Parag Milk Foods Limited DCF Valuation
PARAGMILK · Fast Moving Consumer Goods · Current price ₹283.5
Parag Milk Foods Limited cash-flow valuation
Our engine did not use a discounted-cash-flow model for Parag Milk 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 ₹293.
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How we got this fair value
Every number below is part of the same estimate for Parag Milk Foods Limited. Nothing here is a target price or a forecast of where the share price will go.
The models agree and the inputs are well covered. Treat this as our firmest estimate.
Estimate range ₹264 – ₹323
Why this method for this business
Relative P/E and PEG are appropriate for an asset-light FMCG business with durable earnings power and a narrow moat. DCF is less relevant due to the complexity of cash flow forecasting in a fragmented sector.
The models behind the number
Each method is weighted by how well its inputs held up for this company.
- dcf: Inappropriate for a fragmented FMCG sector with erratic cash flow patterns and high capital intensity
What was missing
- Lack of detailed information on brand equity and customer loyalty metrics
- Limited data on long-term pricing power sustainability
What drives it
17 inputs, grouped by how strong each claim is
- Sector-median P/E
- 25.55×
- Peers used
- 7
- EPS (TTM)
- 10.35 ₹/share
- Own-history median P/E
- 16.35×
- Earnings growth
- 36.6% CAGR
peer-median
peer-median
computed
reconstructed (one feature, dampened — not a cap)
computed
- Term: quality
- -8.2%
- Term: growth
- +40.0%
- Term: capital_allocation
- -9.5%
- Term: financial_strength
- +3.9%
- Term: history
- -10.8%
- Term: sector_rerating
- +0.0%
- Term: rate_regime
- +1.2%
- Term: risk
- +0.0%
quality 39/100 (weak/erratic returns) → discount
durable ~30% CAGR (ROCE 14% > hurdle) → premium
capital allocation: falling ROCE / weak cash generation → discount
financial strength: low leverage (D/E 0.4) → mild premium
history: market paid -36% 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
- +9.1%
- Fair-multiple confidence
- 72%
- Fair P/E
- 27.87×
- Growth-implied P/E
- 30×
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 Parag Milk 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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