WEIR.L · LSE · Industrials
Weir PLC
Also onConsensus Drift
Implied value per share
GBp 1154.12
Market price
GBp 2620.00
Implied upside
-55.9%
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 (GBP). Outflows negative.
| Line | FY26 | FY27 | FY28 | FY29 | FY30 | CAGR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | GBP 2.6bn | GBP 2.6bn | GBP 2.7bn | GBP 2.7bn | GBP 2.7bn | +1.2% |
| EBIT | GBP 405.3m | GBP 410.3m | GBP 415.3m | GBP 420.4m | GBP 425.6m | +1.2% |
| NOPAT | GBP 310.9m | GBP 314.7m | GBP 318.5m | GBP 322.5m | GBP 326.4m | +1.2% |
| Add depreciation & amortisation | GBP 116.6m | GBP 118.0m | GBP 119.5m | GBP 120.9m | GBP 122.4m | +1.2% |
| Less capital expenditure | GBP -73.1m | GBP -74.0m | GBP -74.9m | GBP -75.8m | GBP -76.8m | +1.2% |
| Less increase in working capital | GBP -5.4m | GBP -5.5m | GBP -5.5m | GBP -5.6m | GBP -5.7m | +1.2% |
| Free cashflow to firm | GBP 348.9m | GBP 353.2m | GBP 357.6m | GBP 362.0m | GBP 366.4m | +1.2% |
| Discount factor | 0.9577 | 0.8783 | 0.8055 | 0.7387 | 0.6775 | - |
| Present value | GBP 334.1m | GBP 310.2m | GBP 288.0m | GBP 267.4m | GBP 248.2m | -7.2% |
| Present Value Of The Forecast | GBP 1.4bn | |||||
Discount Rate
Source shown per component. All overridable above.
| Risk-free rate | 4.50% | GBP assumption - no free live source available for this market (assumption) |
| Equity risk premium | 5.50% | Market assumption |
| Beta | 1.057 | Reported 1.085, pulled toward 1.0 (Blume) |
| Cost of equity | 10.31% | Risk-free + beta x equity risk premium |
| Cost of debt | 5.44% | Interest expense / average total debt |
| Market capitalisation | GBP 6.8bn | 79.2% of capital |
| Total debt | GBP 1.8bn | 20.8% of capital, book value as a proxy |
| Tax rate | 23.3% | Effective, capped at statutory |
| WACC | 9.04% | 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%
66% of EV
- Forecast FCFF, final year
- GBP 366.4m
- Capex at depreciation, working capital in reinvestment
- GBP 356.7m
- Less reinvestment at g/ROIC (25.5% of NOPAT)
- GBP -90.9m
- Capitalised
- GBP 265.8m
- ROIC (reported)
- 9.8%
- Terminal value, undiscounted
- GBP 4.2bn
- Terminal value, discounted
- GBP 2.8bn
- Enterprise value
- GBP 4.3bn
- Less net debt
- GBP 1.3bn
- Equity value
- GBP 3.0bn
Exit at 15.2x EBITDA
80% of EV
- Terminal value, undiscounted
- GBP 8.3bn
- Terminal value, discounted
- GBP 5.6bn
- Enterprise value
- GBP 7.1bn
- Less net debt
- GBP 1.3bn
- Equity value
- GBP 5.8bn
Spread between methods: 64%.
Sensitivity
Value per share (GBP) by discount rate and long-run growth.
| Long-run growth | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discount rate | 1.50% | 2.00% | 2.50% | 3.00% | 3.50% |
| 7.04% | 16.62 | 17.22 | 17.94 | 18.83 | 19.95 |
| 8.04% | 13.55 | 13.84 | 14.17 | 14.56 | 15.02 |
| 9.04% | 11.28 | 11.41 | 11.54 | 11.69 | 11.86 |
| 10.04% | 9.58 | 9.63 | 9.67 | 9.72 | 9.76 |
| 11.04% | 8.32 | 8.36 | 8.40 | 8.44 | 8.48 |
Outlined: this model. Green text: above today's price of 26.20. 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 | 1.2% | 18.4% | +17.2pp |
| EBIT margin | 15.6% | 31.0% | +15.3pp |
| Discount rate | 9.0% | 5.7% | -3.3pp |
Live formulas, not pasted numbers - edit a driver and the workbook reprices.
Yahoo Finance and RBA data. General information, not advice. Methodology.