MRU.TO · TOR · Consumer Defensive
Metro Inc.
Also onConsensus Drift
Implied value per share
CAD 135.58
Market price
CAD 91.46
Implied upside
+48.2%
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 (CAD). Outflows negative.
| Line | FY26 | FY27 | FY28 | FY29 | FY30 | CAGR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | CAD 23.2bn | CAD 24.4bn | CAD 25.6bn | CAD 27.0bn | CAD 28.4bn | +5.2% |
| EBIT | CAD 1.6bn | CAD 1.7bn | CAD 1.8bn | CAD 1.8bn | CAD 1.9bn | +5.2% |
| NOPAT | CAD 1.2bn | CAD 1.3bn | CAD 1.3bn | CAD 1.4bn | CAD 1.5bn | +5.2% |
| Add depreciation & amortisation | CAD 612.7m | CAD 644.7m | CAD 678.4m | CAD 713.8m | CAD 751.1m | +5.2% |
| Less capital expenditure | CAD -672.7m | CAD -707.9m | CAD -744.8m | CAD -783.8m | CAD -824.7m | +5.2% |
| Less increase in working capital | CAD -133.0m | CAD -140.0m | CAD -147.3m | CAD -155.0m | CAD -163.1m | +5.2% |
| Free cashflow to firm | CAD 1.0bn | CAD 1.1bn | CAD 1.1bn | CAD 1.2bn | CAD 1.2bn | +5.2% |
| Discount factor | 0.9727 | 0.9203 | 0.8708 | 0.8239 | 0.7796 | - |
| Present value | CAD 978.6m | CAD 974.3m | CAD 970.0m | CAD 965.7m | CAD 961.5m | -0.4% |
| Present Value Of The Forecast | CAD 4.8bn | |||||
Discount Rate
Source shown per component. All overridable above.
| Risk-free rate | 3.30% | CAD assumption - no free live source available for this market (assumption) |
| Equity risk premium | 5.50% | Market assumption |
| Beta | 0.561 | Reported 0.345, pulled toward 1.0 (Blume) |
| Cost of equity | 6.39% | Risk-free + beta x equity risk premium |
| Cost of debt | 3.68% | Interest expense / average total debt |
| Market capitalisation | CAD 19.1bn | 80.6% of capital |
| Total debt | CAD 4.6bn | 19.4% of capital, book value as a proxy |
| Tax rate | 24.2% | Effective, capped at statutory |
| WACC | 5.69% | 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%
86% of EV
- Forecast FCFF, final year
- CAD 1.2bn
- Capex at depreciation, working capital in reinvestment
- CAD 1.6bn
- Less reinvestment at g/ROIC (22.3% of NOPAT)
- CAD -347.9m
- Capitalised
- CAD 1.2bn
- ROIC (reported)
- 11.2%
- Terminal value, undiscounted
- CAD 39.0bn
- Terminal value, discounted
- CAD 30.4bn
- Enterprise value
- CAD 35.3bn
- Less net debt
- CAD 4.5bn
- Equity value
- CAD 30.7bn
Exit at 11.4x EBITDA
83% of EV
- Terminal value, undiscounted
- CAD 30.6bn
- Terminal value, discounted
- CAD 23.8bn
- Enterprise value
- CAD 28.7bn
- Less net debt
- CAD 4.5bn
- Equity value
- CAD 24.2bn
Spread between methods: 24%.
Sensitivity
Value per share (CAD) by discount rate and long-run growth.
| Long-run growth | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discount rate | 1.50% | 2.00% | 2.50% | 3.00% | 3.50% |
| 3.69% | 237.56 | 292.90 | 394.55 | 643.24 | 2202.92 |
| 4.69% | 156.48 | 176.65 | 205.92 | 252.37 | 337.65 |
| 5.69% | 114.14 | 123.44 | 135.58 | 152.14 | 176.15 |
| 6.69% | 88.15 | 92.94 | 98.82 | 106.23 | 115.89 |
| 7.69% | 70.57 | 73.17 | 76.22 | 79.88 | 84.37 |
Outlined: this model. Green text: above today's price of 91.46. 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 | 5.2% | -2.7% | -7.9pp |
| EBIT margin | 6.8% | 4.8% | -2.0pp |
| Discount rate | 5.7% | 7.0% | +1.3pp |
Live formulas, not pasted numbers - edit a driver and the workbook reprices.
Yahoo Finance and RBA data. General information, not advice. Methodology.