This price needs ~-8%/yr of free-cash-flow growth.

Every fair-value number — ours included — starts from a guess about the future. This one runs the other direction: it takes today's price as fixed and works out what free-cash-flow growth rate would have to be true for that price to make sense. We're not forecasting it. We're reading it off the price that's already there.

Current price
$69.16
as of 2026-10-17
Priced for
~-8%/yr
free-cash-flow growth
Delivered, last 3 years
-6.3%/yr
free-cash-flow growth, filed

The company has already grown free cash flow faster than this — -6.3%/yr over the last three years against the ~-8%/yr priced in. The price isn't asking for more than the company has already delivered.

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How this is computed. Two-stage DCF, solved backwards: 9% discount rate, 2.5% terminal growth, holding fair value equal to today's price and solving for the stage-1 free-cash-flow growth rate that makes the arithmetic balance. Price of $69.16 taken 2026-10-17 (Google Finance, manual entry, 2026-10-17) — not live, does not move during the day.

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