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Table of Contents

Introduction xix

The Pricing Puzzle: Foundational HOLT Concept and a Key to Better Valuation xix

Overview of Book Chapters xxvi

Who Are We and What Do We Hope to Achieve xxviii

I Financial Performance Assessment

1 Never Forget the Golden Rule: Pursue Strategies with Positive NPV 3

Key Learning Points 3

Introduction 4

What Do Corporate Financial Managers Do During the Day? 6

What Is Value? 8

The Golden Rule of Financial Decision Making 12

Back-of-the-Envelope Basics 15

Is the NPV Rule Foolproof? 20

The Price of Short-Termism 22

Thinking Clearly about Actions, Reactions, and Value 28

2 The Flying Trapeze of Performance Metrics 31

Key Learning Points 31

Measures of Corporate Performance 32

Return on Equity 33

What about Debt and Leverage? 36

Return on Assets 39

Return on Invested Capital 39

P/E as a Valuation Metric and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Approach 44

Hallmarks of a Sound Economic Performance and Valuation Model 51

Chapter Appendix 53

3 Accounting to Cash Flow Return on Investment 57

Key Learning Points 57

Is CFROI a Better Measure of Performance? 58

Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) 62

Cash Return on Gross Assets (CROGA) 63

Cash Flow Return on Investment (CFROI) 63

CFROI Adjustments Using Amazon’s 2013 Annual Report 65

Inflation-Adjusted Gross Investment 66

Depreciating Assets 68

Gross Plant Recaptured 81

Total Depreciating Assets 81

Non-Depreciating Assets 82

Asset Life 89

Gross Plant Asset Life 90

Life of Capitalized Operating Leases 91

Capitalized R&D Life 91

Calculating the Life of Depreciating Assets 91

Gross Cash Flow 94

Net Income after Tax 95

Depreciation and Amortization 97

Interest Expense 97

Rental Expense 98

Research and Development Expense 98

Net Monetary Asset Holding Gain 99

FIFO Profits 99

Stock Compensation Expense 100

Pension Expense 101

Minority Interest 102

Special Items 102

CFROI Calculation for Amazon 103

Understanding the Relative Wealth Chart 105

A Comment on Goodwill 106

Chapter Appendix: Gross Plant Recaptured 109

II Discounted Cash Flow and Economic Profit Valuation

4 What’s It Worth? Valuing the Firm 113

Key Learning Points 113

A Review of Conventional Valuation Approaches 114

The Entity Free Cash Flow Approach 114

Valuing the End of the Line 118

Economic Profit Approach 124

What Is Fade? 127

Fade in Economic Profit Equation 129

HOLT Approach to FCFF Valuation 130

Nominal Gross Cash Flow 130

Total Investment 132

Debt and Equivalents 136

Valuing Different Forecast Scenarios for Amazon in the HOLT Framework 138

Valuing Air Liquide in HOLT Lens 145

5 Quantifying the Value and Risk of a Company’s CAP 151

Key Learning Points 151

Introduction 152

The Worst Investment I Ever Made 154

Quantifying the Magnitude and Sustainability of CAP 158

Thought Experiment: The Valuation of Core Unlimited 164

The Probability of Permanent Disruption 168

The Characteristics of Competitive Advantage 169

Fade Is a Value Driver 172

The Fundamental Pricing Model 172

The Value Driver Tree 174

ROIC 174

Investment Growth 175

Fade 175

Cost of Capital 177

Investment Growth Is a Value Driver 177

Applying the Fundamental Pricing Model 178

Final Thoughts for the Moment 183

Chapter Appendix 184

Valuation Mathematics 184

Inputs for Valuing Macy’s and Assessing Its Competitive Advantage Period 186

A Detour Through the Twilight Zone: Making Sense of P/E 187

6 HOLT Economic Profit 191

Key Learning Points 191

Introduction 193

Calculating CFROI as a Ratio 196

HOLT Economic Profit 200

The Power of Simplicity: Spread, Fade, and Growth in an EP Framework 204

Using Economic Profit to Measure the Value of Acquisitions 205

Decomposing Value Creation into Delta EP Components 208

What about Goodwill? 210

Case Study: Danaher Corporation 212

7 Risk, Reward, and the HOLT Discount Rate 217

Key Learning Points 217

Risk, Return, and Diversification 218

What Is Risk? 221

How Do Corporate Managers Discount Cash Flows to Present Value? 223

How Should Investors Think about Risk When Discounting Cash Flows? 223

How Large Is the Equity Risk Premium (ERP)? 226

Should I Use the Arithmetic or Geometric Average? 228

Other Risk Factors to Consider 228

Introduction to the HOLT Approach of Estimating a Firm’s Discount Rate 231

Relating the HOLT Discount Rate and Framework to CAPM and APV 237

What Type of Discount Rate Is the HOLT Cost of Capital? 238

Valuation Method Equivalence 239

Capital Cash Flows 243

Cost of Capital and Its Relationship to Debt 243

Chapter Appendix: Do Equity Discount Rates Mean Revert? 245

General Observations about Annual Changes in the U.S. Discount Rate 247

How Does the Monthly Change in the U.S. Discount Rate Behave? 249

Does the Discount Rate Mean-Revert? 250

How Do Changes in the Discount Rate Manifest in the Equity Risk Premium? 252

The Bitter Truth about Mean Reversion 253

III Value Driver Forecasting

8 The Competitive Life-Cycle of Corporate Evolution 257

Key Learning Points 257

Introduction 258

What Is Fade? 262

The Competitive Life-Cycle 262

Determining a Firm’s Life-Cycle Position 264

Question Marks (Early Life-Cycle) 265

Stars 267

Cash Cows 270

Dogs (Turnarounds or Restructuring) 274

Final Remarks on the Competitive Life-Cycle 276

Essential Facts about the Competitive Life-Cycle 278

9 The Persistence of Corporate Profitability 281

Key Learning Points 281

Long-Term Real Return on Investment 282

The Long-Term Real Required Rate of Return 283

Measuring Persistence 286

Transition Matrices as a Means of Quantifying Fade 286

Industry Persistence: Does Industry Matter? 287

Reversion to the Mean 290

Competitive Advantage and Its Effect on Fade 292

Industry CFROI Persistence 295

Does CFROI Persistence Vary over Time? 296

Putting It All Together: Developing a Mean-Reverting Forecast Model 297

Conclusion 300

10 Forecasting Growth 303

Key Learning Points 303

Median Real Asset Growth Rate 306

The Average Growth Rate as Companies Mature 307

Is Corporate Growth Mean-Reverting? 309

The Sustainability of Growth 312

Forecasting Growth 313

Measuring a Firm’s Sustainable Growth Rate 313

Why HOLT Uses a Normalized Growth Rate 315

Forecasting Growth: Near-Term and Long-Term Dynamics 317

Conclusions 319

11 Evaluating Market Expectations 321

Key Learning Points 321

The Relative Wealth Chart as a Decision Aid for Efficiently Assessing Stock Opportunities 322

Distilling Expectations from a Stock Price 323

Can It Beat the Fade? 326

The Green Dot 328

Thinking about Expectations at Different Life-Cycle States 332

Why the Green Dot Is So Helpful 336

Picking Stocks Across the Life-Cycle 340

Question Mark (Tesla) 340

Star (Amazon) 343

eCAP (Nestlé) 346

Cash Cow (DuPont) 348

Dog (BP) 349

Final Remarks 353

Chapter Appendix: Gauging Expectations Using PVGO 356

12 Closing Thoughts 359

Index 363

About the Author

DAVID A. HOLLAND is an independent consultant who serves as a senior advisor to Credit Suisse and is an adjunct professor at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. Formerly, he was a managing director at Credit Suisse based in London. David oversaw HOLT Valuation and Analytics, the research and development arm of Credit Suisse HOLT, and ran their global Custom Solutions Group.

BRYANT A. MATTHEWS is the senior director of research for Credit Suisse HOLT. He has over 20 years of professional experience valuing stocks and helping professional investors improve their stock selection process and valuation models. His research on understanding quality and fade has been adopted by professional investors around the world and led to numerous innovations in the flagship Credit Suisse HOLT Lens application.

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