. The first stage is called 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 4.65%. 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 = 10.20%
The Growth Rate in the growth stage is initially set as the default 10-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate. In cases where the 10-year growth rate is unavailable, it defaults to using the 5-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate. If both the 10-year and 5-year growth rates are unavailable, the system defaults to the 3-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate.
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.
=> MIND Technology's average EPS without NRI Growth Rate in the past 5 years was 10.20%, which is between 5% and 20%. => GuruFocus defaults => Growth Rate: 10.20%

3. Years of Growth Stage: y1 = 10

4. Terminal Growth Rate: g2 = 4%

5. Years of Terminal Growth: y2 = 10

6. EPS without NRI: eps without nri = $-4.890.
GuruFocus DCF calculator is actually a Discounted Earnings calculator, 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.

MIND Technology's Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) for today is calculated as:

set x = (1+g1)/(1+d) = (1+0.102)/(1+0.11) = 0.99279279279279
and y = (1+g2)/(1+d) = (1+0.04)/(1+0.11) = 0.93693693693694

* 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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MIND Technology  (NAS:MIND) Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Explanation

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

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Be Aware

What you need to know about Discounted Earnings model:

1. The Discounted Earnings 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 are relatively consistent performers.
4. The Discounted Earnings model works poorly for inconsistent performers like cyclicals.
5. Your expected return from the investment is a reasonable discount rate assumption.
6. A larger margin of safety should be required for companies with less predictable businesses.

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MIND Technology Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Related Terms

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MIND Technology (MIND Technology) Business Description

Executives

Peter H Blum	director	999 18TH STREET, STE 1700, DENVER CO 80202
Alan Perry Baden	director	2635 SUTTON COURT, HOUSTON TX 77027
Nancy Jean Harned	director	2704 CHESTER FOREST COURT, VIRGINIA BEACH VA 23452
Thomas S Glanville	director	2818 N SULLIVAN ROAD, SPOLANE WA 99216
Mark Alan Cox	officer: Principal Accounting Officer	1301 MCKINNEY STREET, SUITE 1800, HOUSTON TX 77010
Guy Malden	officer: Co-CEO and EVP	P O BOX 1175, HUNTSVILLE TX 77342
Marcus C Rowland	director	920 MEMORIAL CITY WAY, SUITE 850, HOUSTON TX 77024
Robert John Albers	director	2171 LOMA LINDA DRIVE, PAGOSA SPRINGS CO 81147
Robert P Capps	director, officer: Co-CEO and CFO
Dennis Patrick Morris	officer: Chief Operating Officer	7026 TEAL LOOP, GIG HARBOR WA 98335
William Hunter Hilarides	director	10710 OX CROFT CT., FAIRFAX STATION VA 22039
Midwood Capital Management Llc	10 percent owner	575 BOYLSON ST., 4TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
Paul Guy Rogers	officer: VP - Business Development
John F Schwalbe	director
R Dean Lewis	director