ESSITY-B.ST · STO · Consumer Defensive
Essity AB (publ)
Also onConsensus Drift
Implied value per share
SEK 271.91
Market price
SEK 261.60
Implied upside
+3.9%
5-year forecast · Perpetuity growth terminal value · Mid-year discounting · Base case
Value Per Share
Same forecast, different terminal treatment. Percentages vs price.
Forecast Cashflows
Reporting currency (SEK). Outflows negative.
| Line | FY26 | FY27 | FY28 | FY29 | FY30 | CAGR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | SEK 141.0bn | SEK 143.5bn | SEK 146.1bn | SEK 148.7bn | SEK 151.3bn | +1.8% |
| EBIT | SEK 15.6bn | SEK 15.9bn | SEK 16.2bn | SEK 16.4bn | SEK 16.7bn | +1.8% |
| NOPAT | SEK 11.7bn | SEK 11.9bn | SEK 12.1bn | SEK 12.3bn | SEK 12.6bn | +1.8% |
| Add depreciation & amortisation | SEK 8.0bn | SEK 8.1bn | SEK 8.3bn | SEK 8.4bn | SEK 8.6bn | +1.8% |
| Less capital expenditure | SEK -6.7bn | SEK -6.8bn | SEK -6.9bn | SEK -7.1bn | SEK -7.2bn | +1.8% |
| Less increase in working capital | SEK 631.3m | SEK 642.6m | SEK 654.1m | SEK 665.8m | SEK 677.7m | -1.8% |
| Free cashflow to firm | SEK 13.6bn | SEK 13.9bn | SEK 14.1bn | SEK 14.4bn | SEK 14.6bn | +1.8% |
| Discount factor | 0.9662 | 0.9020 | 0.8420 | 0.7860 | 0.7338 | - |
| Present value | SEK 13.1bn | SEK 12.5bn | SEK 11.9bn | SEK 11.3bn | SEK 10.7bn | -5.0% |
| Present Value Of The Forecast | SEK 59.5bn | |||||
Discount Rate
Source shown per component. All overridable above.
| Risk-free rate | 4.20% | USD assumption - no free live source available for this market (assumption) |
| Equity risk premium | 6.50% | Market assumption |
| Beta | 0.578 | Reported 0.370, pulled toward 1.0 (Blume) |
| Cost of equity | 7.96% | Risk-free + beta x equity risk premium |
| Cost of debt | 4.20% | Floored at the risk-free rate (implied cost of debt was lower) |
| Market capitalisation | SEK 176.7bn | 82.6% of capital |
| Total debt | SEK 37.2bn | 17.4% of capital, book value as a proxy |
| Tax rate | 25.0% | Effective, capped at statutory |
| WACC | 7.12% | E/V x Re + D/V x Rd x (1 - t) |
Terminal Value
Perpetuity growth is intrinsic. The exit multiple defaults to the company's current EV/EBITDA, so it answers a different question - what the shares are worth if today's rating holds and EBITDA grows as forecast.
Perpetuity growth at 2.50%
72% of EV
- Forecast FCFF, final year
- SEK 14.6bn
- Capex at depreciation, working capital in reinvestment
- SEK 12.6bn
- Less reinvestment at g/ROIC (23.8% of NOPAT)
- SEK -3.0bn
- Capitalised
- SEK 9.6bn
- ROIC (reported)
- 10.5%
- Terminal value, undiscounted
- SEK 212.2bn
- Terminal value, discounted
- SEK 155.7bn
- Enterprise value
- SEK 215.2bn
- Less net debt
- SEK 27.9bn
- Equity value
- SEK 187.3bn
Exit at 7.9x EBITDA
71% of EV
- Terminal value, undiscounted
- SEK 201.1bn
- Terminal value, discounted
- SEK 147.6bn
- Enterprise value
- SEK 207.1bn
- Less net debt
- SEK 27.9bn
- Equity value
- SEK 179.2bn
Spread between methods: 4%.
Sensitivity
Value per share (SEK) by discount rate and long-run growth.
| Long-run growth | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discount rate | 1.50% | 2.00% | 2.50% | 3.00% | 3.50% |
| 5.12% | 399.67 | 435.05 | 483.67 | 554.90 | 669.64 |
| 6.12% | 310.50 | 327.38 | 348.73 | 376.72 | 415.13 |
| 7.12% | 252.88 | 261.53 | 271.91 | 284.65 | 300.74 |
| 8.12% | 212.53 | 217.02 | 222.20 | 228.27 | 235.52 |
| 9.12% | 182.66 | 184.87 | 187.32 | 190.09 | 193.24 |
Outlined: this model. Green text: above today's price of 261.60. Shading: distance from this model's own value.
Priced In
What each input would have to be to justify the current price, one at a time.
| Input | Model | Implied | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, every year | 1.8% | 1.1% | -0.7pp |
| EBIT margin | 11.1% | 10.7% | -0.4pp |
| Discount rate | 7.1% | 7.3% | +0.2pp |
Live formulas, not pasted numbers - edit a driver and the workbook reprices.
Yahoo Finance and RBA data. General information, not advice. Methodology.