Find out why YETI Holdings's 0.3% return over the last year is lagging behind its peers.
A Discounted Cash Flow model estimates what a business is worth today by projecting the cash it can generate in the future and discounting those cash flows back to the present.
For YETI Holdings, the latest twelve month Free Cash Flow stands at about $214 million. Analysts and model estimates see this rising steadily, with projected Free Cash Flow reaching roughly $411 million by 2035, based on a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity approach that blends explicit forecasts with longer term growth assumptions generated by Simply Wall St.
Bringing all those future cash flows back to today produces an estimated intrinsic value of about $94.43 per share. Compared to the current share price, this implies roughly a 54.1% discount. This indicates the market is still pricing YETI as if its cash generation will be meaningfully weaker than the model assumes.
Result: UNDERVALUED
Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests YETI Holdings is undervalued by 54.1%. Track this in your watchlist or portfolio, or discover 908 more undervalued stocks based on cash flows.
The Price to Earnings ratio is a useful way to value a profitable company like YETI because it ties the share price directly to the earnings that shareholders ultimately rely on. In general, faster-growing and lower-risk businesses can justify paying a higher PE multiple, while slower, more cyclical, or riskier companies tend to trade on lower multiples over time.
YETI currently trades on a PE of about 21.0x. That sits slightly below the Leisure industry average of around 21.6x, and meaningfully below a broader peer group that averages roughly 29.6x, suggesting the market is not awarding YETI a premium multiple despite its brand strength and growth profile. Simply Wall St’s proprietary Fair Ratio for YETI is 15.8x, which estimates what a normal PE should be given its earnings growth outlook, margins, industry, market cap, and risk characteristics.
This Fair Ratio is more tailored than a simple peer or industry comparison because it adjusts for YETI’s specific fundamentals rather than assuming all Leisure names deserve the same multiple. With the shares trading at 21.0x versus a Fair Ratio of 15.8x, the stock screens as meaningfully more expensive than its fundamentals would justify.
Result: OVERVALUED
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Earlier we mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation. Let us introduce you to Narratives, a simple framework on Simply Wall St’s Community page that lets you attach a story to your numbers. It links your view of a company’s future revenue, earnings, and margins to a concrete forecast, a calculated Fair Value, and a clear buy or sell signal as that Fair Value is compared with today’s Price. This is then automatically updated when new information, like earnings or major news, comes in. One investor might build a bullish YETI Holdings Narrative around rapid international expansion, successful product innovation, and premium pricing that supports a Fair Value near the top end of recent analyst targets around $53 per share. Another more cautious investor could construct a conservative Narrative that assumes slower drinkware growth, tougher competition, and higher execution risk, leading them to a Fair Value closer to the lower end, around $32 per share. Both views can live side by side on the platform so you can see which story, and which price, you actually believe.
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