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W. P. Carey Inc.: 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
$1.3B
FY 2025
5-year average
$1.2B
FY 2021–2025
Net debt
$8.6B
FY 2025
Diluted shares
221.1M
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.

M

Weighted average, diluted, FY 2025.

USD

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Present value per share, with your assumptions

60.39 USD

Starting from 1.28B 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
10.24B
After year 10, discounted
11.68B
Minus net debt
-8.57B
For shareholders
13.35B
Divided by shares
221.1M

What the price implies

Enter a share price to see the growth it implies.

  • Your assumption, years 1–55.0%
  • Free cash flow, FY 2020–20259.9%
  • Free cash flow, FY 2022–20258.5%
  • Revenue, FY 2020–20257.3%
  • Revenue, FY 2022–20255.1%
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%85.6667.1653.3342.6034.04
1.5%92.7371.8856.6244.9835.81
2.0%101.2277.3960.3947.6537.77
2.5%111.5983.8964.7350.6939.96
3.0%124.5591.6969.7954.1542.43

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

Year by year
YearGrowthFree cash flowDiscount factorDiscounted
15.0%1.35B0.9171.24B
25.0%1.41B0.8421.19B
35.0%1.48B0.7721.15B
45.0%1.56B0.7081.10B
55.0%1.64B0.6501.06B
63.0%1.69B0.5961.01B
73.0%1.74B0.547949.8M
83.0%1.79B0.502897.5M
93.0%1.84B0.460848.1M
103.0%1.90B0.422801.4M
After 102.0%27.65B0.42211.68B

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: $547MFree cash flow 2016: $547M2016Operating cash flow 2017: $521MFree cash flow 2017: $521M2017Operating cash flow 2018: $509MFree cash flow 2018: $509M2018Operating cash flow 2019: $812MFree cash flow 2019: $812M2019Operating cash flow 2020: $802MFree cash flow 2020: $802M2020Operating cash flow 2021: $926MFree cash flow 2021: $926M2021Operating cash flow 2022: $1.0BFree cash flow 2022: $1.0B2022Operating cash flow 2023: $1.1BFree cash flow 2023: $1.1B2023Operating cash flow 2024: $1.8BFree cash flow 2024: $1.8B2024Operating cash flow 2025: $1.3BFree cash flow 2025: $1.3B2025
Operating cash flowFree cash flow
FYRevenueOp. cash flowCapexFree cash flow
2025$1.7B$1.3B—$1.3B
2024$1.6B$1.8B—$1.8B
2023$1.7B$1.1B—$1.1B
2022$1.5B$1.0B—$1.0B
2021$1.3B$926M—$926M
2020$1.2B$802M—$802M
2019$1.2B$812M—$812M
2018$886M$509M—$509M
2017$848M$521M—$521M
2016$942M$547M—$547M

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.