Factset's DCF Stock Analysis. Buy or Sell?

Factset's DCF Stock Analysis

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Factset’s DCF Stock Analysis

Here’s my assumptions:

Risk Free Rate (10 Years Interest Rate Swap): 4.182%

Risk Premium (Taken from the Aswath Damodaran equity premium spreadsheet): 4.33%

Interest Rate Spread on The Risk free rate ( For the cost of debt calculation): 2.5%

Historical Data

Revenue growth in the last 10 years (CAGR): 8.15%

Earnings growth in the last 10 years (CAGR): 8.34%

Unlevered Free Cash Flow growth in the last 10 years (CAGR): 9.35%

Future Assumptions

End of Year FCF growth: 5%

Growth until end of 2026: 9%

Growth until end of 2034: 6%

Perpetual growth: 3.1%

Net Debt: 1.376B

Outstanding Stock Options Present Value Assumption: $0.190B

Restricted Stock Units Present Value Assumption: $0.110B

Stock Valuation based on these assumptions: $498

Last update 06/17/2025

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I don’t have a position in Factset (FDS) and I don’t plan to add a position in the coming days.