RE: “ I will post the SP areas (based on prior highs) that IMO have the potential to unseat the SP/ - ohas to overcome to continue this progress, either later on, or ....9 Jan 2026 21:30
Thanks for the effort that went into that :)
Plainly 700p is bonkers territory. In fact, DCF valuation is bonkers. Does anybody use it outside of merchant banks to increase their fees or business school profs? It is useless IMHO. It works by inventing or predicting a growth rate for say the next 5 years. As if that is not bad enough all of those cash flows need to be discounted back to NPV by applying a discount rate: the cost of capital, measured by the cost of equity and the cost of debt. The latter is easy to work out. The former is obtained by dint of the CAPM. This capital asset pricing model works great in theory but is "probably invalid" in practice. That is not me saying that, it is Profs Fama and French : " , the CAPM’s empirical problems probably invalidate its use in applications " In other words great in theory not so great in practice. According to Stern Business School, it is right only 7% of the time; less than 1 in 10. Crap in other words.
I`ll stick to using pricing - a multiple. Much cleaner.