Dilip Buildcon Limited DCF Valuation
DBL · Construction · Current price ₹396.9
Dilip Buildcon Limited cash-flow valuation
Our discounted cash flow (2-stage) values Dilip Buildcon Limited at ₹766 per share. Intrinsic value from 2-stage discounted cash flows (primary for asset-light / normal businesses); FCFE path. It carries 60% of the weight in our published estimate of ₹872. A discounted cash flow is only as good as the cash-flow path it assumes, so the assumptions behind it are listed in full below.
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How we got this fair value
Every number below is part of the same estimate for Dilip Buildcon Limited. Nothing here is a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
The inputs are thin or the models disagree sharply. This is our least reliable kind of estimate, so read the range rather than the single number.
Estimate range ₹766 – ₹959
Why this method for this business
The DCF model is appropriate for a capital-intensive construction company with a cyclical revenue stream, while EV/EBITDA and relative PE provide market-based benchmarks for valuation.
The models behind the number
Each method is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company.
Intrinsic value from 2-stage discounted cash flows (primary for asset-light / normal businesses); FCFE path
required inputs missing
- Discounted cash flow (2-stage) is the primary model, but the deterministic baseline already uses it. Other models like P/B or P/S are not suitable for a construction company with high leverage and cyclical earnings.
What was missing
- Lack of analyst coverage for precise forward EPS estimates
- Limited historical data on EBITDA margins and ROE normalization
What drives it
27 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- FCF_0 (normalized)
- 1,094 ₹cr
- Net debt
- 8,041 ₹cr
- Sector-median P/E
- 21.11×
- Peers used
- 32
- EPS (TTM)
- 73.03 ₹/share
- Own-history median P/E
- 10.86×
fcf_norm (median ≤5y positive)
gross debt (cash n/a)
peer-median
peer-median
computed
reconstructed (one feature, dampened — not a cap)
- Discount rate (r)
- 14.4%
- Beta
- 1
COE (building-block)
bottom-up industry
- Stage-1 start growth
- 6%
- Fade shape
- gentle
- Terminal growth (g)
- 4.91%
- Stage-1 years
- 5 y
pat_cagr_5y
lifecycle Declining
macro terminal × quality premium
lifecycle Declining horizon
- Lifecycle stage
- Declining
- Quality premium
- 0.982×
- Term: quality
- -8.6%
- Term: growth
- +15.5%
- Term: capital_allocation
- -7.1%
- Term: financial_strength
- +5.7%
- Term: history
- -14.6%
- Term: sector_rerating
- +0.0%
- Term: rate_regime
- +1.2%
- Term: risk
- +0.0%
forecast engine (L20)
moat None + capital allocation
quality 38/100 (weak/erratic returns) → discount
durable ~12% CAGR (ROCE 14% > hurdle) → premium
capital allocation: falling ROCE / weak cash generation → discount
financial strength: low leverage (D/E 0.3) → mild premium
history: market paid -49% 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)
- Path
- FCFE
- Terminal-value fraction
- 0.65
- Premium vs sector
- -10.4%
- Fair-multiple confidence
- 72%
- Fair P/E
- 18.91×
computed (D/E vs 0.8)
PV_TV / (PV_1+PV_TV)
fundamentals + macro (not capped at own history)
data completeness + term agreement
sector median × ∏(1+term) — Dynamic Fair Multiple
Who computed this
A language model (qwen3:8b) selects the valuation method and the judgement inputs for Dilip Buildcon 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 14 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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