DCF & WACC
After you compute terminal value by either method, what do you do with it next?
Model answer
You discount it back to the present at WACC. Both formulas produce a value as of the END of the final forecast year (year N), not today's value. So PV of TV = TV / (1 + WACC)^N (or using the…
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