Find out why CNH Industrial's -16.8% return over the last year is lagging behind its peers.
A Discounted Cash Flow, or DCF, model estimates what a business is worth by projecting its future cash flows and then discounting them back to today’s value. For CNH Industrial, this approach uses a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity framework built on cash flow projections and a longer term extrapolation.
CNH Industrial generated trailing twelve month free cash flow of about $2.3 billion, and analysts expect this to step down in the near term before rebuilding, with projected free cash flow of roughly $2.1 billion by 2029. Beyond the explicit analyst horizon, Simply Wall St extrapolates these figures out to 2035, assuming more moderate growth as the business matures.
Pulling all of those projected cash flows back into today’s dollars produces an estimated intrinsic value of about $16.40 per share. Compared with the current market price, that indicates the stock is trading at roughly a 40.1% discount, which implies investors are paying materially less than what the cash flows indicate the business is worth.
Result: UNDERVALUED
Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests CNH Industrial is undervalued by 40.1%. Track this in your watchlist or portfolio, or discover 909 more undervalued stocks based on cash flows.
For companies that are consistently profitable, the price to earnings ratio is often the go to yardstick because it links what investors pay directly to the earnings the business is generating today. What counts as a normal or fair PE depends on how quickly profits are expected to grow and how risky or cyclical those earnings are, with higher growth and lower risk usually justifying a higher multiple.
CNH Industrial currently trades on a PE of about 20.5x, which is slightly above the peer average of roughly 19.5x, but below the broader Machinery industry average of around 25.7x. Simply Wall St also calculates a Fair Ratio of 36.5x for CNH Industrial, a proprietary estimate of the PE you would expect given its earnings growth outlook, margins, industry, market cap and risk profile. This Fair Ratio goes a step beyond simple peer or sector comparisons because it adjusts for the company’s own fundamentals rather than assuming that all Machinery stocks deserve the same multiple. On that basis, CNH Industrial’s current PE looks materially lower than its 36.5x Fair Ratio, which suggests the shares may be undervalued from an earnings multiple perspective.
Result: UNDERVALUED
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Earlier we mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation, so let us introduce you to Narratives, a simple way to connect your view of CNH Industrial’s business to a concrete forecast and a fair value that you can compare with today’s price.
A Narrative on Simply Wall St is your story behind the numbers, where you spell out how you think CNH Industrial’s revenue, margins and earnings will evolve, and the platform turns that perspective into a financial forecast and an implied fair value.
These Narratives live on the Community page used by millions of investors. They are dynamic, automatically refreshing when new information like earnings updates, tariff news or product announcements changes the outlook.
That makes them a practical decision-making tool, because you can quickly see whether your Narrative fair value still sits above the current share price, or has dropped below it.
For example, one CNH Industrial Narrative might lean toward the upper end of analyst expectations with stronger revenue growth and a fair value closer to 21 dollars. A more conservative Narrative might assume slower adoption of new technologies, more persistent tariff pressure and a fair value nearer 11.5 dollars. By comparing where the actual price sits between those two viewpoints you can decide which story you believe and act accordingly.
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