Also called profile, lifecycle stage
Classification
The company's sector, which sets the growth ceiling and terminal method, combined with its lifecycle stage read from its own cash-flow history. Re-derived every run, and you can override it.
A fuller explanation of this one is still being written. The definition above is the short answer.
See also
- Growth rate — Year-one growth, faded toward the perpetual rate across the horizon. Left blank it comes from the company's own history, capped at the sector ceiling, and a genuine decline is kept rather than floored up.
- Target FCF margin — For a company not yet generating cash, the steady-state margin it is assumed to reach. The most fragile assumption in the model, because nothing in the history supports it.
- Terminal method — How value beyond the horizon is set: Gordon growth, which assumes cash flow grows forever at a fixed rate, or a multiple applied to the final year.
- Valuation confidence — How far the model will stand behind its own answer. Low means free cash flow has been volatile, the price sits far above what the business generates, or a margin had to be guessed. It is not the strategy signal score.
Educational content, not investment advice. Angie explains how a valuation is built so you can judge it yourself. What you do with that is your call.
