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The Full Nike DCF

A start-to-finish unlevered DCF on Nike: five years of UFCF, an 8.3% WACC, a perpetuity terminal value, and an implied share price.

By the end you can
  • Trace a complete DCF from projections to share price
  • See how terminal value dominates enterprise value
  • Interpret a DCF result against the market price

Time to assemble everything. We'll value Nike with a standard unlevered DCF, following the five steps from Module 4. The numbers below are illustrative but realistic.

Step 1 - Project UFCF

Building revenue, margins, taxes, , , and working capital out five years gives annual of roughly **$3.4bn–$4.7bn**, rising over time as the business grows.

Step 2 - WACC

Nike's works out to 8.3%, built from a 3.1% , a 21% tax rate, and an 8.9% cost of equity (), under a target structure of ~10% debt / 90% equity.

Step 3 - Terminal value

Using the with a 4.5% perpetual growth rate, the in the final year (FY24) is ~**$132bn. Discounted to today that's a present value of ~$89bn**.

Steps 4–5 - Discount, sum, and bridge

Component
of 5 years of ~$16bn
of ~$89bn
= ~$104bn
Look what dominates

Of ~$104bn of , ~$89bn - about 85% - is . The five years you carefully projected are only ~15% of the answer. This is normal, and it's exactly why Module 6 hammered on terminal-value discipline.

Bridging to (subtract ) and dividing by fully diluted shares implies a price of about **$64–$70 per share - roughly 24% below** Nike's then-current market price. The DCF is saying: on these assumptions, the stock looks expensive.

An implied exit multiple check

That perpetuity implies an exit multiple of ~13.2x . Versus where Nike and peers trade, that's on the conservative side - a hint that the growth assumption, not the multiple, is doing the heavy lifting. Hold that thought.

Check yourself

Nike's DCF gives ~$104bn EV, of which ~$89bn is the PV of terminal value. The main lesson is:

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