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โ Dimitry Nakhla | Babylon Capitalยฎ
A sober valuation analysis on $ASML ๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธ

โ€ขNTM P/E Ratio: 32.97x
โ€ข10-Year Mean: 31.08x

As you can see, $ASML appears to be trading near fair value

Going forward, investors can receive ~5% LESS in earnings per share ๐Ÿง ***

Before we get into valuation, letโ€™s take a look at why $ASML is an excellent business (*Financials in USD*)

BALANCE SHEETโœ…
โ€ขCash & Short Term Inv: $5.38B
โ€ขLong-Term Debt: $4.94B

$ASML has a strong balance sheet & 32x FFO Interest Coverage

RETURN ON CAPITALโœ…
โ€ข2019: 17.5%
โ€ข2020: 21.6%
โ€ข2021: 43.8%
โ€ข2022: 48.0%
โ€ข2023: 48.7%
โ€ขLTM: 39.7%

RETURN ON EQUITYโœ…
โ€ข2019: 21.4%
โ€ข2020: 26.9%
โ€ข2021: 49.0%
โ€ข2022: 59.4%
โ€ข2023: 70.4%
โ€ขLTM: 48.6%

$ASML has excellent return metrics, highlighting the financial efficiency of the business

REVENUESโœ…
โ€ข2013: $7.22B
โ€ข2023: $30.42B
โ€ขCAGR: 15.46%

FREE CASH FLOW*
โ€ขSimilar to $TSM, $ASML FCF is very sporadic due to heavy capital expenditures & isnโ€™t necessarily the most reliable way to analyze the companyโ€™s value

NORMALIZED EPSโœ…
โ€ข2013: $3.17
โ€ข2023: $21.65
โ€ขCAGR: 21.18%

SHARE BUYBACKSโœ…
โ€ข2018 Shares Outstanding: 0.43B
โ€ขLTM Shares Outstanding: 0.39B

By reducing its shares outstanding ~9.3%, $ASML increased its EPS by ~10.2% (assuming 0 growth)

MARGINSโœ…
โ€ขLTM Gross Margins: 51.4%
โ€ขLTM Operating Margins: 30.7%
โ€ขLTM Net Income Margins: 26.5%

***NOW TO VALUATION ๐Ÿง 

As stated above, investors can expect to receive ~5% LESS in EPS

Using Benjamin Grahamโ€™s 2G rule of thumb, $ASML has to grow earnings at a 16.48% CAGR over the next several years to justify its valuation

Today, analysts anticipate 2024 - 2026 EPS growth over the next few years to be slightly more than the (16.49%) required growth rate:

2024E: $20.53 (-5.1% YoY) *FY Dec
2025E: $32.43 (58.0% YoY)
2026E: $37.57 (15.9% YoY)

$ASML has a decent track record of meeting analyst estimates ~2 years out, but letโ€™s assume $ASML ends 2026 with $37.57 in EPS & see its CAGR potential assuming different multiples

32x P/E: $1202.24๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~13.2% CAGR

31x P/E: $1164.67๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~11.8% CAGR

30x P/E: $1127.10๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~10.4% CAGR

29x P/E: $1089.53๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~8.9% CAGR

As you can see, $ASML appears to have attractive return potential if we assume greater or equal to 30x earnings (slightly below the 10-year mean & justified given its quality & growth rate)

However we should be aware that, while $ASML is a wide-moat business, weโ€™ll be relying on fairly aggressive growth estimates in 2025 & these kinds of estimates should always be taken with caution

Today at $895๐Ÿ’ต $ASML appears to be a good consideration for investment, although without much of a margin of safety

Therefore, itโ€™s wise to piece into the position (especially as semiconductor related stocks are volatile), e.g. 1/3 at $895๐Ÿ’ต, 1/3 at $800๐Ÿ’ต, & 1/3 at $700๐Ÿ’ต

This way, you ensure some margin of safety while also positioning yourself to โ€œwin-winโ€ if the stock moves up or down in the short-term ๐Ÿ’ต

#stocks #investing
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๐ƒ๐ˆ๐’๐‚๐‹๐Ž๐’๐”๐‘๐„โ€ผ๏ธ: ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐Ž๐“ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐€๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž. ๐๐š๐›๐ฒ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅยฎ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐›๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ ๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ.

๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐จ๐›๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ฒ.
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RT @DimitryNakhla: A sober valuation analysis on $V ๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿฝโ€โ™‚๏ธ

โ€ขNTM P/E Ratio: 26.35x
โ€ข10-Year Mean: 28.08x

โ€ขNTM FCF Yield: 3.97%
โ€ข10-Year Mean: 3.82%

As you can see, $V appears to be trading below fair value

Going forward, investors can receive ~6% MORE in earnings per share & ~4% MORE in FCF per share ๐Ÿง ***

Before we get into valuation, letโ€™s take a look at why $V is a quality business

BALANCE SHEETโœ…
โ€ขCash & Short-Term Inv: $20.13B
โ€ขLong-Term Debt: $20.78B

$V has a great balance sheet, an AA- S&P Credit Rating, & 32x FFO Interest Coverage Ratio

RETURN ON CAPITALโœ…
โ€ข2019: 27.5%
โ€ข2020: 21.4%
โ€ข2021: 24.2%
โ€ข2022: 30.7%
โ€ข2023: 33.7%

RETURN ON EQUITYโœ…
โ€ข2019: 35.2%
โ€ข2020: 30.7%
โ€ข2021: 33.4%
โ€ข2022: 40.9%
โ€ข2023: 46.5%

$V has strong return metrics, highlighting the financial efficiency of the business

REVENUESโœ…
โ€ข2013: $11.78B
โ€ข2023: $32.65B
โ€ขCAGR: 10.73%

FREE CASH FLOWโœ…
โ€ข2013: $2.55B
โ€ข2023: $19.70B
โ€ขCAGR: 22.68%

NORMALIZED EPSโœ…
โ€ข2013: $1.90
โ€ข2023: $8.77
โ€ขCAGR: 16.52%

SHARE BUYBACKSโœ…
โ€ข2013 Shares Outstanding: 2.62B
โ€ขLTM Shares Outstanding: 2.02B

By reducing its shares outstanding 23%, $V increased its EPS by 30% (assuming 0 growth)

MARGINSโœ…
โ€ขLTM Gross Margins: 97.8%
โ€ขLTM Operating Margins: 67.3%
โ€ขLTM Net Income Margins: 53.0%

***NOW TO VALUATION ๐Ÿง 

As stated above, investors can expect to receive ~6% MORE in EPS & ~4% MORE in FCF per share

Using Benjamin Grahamโ€™s 2G rule of thumb, $V has to grow earnings at a 13.18% CAGR over the next several years to justify its valuation

Today, analysts anticipate 2024 - 2026 EPS growth over the next few years to be slightly less than the (13.18%) required growth rate:

2024E: $9.96 (13.6% YoY) *FY Sep
2025E: $11.19 (12.4% YoY)
2026E: $12.66 (13.1% YoY)

$V has an excellent track record of meeting analyst estimates ~2 years out, so letโ€™s assume $V ends 2026 with $12.66 in EPS & see its CAGR potential assuming different multiples

29x P/E: $367.14๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~14.6% CAGR

28x P/E: $354.48๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~12.9% CAGR

27x P/E: $341.82๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~11.2% CAGR

26x P/E: $329.16๐Ÿ’ต โ€ฆ ~9.3% CAGR

As you can see, $V appears to have attractive return potential if we assume >27x earnings, a multiple near its 10-year mean & more importantly โ€” a multiple justified by its growth rate AND quality โ€” even assuming a 36x multiple, $V is still fairly attractive

I consider $V one of the best businesses in the world & as Warren Buffett says:

โ€œItโ€™s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful priceโ€

$V is even trading at a valuation slightly better than just a fair price

Today at $272.50๐Ÿ’ต $V appears to be a worthwhile consideration for investment

If I were adding shares of $V today, Iโ€™d also leave some extra capital to accumulate even more shares closer to 24x (if it gets there) โ€” roughly 9% below todayโ€™s price or at ~$248๐Ÿ’ต

#stocks #investing
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๐ƒ๐ˆ๐’๐‚๐‹๐Ž๐’๐”๐‘๐„โ€ผ๏ธ: ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐Ž๐“ ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐€๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž. ๐๐š๐›๐ฒ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅยฎ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐›๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ ๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ.

๐ˆ๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐จ๐›๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ฒ.
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Fackman tweets and Putin interview responses ๐Ÿคข

Bill Ackman right now - ๎จ€ Q-Cap ๎จ€
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War is extremely bullish for #copper.

Take the NATO 155 mm artillery shell, for example.

According to the article, "Every shell contains 0.5 kg of copper, and Ukraine is firing up to 7,000 per day."

Wow.

"They can build a new mine in Ukraine with all that copper scrap.โ€
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Something that nobody wants to talk about.

What if Chinese copper demand from housing doesn't matter over the next 5-10 years?

What if they replace that demand with militarization/stockpiling?

What if other countries follow suit?

How high could #copper go?

War is extremely bullish for #copper.

Take the NATO 155 mm artillery shell, for example.

According to the article, "Every shell contains 0.5 kg of copper, and Ukraine is firing up to 7,000 per day."

Wow.

"They can build a new mine in Ukraine with all that copper scrap.โ€
- Brandon Beylo
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The same companies virtue signaling about "carbon emission reduction" and "going green"

Are the same companies increasing Carbon Emissions by 50%+.

AI will require more carbon emissions than anyone thinks.

How will we get all that energy?

#energy https://t.co/EcsNN5FPKu
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RT @Cyclical_invest: Wait until you look at tungsten

War is extremely bullish for #copper.

Take the NATO 155 mm artillery shell, for example.

According to the article, "Every shell contains 0.5 kg of copper, and Ukraine is firing up to 7,000 per day."

Wow.

"They can build a new mine in Ukraine with all that copper scrap.โ€
- Brandon Beylo
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In order:

โ€ข Medvedev in 5 sets
โ€ข Tommy Paul in 5 sets
โ€ข Taylor Fritz in 4 sets
โ€ข Djokovic in 1.5 sets (De Minaur retires due to injury)

What do you guys think?

#Wimbledon

The final eight at #Wimbledon

Pick your semi-finalists! https://t.co/T6YHfhyh0P
- Tennis TV
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