The Indian Hotels Company Limited DCF Valuation
INDHOTEL · Consumer Services · Current price ₹772.1
The Indian Hotels Company Limited cash-flow valuation
Our residual income (excess return on book) values The Indian Hotels Company Limited at ₹98 per share. implied value is <0.2× the price (likely a data error). 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 The Indian Hotels Company 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 ₹770 – ₹942
Why this method for this business
Relative P/E is appropriate for a diversified, asset-light hospitality franchise with a durable moat. Residual income complements this by capturing the value of book value growth and excess returns.
The models behind the number
Each method is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company.
implied value is <0.2× the price (likely a data error)
- dcf: Not suitable for a cyclical, capital-intensive business with uncertain cash flows and high leverage
What was missing
- Lack of forward EPS estimates for 2027
- Limited analyst coverage and dispersion data
What drives it
15 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- Sector-median P/E
- 41.46×
- Peers used
- 5
- EPS (TTM)
- 15.07 ₹/share
- Own-history median P/E
- 45.94×
peer-median
peer-median
computed
reconstructed (one feature, dampened — not a cap)
- Term: quality
- -6.8%
- Term: growth
- +13.8%
- Term: capital_allocation
- +13.6%
- Term: financial_strength
- +8.8%
- Term: history
- +3.2%
- Term: sector_rerating
- +0.0%
- Term: rate_regime
- +1.2%
- Term: risk
- +0.0%
quality 41/100 (weak/erratic returns) → discount
durable ~22% CAGR (ROCE 7% < 12% hurdle (growth not value-accretive)) → premium
capital allocation: rising ROCE funded by strong FCF → premium
financial strength: effectively debt-free → premium
history: market paid +11% 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
- +37.0%
- Fair-multiple confidence
- 77%
- Fair P/E
- 56.8×
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 The Indian Hotels Company 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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