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VALUE CREATION THINKING
1© 2016 Bartley J. Madden Value Creation Thinking
Creating long-term value begins with clarity about the purpose
of the firm and about management’s core responsibilities
Bartley J. Madden
www.ValueCreationThinking.com
May 2016The most up-to-date version of this PowerPoint will be posted at SSRN.bartmadden@yahoo.com
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Madden unites the fundamentals of financial valuationwith a unique emphasis on corporate purpose, culture,and knowledge. … He provides an important contributionto our understanding of capitalism at a critical moment
and an illuminating roadmap for the future of business.
—Dominic Barton, GlobalManaging Director, McKinsey& Co.
“A free society is an engine of wealth creation … BartMadden’s Value Creation Thinking is driven by thephilosophy that an understanding of that [wealth creation]process defines a path to the long term increase ininvestor returns. … Beware the crony capitalist firmseeking profits from favors; the money is in creating valuefor customers.”
—Vernon L. Smith, ChapmanUniversity, Nobel Laureate inEconomics, 2002
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PART I Introduction• Long-term value creation
• The firm’s purpose• Management’s core responsibilities• Life-cycle valuation framework• Eastman Kodak, 3M, Illumina, Amazon,
Whole Foods, JCPenney, Intuit, Walmart• Life-cycle valuation model• Existing assets and future investments• What really causes big long-term moves in stock
prices?• Life-cycles reviews
PART II Knowledge building and reconstructing your worldviewPART III A total system approach to valuation
CONTENTS
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Vision
Survive andProsper
Win-Win Partnerships
Future Generations
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THE INTERRELATED COMPONENTS OF PURPOSE
We will strive to fulfill the firm’s vision while instilling high ethical standards throughout thefirm. We will survive and prosper by delivering a level of efficiency and innovation thatearns customer loyalty and rewards long-term shareholders. We will strive for win-winrelationships that provide value for those who partner with us in serving our customers. Wewill take care of future generations by designing our products and services, and using ourassets, consistent with environmental sustainability.
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#3Knowledge
BuildingCulture
#2ResourceEfficiency
#1Valuation
Framework
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MANAGEMENT’S CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
#1 To integrate an operationally useful valuation framework#2 To use resources efficiently and organize for continuous improvement#3 To sustain a knowledge-building culture focused on innovation
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HighInnovation Competitive Fade Mature
FailingBusiness
Model
Economic
Returns
Long-termCost ofCapital
ReinvestmentRates
FADE%
Time
LIFE-CYCLE VALUATION FRAMEWORK
The rate at which a firm’s profitability fades over time depends primarilyon management’s skill relative to competitors.
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• Understanding investor expectations impliedin current stock prices,
• making insightful forecasts of plausible future scenarioswithin the context of firms’ past performance, and
• judging the impact of management’s strategy and capital
outlays in terms of how much wealth is likely to becreated or dissipated.
THE KEY BENEFITS OF THE LIFE-CYCLEVALUATION FRAMEWORK
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The top panel displays economic returns calculated as a CFROI (cash-flow-return-on-investment). CFROIs are inflation adjusted, sometimes referred to as real as opposed to
nominal. They remove a variety of accounting distortions so the result is a more accuratereadout of “true” economic returns than the conventional RONA (return-on-net-assets).Importantly, real CFROIs are directly comparable for levels and changes over long timeperiods that include varying inflation rates. The top panel also displays the long-termcorporate average CFROI as a dark horizontal line at 6 percent to approximate the realcost of capital.
The middle panel reflects a firm’s reinvestment rate calculated as a real asset growth rate.The bottom panel indicates a firm’s total shareholder return (dividends plus priceappreciation) relative to the S&P 500 index. Out-performance is seen as a rising trend forthe relative wealth line; market-matching performance is shown as a flat trend; and under-
performance shows as a declining trend. Shareholder returns above or below the S&P 500Index are driven by firms delivering life-cycle performance (economic returns andreinvestment rates) that exceed or fall short of investors’ expectations at the beginning ofthe time period.
A FIRM’S LIFE-CYCLE TRACK RECORD HASTHREE PANELS
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Rising CFROIs6% Long-termcost of capital
Outperformed S&P 500Long-termunderperformance vs. S&P 500
EASTMAN KODAK dominated the film and camera market for decadesbut failed to adapt to changing technology (digital photography).
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Managements of high-innovation firms in the startup phase need to quickly confirm or disconfirm the criticalassumptions that determine the viability of their business model.
In the competitive-fade stage, all else equal, higher market valuations are accorded firms that are able toreinvest at high rates. But, all else is not equal, and higher reinvestment rates tend to result in faster fade ofeconomic returns over time. This is due to accelerated competition responding to a big opportunity (signaled byhigh reinvestment rates) to create wealth, plus the added difficulty of managing a fast-growing firm. In addition,a huge influence on a firm’s long-term fade is the degree of management’s success in nurturing a knowledge-building culture. Such a culture has the potential to deliver stable processes and innovation with very favorable
long-term fade, such as that exhibited by 3M.Firms in the mature stage typically are burdened by considerable bureaucracy. For mature firms, it is especiallyimportant to continually improve the efficiency of their existing businesses while simultaneously developing new,wealth-creating innovations that have the potential to scale up to a significant size— efficiency and innovationare the hallmarks of managerial skill. Small, strategic acquisitions may help by providing new skills to leveragecore competencies. However, merging with another large mature company tends to make the problem of
earning greater than cost of capital returns even more difficult to achieve.
In the failing-business-model stage, one likely constraint to improvement is a management worldview that isstrongly influenced by assumptions which are no longer valid. And such obsolete assumptions are most likelyentrenched in the firm’s culture. Getting back to earning the cost of capital, given this burden, may well requirenew management who have a different worldview and are more attuned to a changing business environmentand able to successfully restructure the firm’s operating assets and culture.
KEY POINTS FOR ANALYZING LIFE-CYCLETRACK RECORDS
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Sustained wealth-creating CFROIs
Modest asset growth rates
1960 to 2014, investor returns matched S&P 500
3M is respected for its innovative culture and remarkable maintenance ofsuperior CFROIs for 55 years.
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High innovation stage
Early investors did not expectsuch high CFROIs coupled with
high asset growth rates
ILLUMINA is the industry leader of the most technically advanced DNAsequencing machines.
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Management chose to dampenCFROIs to accommodatemassive reinvestment
AMAZON has made big investments to seize large-scale, new markets(Kindle, cloud data services, etc.)
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Very large growthin new stores inthe early years
CFROIs at or above the cost of capital
WHOLE FOODS MARKET was the pioneer in selling natural andorganic food while supporting sustainable agriculture.
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Transition to afailing business
model stage
JCPENNEY hired a new CEO in 2011 who orchestrated a radical overhaulof the firm’s retail store format. Sales plummeted and the CEO was fired.
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Big improvement in CFROIs
INTUIT sells financial software to consumers and is well known for itspurpose-driven culture that focuses on experimentation and fast learning.
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OutperformedS&P 500, 13-fold,
1980 to 1990
1980-1990
Big efficiency gains resulted in high CFROIs
20 plus years of massivenew store expansion
WALMART is a stellar example of how the combination of high CFROIsand very high asset growth creates huge shareholder value.
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● Economic returns above the cost of capital, and● reinvestment rates supportive of maintaining a
● favorable long-term fade rate.
LIFE-CYCLE PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE
PURPOSE CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Vision
Survive and
Prosper
Win-Win Partnerships
Future Generations
#3Knowledge
BuildingCulture
#2ResourceEfficiency
#1Valuation
Framework
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HighInnovation Competitive Fade Mature
FailingBusiness
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EconomicReturns
Long-termCost ofCapital
ReinvestmentRates
FADE%
Time
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USE LIFE-CYCLE VARIABLES TO FORECASTLONG-TERM NET CASH RECEIPTS
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Fade
Economic
Returns
ReinvestmentRates
Net Cash Receipts t(1+ Investors’ Discount Rate t)t
WarrantedValue =
LIFE
t =1
3
2
1
Today’sAsset Base
LIFE-CYCLE VALUATION MODEL
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PV Factor 0.9524 0.9070 (A) PV Existing Assets
PV Today 95.24 + 90.70 185.94
NCRs Existing Assets 100 100
+ 1 year +2 year
Today
(B) PV Future Investments
PV Today -95.24 + 136.05 40.81
NCRs Future Investments 150
-100
Today
TOTAL FIRM (A) + (B)
VALUE TODAY 226.75
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NET CASH RECEIPTS (NCRs) FROM EXISTING
ASSETS AND FUTURE INVESTMENTS
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Stock market valuations are attuned to ROIs on new investments. All else equal, the morecapital reinvested in the future that achieves ROIs greater than the opportunity cost ofcapital, the higher the firm’s market value. Consequently, the middle panel of the life-cycle
charts which displays real asset growth rates is especially important for high CFROI firms. A firm’s management, board, and shareholders should understand what a current stockprice implies for the firm’s future investments in order to better judge the economicsoundness of management’s planned capital expenditures. Business as usual is typicallynot strategically sound for firms priced with significant negative values for futureinvestments.
A % Future scorecard, using current Credit Suisse HOLT data for 1,000 U.S. industrialfirms, is available at www.ValueCreationThinking.com
% FUTURE
Total Firm Value - Value Existing Assets Value of Future Investments
Total Firm Value Total Firm Value% FUTURE = =
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WHAT REALLY CAUSES BIG MOVES INSTOCK PRICES - WALMART 1980 TO 2000
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To understand cause and effect concerning significant excess (positive/negative)
shareholder returns, begin by calibrating market expectations at the beginning ofthe selected time period; e.g., year-end 1979. Then compare that to the actuallife-cycle performance during the period (1980 to 1990). If a firm deliversperformance significantly greater than the market expected, its shareholdersalmost always will have earned positive excess returns.
The next slide shows dashed lines as the expected future fade of CFROIs andreal asset growth rates built into Walmart’s year-end 1979 stock price. With aknown market value for Walmart and an estimated investors’ discount rate atyear-end 1979, the implied future life-cycle fades were calculated using the life-
cycle valuation model. In a sense, we use the valuation model in reverse.Instead of calculating a warranted value based on forecasted fade rates forCFROIs and asset growth, we derive implied future fade rates.
WALMART'S TOTAL SHAREHOLDER RETURNSVS S&P 500 INDEX, 1980-1990
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MARKET EXPECTATIONS
WALMART YEAR-END 1979 Actual CFROIs
Actual Real AssetGrowth Rates
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Boards of directors need to coordinate with management andimplement a common valuation language that is best suited to:
(1) analyze the impact on the firm’s value of major, board-leveldecisions, especially those that deal with strategy andresource allocation, and
(2) communicate to shareholders why they should be confidentthat major decisions are likely to create long-term value.
A strong case can be made that the proposed Life-Cycle Review,highlighted on the next two slides, is the preferred means to meetthis need.
LIFE-CYCLE REVIEWS
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#1 Value-relevant track records Display value-relevant track records for the firm and its majorbusiness units. Basically, this entails the top two panels of the life-cycle histories. It requires theestimation of economic returns and the calculation of reinvestment rates for each of the firm’s majorbusiness units. Management needs to work through the tradeoffs involved with accuracy versus
simplicity. Details about the calculation of economic returns, such as the capitalization and amortizationof R&D expenditures, need to be explained. Investors should be equipped to reproduce the economicreturn calculation or to use alternative procedures if they so choose. Moreover, reinvestment rates needto be broken down to show organic growth as well as the impact of acquisitions and divestitures.
#2 Strategy and reinvestment Explain both the strategy for value creation for each business unit and
the planned expenditures (or divestments) in the context of the unit’s past performance (its life-cycletrack record). What are the key assumptions that need to be confirmed or disconfirmed for startupbusinesses? Why should expenditures be committed for non-startup businesses that have steadfastlyfailed to earn the cost of capital?
#3 Intangible assets Provide an overview of how the firm’s major intangible assets are utilized toimprove business performance. Intangible assets include brand names, reputation, patents, R&D,cultural rules, processes, tacit know-how, employee motivation, and myriad other ways of coordinatingwork to improve efficiency and promote innovation. They are the keys to value creation for 21 st centurycorporations and yet we are in the first inning of a very long game to understand how to nurture andeventually optimize their use.
COMPONENTS OF LIFE-CYCLE REVIEWS
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1. Gain more long-term investors in the firm’s shareholderbase
2. Earn the right to purposively depress quarterly results tocreate long-term value
3. Improve communications with a common valuationlanguage
4. Apply what is learned from life-cycle valuation principlesto executive compensation
5. Get engaged with a learning process about intangibleassets
THE BENEFITS OF LIFE-CYCLE REVIEWS
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The knowledge-building process can be analyzed in theform of a knowledge-building loop. Adoption of therecommended four core beliefs will upgrade one’sworldview, thereby leading to substantial gains inknowledge-building capability.
The next two slides illustrate the knowledge-building loop
and the contrast between a dysfunctional culture anda high-performance culture.
PART IIKNOWLEDGE BUILDING AND
RECONSTRUCTING YOUR WORLDVIEW
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PERCEPTIONS
WORLDVIEW
FEEDBACK
ACTIONS ANDCONSEQUENCES
KNOWLEDGEBASE
PURPOSES
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DysfunctionalCulture
Management’sWorldview
High PerformanceCulture
My work provides apaycheck, nothing more.
Vision My work helps me live apurposeful life.
I don’t trust management. Commitment
to employeesI trust management.
Avoid identifying problemsand challenging people’sthinking. Better to reduceaccounting costs in smallbut fail-safe ways.
Innovation andefficiency
Experimentation andsystematic problem solvingis how we make progress.
Do whatever it takes tomake accounting targets.Never “rat out” a coworker.
Ethical behavior
Ethical standards (includingintegrity) are nonnegotiableand a code of honor that wepractice proudly.
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SHAPING THE FIRM’S CULTURE
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1. Past experiences shape assumptions.
2. Language is perception’s silent partner.
3. Improve performance by identifying and fixing a system’s
key constraints.
4. Behavior is control of perception.
The next seven slides highlight an application of the four core beliefs.
ABBREVIATED DESCRIPTIONOF THE FOUR CORE BELIEFS
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BUSINESS NEED – INNOVATE TO IMPROVEPRODUCTIVITY OF DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES
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1. PAST EXPERIENCES SHAPE ASSUMPTIONS
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In the past, productivity was improved by helpingworkers locate and retrieve goods faster
Improved stacking arrangements and the likerepresent incremental innovations
Radical innovations often result from closeexamination of rarely, if ever, questioned assumptions
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2. LANGUAGE IS PERCEPTION’S SILENTPARTNER
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Obsolete assumptions often hidden by language
“Locate and retrieve goods” assumes the best system
has workers move to goods
Is there a better way?
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3. IMPROVE PERFORMANCE BY IDENTIFYINGAND FIXING A SYSTEM’S KEY CONTRAINTS
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Key constraint – time for workers to locate andretrieve goods.
Fix constraint – move goods to workers usingKIVA robotic shelves.
Amazon acquired KIVA systems in 2012.
Instead of processing 100 items/hour, workers now
process 300 items/hour in Amazon warehouses.
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THE KIVA SYSTEM
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KIVA SYSTEMS INITIAL MARKETING PROBLEM
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KIVA solution requires total replacement of acustomer’s existing system.
Customer is purchasing a radically different systemfrom a small startup company.
Very bad consequences if KIVA system fails tofunction properly.
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#4 FOCUS ON WHAT PEOPLE ARE
CONTROLLING FOR
A potential customer is controlling for the downside
if the KIVA installation fails.
Full refund if Kiva fails to complete the installation ontime or fails to achieve a specified performance level.
Competitors did not provide a total system/completesolution and therefore were incapable of matchingKIVA’s offer.
KIVA’S SOLUTION
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• Reconstructing Your Worldview: The Four Core Beliefs YouNeed to Solve Complex Business Problems , Madden (2014).
• YouTube video “Reconstructing Your Worldview in FiveMinutes,” reviews Amazon’s KIVA robotic system.
• YouTube video (35 minutes) “Reconstructing Your Worldview,”explains the four core beliefs with application to a variety ofproblems.
• Future videos will be posted at www.ValueCreationThinking.com.
ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL
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A valuation model is a mechanism to generate an expected long-term net cash receipt (NCR) stream forthe firm and then translate this into a present value. Why not simply specify each year’s NCR over thelong term? This would result in users of the model then having no benchmarks to gauge the plausibility
of the specified NCRs, especially those in the distant future. The valuation model should facilitate alearning process, and not just be a logically sound application of discounted cash flow mathematics.With a learning process in mind, there is a compelling rationale to use the three life-cycle variables togenerate the model’s NCR stream. Users can then study life-cycle track records (the past) and make
judgments about likely future track records. The same language is used to understand andcommunicate about the past and the future. With such a common language in place, users can much
more easily explain and discuss with others why they are using a particular set of optimistic/mostlikely/pessimistic forecasts. Different opinions can be debated in a useful way. Experience suggeststhat the more experience users gain with analyses of historical life-cycle track records, the better theirforecasting skill will be with future life cycles. In summary, the life-cycle valuation model and globaldatabase are designed to enable users to better understand firms’ past performance, pinpoint keyvaluation issues, decode market expectations, and help judge the plausibility of forecasts .
The life-cycle valuation model using CFROIs for economic returns was developed at Callard, Madden & Associates in the 1970s and Credit Suisse HOLT continues this research program today. Thiscommercial research program is based on ten critical ideas, many of which differ from mainstreamfinance in important ways. The following slides explain these ten ideas.
PART IIIA TOTAL SYSTEM APPROACH TO VALUATION
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#1 Adjustment for inflation/deflation
Key life-cycle variables should be adjusted for changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit andtherefore expressed as real variables. This is essential for the analysis of long-term time series so thatlevels and trends have meaning and are not distorted by inflation/deflation—especially important fortrends in economic returns (e.g., CFROIs) and discount rates.
#2 Project economic return
A project economic return is the real, achieved return-on-investment (ROI) for a completed project. Thisinternal rate of return is calculated after converting all after-tax cash outflows and inflows into units of
constant purchasing power. (In the U.S., this would be done with the GDP Deflator series.)
#3 Cross-sectional economic return
A cross-sectional economic return is calculated from balance sheet and income statements for a givenyear and is consistent with the concept of a real ROI. A RONA (return-on-net-assets) and a CFROI
(cash-flow-return-on-investment) are cross-sectional economic returns. Think of the firm as an ongoingportfolio of projects and the conventional accounting statements capture a cross-section of the status ofthese projects at a single point in time. A plot of the time series of cross-sectional economic returns isused to infer the level of average project economic returns being achieved by the firm.
CRITICAL IDEAS 1, 2, AND 3
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FIRM CAPITAL OWNERS
DebtRepayments
ShareRepurchases
Dividends
InterestPayments
NewDebt
StockSale
GrossCashFlow
Outflowsfor New
Investments
CapitalExpenditures
Increase NetWorking Capital
Firm'sNCR
GrossCashFlow
=- Outflows
NewCapitalOutflowCash
Inflow
CapitalOwners’
NCR
CashInflow =-
CashOutflow
NCR NCR
- -
4 NET CASH RECEIPTSCAN BE CALCULATED IN TWO WAYS
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From a logical perspective, there is a compelling rationale to applysystems thinking to a valuation model. With the life-cycle model shownon the next slide, the forecast of future NCRs is highly sensitive to theprocedures used to assign fade rates for economic returns andreinvestment rates. Consequently, the assignment of the investors’discount rate should be contingent on how fade rates are forecasted. In
other words, the valuation model is a package deal—a total system inwhich the handling of one component affects other components in thesystem. Both the early work at Callard Madden & Associates and CreditSuisse HOLT’s current global database use investors’ discount rates thatare based on a market-implied process which is in tune with the fadeforecasting routines used.
5 SYSTEMS THINKING
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Fade
EconomicReturns
Reinvestment Rates
Net Cash Receipts t(1+ Investors’ Discount Rate
t)t
WarrantedValue
=
LIFE
t =1
Today’sAsset Base
● Tangible Assets● Intangible Assets
Investors' discount rate candiffer from the long-term
cost of capital
INVESTORS’ DISCOUNT RATE SHOULD BE INTUNE WITH FORECASTS OF FADE
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How might you assign a discount rate in order to estimate the warranted value ofa new municipal bond offering that has not yet been issued? The expected
NCRs are already known in terms of interest and principal payments over the lifeof the bond. With an assigned discount rate, you can calculate a warrantedvalue, which is the expected market price for the bond when it starts trading.
A reasonable approach is to first analyze a large universe of traded municipal
bonds and observe the yield-to-maturity and the credit quality of the sponsoringentities. Based on the current market prices for these bonds, you could then plotyield-to-maturity (i.e., the market-implied discount rate) versus credit quality.Then run a regression equation with yield-to-maturity as the dependent variableand credit quality as the independent variable. The resulting regression line
provides an estimated discount rate for a specified level of credit quality. Youwould see a higher discount rate for lower quality and vice versa. The samelogic applies to estimating investor discount rates for individual firms. Such aprocess requires that each firm in a sample universe of firms have forecastedNCR streams based on standardized fade forecast routines.
6 FORWARD-LOOKING INVESTORS’DISCOUNT RATE
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Since this research program began in the 1970s, a particularly usefulguidepost has been the value chart. It plots annual warranted valuesalongside actual historical stock prices for a firm. The value chart showshow closely the current “state of the art” model (including fadeforecasting routines) works to replicate historical prices for firms.
Value charts covering a large universe of firms provide insightful
feedback about the accuracy of the model and ideas for researchingpotential “fixes” to improve accuracy.
Firms with systematic and repetitive, year-after-year over- or under-tracking of warranted values versus actual stock prices is whereresearch attention should be given .
7 EVALUATING THE VALUATION MODEL
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According to the mathematically elegant CAPM theory, which has extraordinarily deep
roots in mainstream finance, a firm’s equity cost of capital equals the risk-free rate plus theproduct of a stock’s Beta multiplied by the risk premium of the overall equity market. Thatrisk premium is the expected return of the equity market over the risk-free rate. But,application of the CAPM equation requires two inputs that are extraordinarily difficult to naildown with any precision—Beta and the risk premium. In principle, these are both forward-looking variables; but, in practice, they are estimated from backward-looking historical data.
Huge variations in the calculated equity cost of capital can result from plausible but sharplydifferent values for these two variables. This translates into huge variations in calculatedwarranted values. Even though academic research has made improvements to thestandard CAPM-Beta procedure, this standard procedure still holds considerable sway in
corporate finance textbooks. A particularly strong argument against use of CAPM-Beta ispresented throughout the 5 th edition of Valuation and Common Sense by Professor PabloFernandez at IESE Business School, University of Navarra. See especially his chaptersentitled “Beta = 1 does a better job than calculated betas” and “CAPM: an absurd model.”
8 AVOID USING A CAPM-BETA EQUITYCOST OF CAPITAL
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Capitalizing and amortizing intangible assets is necessary if such treatmentmaterially improves the insights contained in life-cycle track records. R&Doutlays have long been capitalized and amortized in the HOLT databasebecause this is necessary to produce meaningful life-cycle track records for firmswith big R&D outlays. For example, the middle panel (real asset growth rates) ofthe life-cycle track records for biopharmaceutical firms is simply misleading ifR&D is not part of the asset base.
Nevertheless, the estimated economic life used for R&D must be considered asonly a rough approximation; but that approximation is better than ignoring theissue. For those intangible assets in which the estimate of a useful life is purespeculation, it is far better to handle in an alternative way. That is, the morevaluable the intangible asset (e.g., brand names, patents, etc.), the morefavorable the future fade rate.
9 INTANGIBLES AND THE ART OF LIFE-CYCLE FADE FORECASTING
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The ten critical ideas are foundational to the long-term commercial research program thatdiffers from the way academic research progresses. A key ingredient was feedback fromastute portfolio managers and security analysts with detailed country-specific and firm-specific knowledge. They have a vested interest in improvements in the valuation modeland its related database that they subscribe to and use for decision making. Theirfeedback is focused on identifying problems whose solutions can produce practical resultsin terms of better explaining levels and changes in stock prices worldwide as well as
improving forecasts. Academic research in this area favors mathematically elegant theoretical constructs andadvanced statistical techniques geared to publishing journal articles. In contrast, thecommercial research program is expansive in terms of firms analyzed and embracescontinual improvement in measuring economic returns, improving fade forecasts and
investors’ discount rates, plus problem solving keyed to deviations between firms’ historicalwarranted values and their actual stock prices. All this is applied to a large universe offirms worldwide which have different accounting standards and different historical inflationenvironments. The following slide diagrams this continual improvement process.
10 A SYSTEMS-BASED VALUATIONRESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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Value Chart
Implement
improvement
Test proposedimprovement
Accounting fixes
Conceptualmodel fixes
Life-CycleTrack Record
Global databasecovering a large
universe of companies
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Connecting firms’ financial performance to stock market valuations is a very complex task.One neglected area in mainstream finance is the construction of simulation models (Excelspreadsheets) that tie known time series of life-cycle variables to detailed accountingstatements through time. For example, this could be a fruitful path to a betterunderstanding of the costs and benefits of intangible assets—a wickedly difficult problemfor sure.
The early Callard Madden & Associates work began with a model corporation thatconnected business economics to accounting data. It constructed the firm as a portfolio ofongoing projects with known characteristics for project ROIs and a specified capital
structure. With an inputted environment of time series data for inflation/deflation, nominalinterest rates, and real project ROIs and real investment rates, the as-reported accountingstatements were produced each period. The CFROI metric was developed to use the as-reported financial statements to mirror the known, steady-state project ROIs. The next twoslides show: (1) 3M CFROI calculation for 2014 and (2) a simulated earnings/commonequity (book value) using the model corporation with actual U.S. data for inflation/deflationrates and nominal interest rates covering approximately 100 years. The real project ROIswere maintained at 6 percent for every year. The gyrating path of the calculatedearnings/common equity over time should give pause to mathematical model builders whoignore real world complexities like the impact of inflation and deflation on historical-costaccounting statements.
FUTURE RESEARCH
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Net Income (Before Extraordinary Items)- Special Items (after tax) CFROI CALCULATION, 3M 2014
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Special Items (after tax)+ Depreciation/Amortization Expenses+ Interest Expense+ R&D Expense+ Rental Expense+ Minority Interest Expense+ Net Pension Cash Flow Adjustment+ LIFO charge to FIFO Inventory+ Monetary Holding Gain/Loss
- Equity Method Investment Income
Book Assets+ Accumulated Depreciation+ Inflation Adjustment to Gross Plant+ LIFO Inventory Reserve
+ Capitalized Operating Leases+ Capitalized R&D- Equity Method Investments- Pension Assets- Goodwill- Non-Debt Monetary Liabilities & Def. Taxes
Inflation AdjustedGross Cash Flow$8,711
$8,791Release of Non-Depreciating
Assets
12 Year Asset Life
CFROI = 15.2%
$48,350Inflation AdjustedGross Operating
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CFROI CALCULATION, 3M 2014References
CFROI Valuation , Bartley J. Madden (1999)Beyond Earnings , David Holland and
Bryant Matthews, forthcoming
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