Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228154 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2020/15
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
In all investment decisions it is important to determine the degree of uncertainty associated with the valuation of a company. We propose an original and robust methodology to company valuation which replaces the traditional point estimate of the conventional Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) with a probability distribution of fair values. It hinges on two main ingredients: an econometric model for the company revenues and a set of firm-specific balance sheet relations that are estimated using historical data. The effectiveness and scope of our methodology are explored through a series of statistical exercises on publicly traded U.S. companies. We show that an uncertainty-adjusted indicator of mispricing, derived from the fair value distribution, is capable of predicting future abnormal returns. Then, we construct a new long-short valuation factor and we test that it is not redundant for describing average returns when used to augment traditional market factor models.
Subjects: 
Stochastic Discounted Cash Flow
Valuation Uncertainty
Valuation Factor
Kalman Filter
JEL: 
G11
G17
G32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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