+ Cash and marketable securities
1,484 billion
yen
= Value of equity
22,811 billion
yen
÷ Number of shares 3.61 billion
= Value of equity per share 6,319 yen
Thestockwastradingat5,600yeninNovember2005,atthe
time of this valuation, making it slightly undervalued.
The E Model—A Three-Stage FCFE Model
TheEmodelisdesignedtovaluefirmsthatareexpectedto
gothroughthreestagesofgrowth—an initialphaseofhigh
growth rates, a transitional period where the growth rate
declines,andasteadystateperiodwheregrowthisstable.In
this model, the value of a stock is the present value of
expected freecash flow to equity over allthree stages of
growth:
where
P 0 = Value of equity today
FCFEt= FCFE in yeart
ki= Cost of equity