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American Homes 4 Rent: cash-flow calculator

A discounted cash flow model turns assumptions about future free cash flow into a single amount today. Here the assumptions are yours: the page shows what they add up to, and, the other way round, what yearly growth a share price takes for granted.

Free cash flow
$474M
FY 2020
5-year average
$402M
FY 2016–2020
Net debt
$2.7B
FY 2020
Diluted shares
307.1M
FY 2020

Your assumptions

money in USD
Starting free cash flow

Operating cash flow minus capital expenditure, from the annual reports.

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%

Growth usually slows as a company gets bigger.

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For ever, so it is usually kept at or below long-run growth of the economy, often 0–3%.

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The yearly return you require: a risk-free rate plus a premium for risk. Higher means later cash counts for less.

M USD

From the FY 2020 balance sheet. Negative means more cash than debt.

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Weighted average, diluted, FY 2020.

USD

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Present value per share, with your assumptions

17.66 USD

Starting from 474.1M USD of free cash flow, growing 5.0% a year for five years, 3.0% for the next five and 2.0% after that, all discounted at 9.0%.

Years 1–10, discounted
3.79B
After year 10, discounted
4.32B
Minus net debt
-2.68B
For shareholders
5.42B
Divided by shares
307.1M

What the price implies

Enter a share price to see the growth it implies.

  • Your assumption, years 1–55.0%
  • Free cash flow, FY 2017–20207.1%
  • Revenue, FY 2017–20207.2%
Past growth is the compound yearly change between the fiscal years shown, from the annual reports. The past does not set the future; the comparison only shows how the price's assumption sits against what the company has done.

Sensitivity: value per share

Rows: terminal growth. Columns: discount rate. Other assumptions as entered, values in USD.

g \ r7%8%9%10%11%
1.0%24.3919.4715.7812.9310.65
1.5%26.2720.7216.6613.5611.12
2.0%28.5322.1917.6614.2711.64
2.5%31.2923.9218.8215.0812.22
3.0%34.7526.0020.1716.0012.88

“—”: terminal growth at or above the discount rate has no finite answer.

Year by year
YearGrowthFree cash flowDiscount factorDiscounted
15.0%497.8M0.917456.7M
25.0%522.7M0.842439.9M
35.0%548.8M0.772423.8M
45.0%576.3M0.708408.2M
55.0%605.1M0.650393.3M
63.0%623.2M0.596371.6M
73.0%641.9M0.547351.2M
83.0%661.2M0.502331.8M
93.0%681.0M0.460313.6M
103.0%701.5M0.422296.3M
After 102.0%10.22B0.4224.32B

Terminal value = free cash flow in year 10 × (1 + terminal growth) ÷ (discount rate − terminal growth). Amounts in millions of USD.

Where the starting figures come from

Operating cash flow and free cash flow

Operating cash flow 2016: $279MFree cash flow 2016: $279M2016Operating cash flow 2017: $386MFree cash flow 2017: $386M2017Operating cash flow 2018: $411MFree cash flow 2018: $411M2018Operating cash flow 2019: $458MFree cash flow 2019: $458M2019Operating cash flow 2020: $474MFree cash flow 2020: $474M2020
Operating cash flowFree cash flow
FYRevenueOp. cash flowCapexFree cash flow
2020$1.2B$474M—$474M
2019$1.1B$458M—$458M
2018$1.1B$411M—$411M
2017$960M$386M—$386M
2016$879M$279M—$279M

Free cash flow = operating cash flow − capital expenditure. Source: SEC EDGAR, annual reports.

How it works: free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) grows at your stage 1 rate for years 1–5 and your stage 2 rate for years 6–10; after that, a terminal value assumes your terminal growth for ever. Each year is discounted at your rate, net debt (financial debt minus cash, latest balance sheet) is subtracted and the total is divided by diluted shares. The reverse calculation finds, by bisection, the stage 1 growth at which this equals the share price. Operating cash flow is after interest, so subtracting net debt as well is a simplification you can switch off.

The output is arithmetic on your inputs. It is not an EdgeScore estimate of what the shares are worth and not a price target. Figures: SEC EDGAR, annual reports, with the fiscal year shown next to each one.

For information and education only, not investment advice. Data may contain errors.