Nasdaq's DCF Stock Analysis. Buy or Sell?

Nasdaq's DCF Stock Analysis. Buy or Sell?

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Nasdaq’s DCF Stock Analysis

Here’s my assumptions:

Risk Free Rate (10 Years Interest Rate Swap): 4.42489%

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): 8.08%

Earnings growth in the last 10 years (CAGR): 12.74%

Unlevered Free Cash Flow growth in the last 10 years (CAGR): 12.39%

Future Assumptions

End of Year FCF growth: 5%

Growth until end of 2026: 11%

Growth until end of 2034: 6%

Perpetual growth: 3.1%

Net Debt: 9.069B

Outstanding Stock Options Present Value Assumption: $0.059B

Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units Present Value Assumption: $0.530B

Stock Valuation based on these assumptions: $575

Last update 06/08/2025

All the content in this newsletter should be taken as informational content only. THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE! Do your own Due Diligence before investing or contact a professional financial advisor.

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