discounted cash flow

noun

1. DCF. accounting a technique for appraising an investment that takes into account the different values of future returns according to when they will be received

Example Sentences

Robilliard, for his part, uses a discounted cash flow model to generate his target.

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If you were feeling very proper and traditional, you might break out what’s called a discounted cash flow model, which calculates how much a company’s future profits are worth to investors today.

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His answer is a discussion of Greenblatt’s various techniques, such as an analytical exercise called a discounted cash flow analysis — which can sound like science.

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The “discounted cash flow” model does not mean that municipalities will get less tax revenue.

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“If weather conditions continue to have a more unforeseeable impact on agro business the best way to model this would be ... to increase the beta-factor within the discounted cash flow model used by me. And no, I have not yet done so,” said Ulrich Huwald, an analyst who covers Bayer.

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