ADF Foods Limited DCF Valuation
ADFFOODS · Fast Moving Consumer Goods · Current price ₹269.75
ADF Foods Limited cash-flow valuation
Our engine did not use a discounted-cash-flow model for ADF Foods Limited. It routes each business to the methods that suit it, and a DCF is a poor lens where cash-flow forecasts are fragile or the business is capital-structure driven. The methods it did use, and why, are set out below. Our published estimate is ₹342.
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How we got this fair value
Every number below is part of the same estimate for ADF Foods Limited. Nothing here is a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
Workable, with real gaps. Weigh it alongside your own view rather than on its own.
Estimate range ₹205 – ₹400
Why this method for this business
ADF Foods is an asset-light, branded consumer franchise with durable moat and scalable earnings power. Relative P/E and PEG are the most appropriate models for valuing such businesses, as they reflect earnings power and growth-adjusted multiples.
The models behind the number
Each method is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company.
- dcf: Not suitable for an asset-light brand with stable cash flows and no capital-intensive operations
- peg: Used as a complementary model to assess growth-adjusted valuations
What was missing
- Lack of forward-looking analyst estimates for more precise growth assumptions
- Limited data on brand equity and moat durability
What drives it
18 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- Sector-median P/E
- 18.85×
- Peers used
- 7
- EPS (TTM)
- 8.37 ₹/share
- Own-history median P/E
- 39.81×
- Earnings growth
- 17.1% CAGR
peer-median
peer-median
computed
reconstructed (one feature, dampened — not a cap)
computed
- Anchor correction
- peer anchor 18.8x diverges 2.1x from 7yr own-history 39.8x (no size-comparable peer) — anchor blended 0.6 toward own-history → 31.4x
- Term: quality
- +5.0%
- Term: growth
- +19.0%
- Term: capital_allocation
- +1.8%
- Term: financial_strength
- +9.4%
- Term: history
- +8.0%
- Term: sector_rerating
- +0.0%
- Term: rate_regime
- +1.2%
- Term: risk
- +0.0%
peer-anchor mismatch — deep own-history used instead
quality 65/100 (high, stable returns) → premium
durable ~13% CAGR (ROCE 19% > hurdle) → premium
capital allocation: steady → neutral
financial strength: effectively debt-free → premium
history: market paid +27% vs sector, dampened ×0.3 (one feature, not the anchor)
sector re-rating: no sector-norm history → not used
rates: risk-free 6.9% below ~7.1% normal → higher multiple
risk: no analyst-dispersion signal available → neutral (lowers confidence, not PE)
- Premium vs sector
- +52.0%
- Fair-multiple confidence
- 85%
- Fair P/E
- 47.78×
- Growth-implied P/E
- 17.1×
fundamentals + macro (not capped at own history)
data completeness + term agreement
sector median × ∏(1+term) — Dynamic Fair Multiple
min(growth, 30)
Who computed this
A language model (qwen3:8b) selects the valuation method and the judgement inputs for ADF Foods Limited: which models suit the business, the moat, the growth and margin assumptions. It does not produce the number. The fair value itself is computed in Python by a deterministic engine (version 2026.08.1) from those inputs, so the same inputs always give the same result and every figure above can be traced to a source.
Estimated 15 Sept 2026. Re-run as new financials and news arrive.
How we value stocks
We estimate what a business is worth from its own economics: cash flows, returns on capital, and a multiple justified by its quality, rather than from where the share price has been. A fair value estimate is a view, not a verdict, and it is only as good as the inputs listed above.
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