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NORDSON CORP: 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
$661M
FY 2025
5-year average
$546M
FY 2021–2025
Net debt
$1.9B
FY 2025
Diluted shares
56.9M
FY 2025

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 2025 balance sheet. Negative means more cash than debt.

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Weighted average, diluted, FY 2025.

USD

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Present value per share, with your assumptions

165.38 USD

Starting from 661.1M 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
5.28B
After year 10, discounted
6.02B
Minus net debt
-1.89B
For shareholders
9.41B
Divided by shares
56.9M

What the price implies

Enter a share price to see the growth it implies.

  • Your assumption, years 1–55.0%
  • Free cash flow, FY 2020–20257.9%
  • Free cash flow, FY 2022–202512.7%
  • Revenue, FY 2020–20255.6%
  • Revenue, FY 2022–20252.5%
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%216.01178.96151.25129.76112.62
1.5%230.17188.41157.85134.53116.16
2.0%247.17199.43165.38139.88120.08
2.5%267.94212.46174.08145.96124.48
3.0%293.91228.09184.22152.90129.42

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

Year by year
YearGrowthFree cash flowDiscount factorDiscounted
15.0%694.2M0.917636.9M
25.0%728.9M0.842613.5M
35.0%765.3M0.772591.0M
45.0%803.6M0.708569.3M
55.0%843.8M0.650548.4M
63.0%869.1M0.596518.2M
73.0%895.2M0.547489.7M
83.0%922.0M0.502462.7M
93.0%949.7M0.460437.3M
103.0%978.2M0.422413.2M
After 102.0%14.25B0.4226.02B

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: $335MFree cash flow 2016: $274M2016Operating cash flow 2017: $357MFree cash flow 2017: $285M2017Operating cash flow 2018: $505MFree cash flow 2018: $415M2018Operating cash flow 2019: $383MFree cash flow 2019: $319M2019Operating cash flow 2020: $502MFree cash flow 2020: $452M2020Operating cash flow 2021: $546MFree cash flow 2021: $508M2021Operating cash flow 2022: $513MFree cash flow 2022: $462M2022Operating cash flow 2023: $641MFree cash flow 2023: $607M2023Operating cash flow 2024: $556MFree cash flow 2024: $492M2024Operating cash flow 2025: $719MFree cash flow 2025: $661M2025
Operating cash flowFree cash flow
FYRevenueOp. cash flowCapexFree cash flow
2025$2.8B$719M$58.1M$661M
2024$2.7B$556M$64.4M$492M
2023$2.6B$641M$34.6M$607M
2022$2.6B$513M$51.4M$462M
2021$2.4B$546M$38.3M$508M
2020$2.1B$502M$50.5M$452M
2019$2.2B$383M$64.2M$319M
2018$2.3B$505M$89.8M$415M
2017$2.1B$357M$71.6M$285M
2016$1.8B$335M$60.9M$274M

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.