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Teuer Furniture A Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Case Solution

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2586 2038 Words (8 Pages) Mitchell A. Petersen Kellogg School of Management : KEL778
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Teuer Furniture is a privately held, medium-sized chain of upmarket home furnishings stores based in the United States. The company weathered the economic downturn and had regained its financial footing by the end of 2012. A number of the company's long-term investors have wanted to pay out their shares now that the company is more financially secure. This is the first time Teuer's stock has been repurchased; the company has been paying dividends since 2009. Jennifer Jerabek, the company's chief financial officer, and her team have been tasked with evaluating Teuer using a discounted cash flow technique. Despite the fact that Teuer Furniture was a private company, the investors' interest in the company was a minor part of their overall fortune for all but a few members of management. Teuer calculated its discount rate using the capital asset pricing methodology. Teuer's own beta could not be calculated directly because it is a private company. Instead, the finance team calculated the beta for a few publicly traded home furnishings companies and utilized that as a proxy for Teuer's beta.

Following questions are answered in this case study solution

  1. Construct pro forma financials: to value Teuer Furniture you need to construct pro forma income statement and balance sheet. Use the assumptions and data from case. 

  2. Value the firm using discounted cash flow method by constructing the cash flow from assets for six years (2013 to 2018). You should not include the 2012 cash flows. You will need to include a terminal value in your valuation. Initially, assume that the long-term growth rate of Teuer Furniture’s cash flows is 3.5% and that the firm’s cost of capital is 12.1%. What is the value of Teuer Furniture on a per-share basis?

  3. Evaluate the key assumptions. The value of Teuer that you determined is a function of the assumptions made by you. Your base case valuation should be built upon the forecasts of Jerabek’s team. Discounted cash flow analysis depends upon a large number of assumptions. You can change the assumptions where you think it is appropriate. If you do make changes, explain the reasons you did so – especially with the most crucial assumptions/factors. An assumption may be considered crucial when it is both empirically relevant (i.e., your valuation result will change substantially) and cannot be precisely measured

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Case Analysis for Teuer Furniture A Discounted Cash Flow Valuation

1. Construct pro forma financials: to value Teuer Furniture you need to construct pro forma income statement and balance sheet. Use the assumptions and data from case. 

Following is the Pro Forma Income statement for Teuer Furniture:

 

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

Sales

       148,218

       164,987

       181,865

       199,509

       217,418

       231,340

       242,103

       250,865

Cost of Goods Sold

-        61,955

-        69,792

-        76,921

-        84,014

-        90,425

-        94,808

-        97,521

-        99,593

SGA

-        21,253

-        23,291

-        25,681

-        28,120

-        30,400

-        32,085

-        33,241

-        34,118

Advertising

-        10,744

-        12,235

-        13,458

-        14,728

-        15,973

-        16,852

-        17,517

-        18,062

Depreciation

-          1,450

-          1,084

-          1,373

-          1,959

-          2,631

-          2,559

-          2,178

-          1,828

Lase (Stores)

-          9,320

-        10,561

-        11,548

-        12,307

-        13,031

-        13,229

-        13,497

-        13,894

Corp Expenses

-          7,411

-          8,249

-          9,093

-          9,975

-        10,871

-        11,567

-        12,105

-        12,543

Taxes

-        14,434

-        15,910

-        17,516

-        19,362

-        21,635

-        24,096

-        26,418

-        28,330

Net Income

          21,651

          23,865

          26,275

          29,044

          32,452

          36,144

          39,626

          42,497

Teuer's sales growth slows as fewer stores are opened (on a percentage basis), and existing stores' sales growth slows as they mature. The decrease in the rate of sales growth, on the other hand, is not uniform. It drops from 93 percent in 2007 to 15 percent in 2009, then rises to 23 percent in 2010. Another method for forecasting sales is to start with the economy's growth rate and work your way down to the firm's growth rate. Teuer's sales are affected by the business cycle because it sells durable goods (its beta is greater than 1). When the economy is doing well, furniture sales are predicted to climb faster than the economy, and when the economy is doing poorly, furniture sales are likely to fall quicker. As Teuer's stores mature and it opens fewer stores, sales growth is expected to slow; no new stores are expected to open after 2015. Teuer's principal expense is the cost of items sold (e.g., purchasing furniture).

For each store, the cost of goods sold to sales ratio (CGS/sales) was computed. As Teuer's stores mature and it opens fewer stores, sales growth is expected to slow; no new stores are expected to open after 2015. Teuer's principal expense is the cost of items sold (e.g., purchasing furniture). For each store, the cost of goods sold to sales ratio (CGS/sales) was computed. Teuer may begin with low prices to attract clients, then gradually raise prices as customers become more familiar with and loyal to Teuer's goods. As a result, the drop in the CGS/sales ratio is actually a rise in the markup over time (i.e., an increase in the retail price)

Following is the pro forma balance sheet of Teuer Furniture:

 

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts Receivable

          48,200

          53,456

          58,924

          64,641

          70,444

          74,954

          78,441

Inventory

          33,343

          36,614

          39,991

          43,042

          45,128

          46,420

          47,406

Total current assets

          81,543

          90,070

          98,915

       107,683

       115,572

       121,374

       125,847

PPE

            3,920

            5,203

            7,155

            9,310

            7,440

            5,203

            3,641

Total assets

          85,463

          95,273

       106,070

       116,993

       123,012

       126,577

       129,488

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liabilities and Equity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts Payable

          11,364

          12,538

          13,694

          14,739

          15,454

          15,896

          16,234

Accrued Expenses

            1,682

            1,879

            2,057

            2,226

            2,349

            2,436

            2,505

Total Current Liabilities

          13,046

          14,417

          15,751

          16,965

          17,803

          18,332

          18,739

Debt

                  -  

                  -  

                  -  

                  -  

                  -  

                  -  

                  -  

Equity

          72,417

          80,856

          90,319

       100,028

       105,209

       108,245

       110,751

Total Liabilities and Equity

          85,463

          95,273

       106,070

       116,993

       123,012

       126,577

       129,490

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