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Applying Excel Functions in our Model Part 1

1. Applying Excel Functions in our Model Part 1

So you've calculated enterprise value, equity value, and equity value per share using manual discounting. Gonna mix things up a little bit. We're going to calculate the enterprise value and equity value using actual dates, both on an end of period basis as well as a mid period basis. We'll first do that manually, but then we'll use the NPV function to calculate the end of period enterprise value and then equity value. And then we'll use XNPV using both end of period and mid period dates. Again, I've mentioned it before, but it bears repeating, XNPV does not discount the first cash flow so we may need to hard code a zero value at the valuation date to obtain the correct present value and we'll go ahead and show you that right now. We hard code that as zero. Again, XNPV does not discount the first cash flow since we have a zero in there. It doesn't matter. XNPV, assuming you can get the date ranges correct and the cash flow ranges correct, XNPV will do the work and will discount everything appropriately. So again, try this out and we will walk through all of it together. So let's do this one together. Admittedly, this is the most challenging part of this DCF model, okay? Since we have actual dates that we want to use. So for our discounting period, yes, in theory you could take 2023 minus 2022 if you wanted to. Alternatively, again, since we have actual dates, we can take the dates, one date minus another date. Again, we'll anchor that date in cell H245 and we'll divide by 365 for days in the year. Again, when Excel sees dates like this, it doesn't think in terms of dates, it uses serial numbers, but we can still do math based on it. And again, yes, I realized that some years have 366 days. It's close enough for our purposes. Okay. But again, you still get one out to five years. Okay. Then we can present value the cash flows. Again, make sure that you anchor your WACC and raise it to the power of the discounting period. Copy that to the right. Then we'll calculate the enterprise value. These are unlevered cash flows, so we'll capture those. And then for equity value, instead of having net debt and shares outstanding for each one of these calculations in this section, we'll just do it all at once. So we'll take our enterprise value and if you recall, net debt was negative, so we can add it by adding a negative number. We are of course, subtracting, but we'll anchor that. And then we need to divide by these shares outstanding, which we will also anchor. So now we have $6.19, which is what we had earlier. Now let's apply mid period discounting as our convention. Again, up until now, we've been using the end of period or end of year discounting convention. But you'll notice up here we have cash flow timing, and you can see June 30th, we have a normal fiscal year of December 31st, so June 30th is the middle of the year. So we can do some similar math to what we did in the previous example. We take one date, subtract a previous date, divide it by 365, and this will be 0.5. We'll copy that out. Again, you'll notice everything is 0.5 earlier than the end of period. That's intentional. We are slightly moving the discounting forward, which will slightly increase the present value of our cash flows. Again, the underlying assumption in the mid period discounting is that the cash flows don't occur at the end of the year, they occur on average in the middle of the year. Either way though, take our cash flows divided by one plus our WACC, raise to the half power in this case. Copy it forward, sum everything up to get our enterprise value. And we don't need to include that zero in cell H263. That's really... We really only need to factor that in when we start using the XNPV and the equity value since we anchored net debt and shares outstanding, all we have to do is we can literally just copy that formula and paste it like so. So again, the present value, the equity value per share is a little bit higher because we are moving the discounting forward. So our present value increases, you can see a higher enterprise value than in the end of period. Therefore, that translates into a higher equity value per share just through changing your discounting convention. Now, let's go ahead and use the NPV function to calculate the enterprise value and of course, the equity value. Again, the end of... The NPV function assumes end of period discounting. To do equal NPV, we need to reference our weighted average cost of capital and then we'll capture the undiscounted cash flows. Press enter. And again, you can see that the NPV function using end of period discounting is very close to the manual end of period discounting convention. Once again, to get equity value per share, we can simply copy the formula again, net debts anchored, shares outstanding anchored, and we get $6.19.

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