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Aon plc, a professional services firm, provides advice and solutions to clients focused on risk, retirement, and health worldwide. It offers commercial risk solutions, including retail brokerage, specialty solutions, global risk consulting and captives management, and affinity programs; and health solutions, such as health and benefits brokerages, and health care exchanges. The company also provides treaty and facultative reinsurance, as well as insurance-linked securities, capital raising, strategic advice, restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions services; and corporate finance advisory services. In addition, it offers strategic design consulting services on their retirement programs, actuarial services, and risk management services; advice services on developing and maintaining investment programs across a range of plan types, including defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, endowments, and foundations for public and private companies, and other institutions; and advice and solutions that help clients in risk, health, and wealth through commercial risk, reinsurance, health, and wealth solutions. Aon plc was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
Discounted Cash Flow Valuation of Aon Plc
Growth
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g\r | +10% | +11% | +12% | +13% | +14% |
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0% | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
+1% | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
+2% | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 |
+3% | 14 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 |
+4% | 17 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
Years | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | TV |
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FCF | $3.183B | $3.513B | $3.855B | $4.209B | $4.569B | $4.934B | $5.298B | $5.657B | $6.007B | $6.343B | $6.66B | $66.6B |
DCF | $3.054B | $2.915B | $2.767B | $2.612B | $2.453B | $2.29B | $2.127B | $1.964B | $1.803B | $1.646B | $16.46B | |
Value | $40.1B |
In the chart Earnings are multiplied by this value.
High margins render the company resilient under dire circumstances, hence able to drive competitors out or acquire them. ROE and ROA measure the average flow generated by each invested dollar. Their marginal value is a forecast of future growth, and it is considered by Buffett and Munger the most important single indicator.
Years | 12-2015 | 12-2016 | 12-2017 | 12-2018 | 12-2019 | 12-2020 | 12-2021 | 12-2022 | 12-2023 | TTM |
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Net Margin | 12% | 12% | 12% | 11% | 14% | 18% | 10% | 21% | 19% | 19% |
ROA | 7.2% | 7.3% | 3.8% | 5.8% | 7.4% | 8.7% | 7.1% | 11% | 11% | 11% |
ROE | 22% | 25% | 26% | 27% | 44% | 55% | 110% | -600% | -350% | -350% |
The average Net Margin over the past 5 years is +15.41%.
The trend of Net Margin over the past 5 years is +1.61%.
The average ROA over the past 5 years is +8.56%.
The trend of ROA over the past 5 years is +1.04%.
The average ROE over the past 5 years is -119.07%.
The trend of ROE over the past 5 years is -107.21%.
Being debt the number one cause of investment losses and company death, the ratio Debt/FCF is of utmost importance to guarantee safety. On the other hand the Graham’s stability measures the drawdown of earnings, hence indicating the reliability of the flow generated by the company.
Years | 12-2015 | 12-2016 | 12-2017 | 12-2018 | 12-2019 | 12-2020 | 12-2021 | 12-2022 | 12-2023 | TTM |
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Debt FCF | 3.34 | 3.16 | 11.56 | 4.56 | 5.07 | 3.14 | 5.22 | 3.92 | 3.94 | 3.94 |
Debt Equity | 0.93 | 1.20 | 1.37 | 1.56 | 2.36 | 2.31 | 9.22 | -27.63 | -16.90 | -16.90 |
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Graham Stability | - | - | 88% | 85% | 100% | 100% | 81% | 100% | 100% | 81% |
The Debt/FCF trailing twelve month is 3.94.
The trend of Debt/FCF over the past 5 years is -0.13.
Graham’s Stability measure stands at 0.81.
Growth can be dangerous when forecasting, simply projecting the current growth is in general wrong. A company passes through multiple phases, from being young and unprofitable, to the first periods of profitability and high growth, until it arrives at a period of regime with limited growth. Identifying in which phase the company is in may help forecasting.
Years | 12-2016 | 12-2018 | 12-2020 | 12-2022 | Trend |
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Revenue | 2% | 4.4% | 6.5% | 7.2% | 1.5% |
Net Income | 9.1% | 18% | 9.2% | -0.97% | 5.1% |
Stockholders Equity | - | - | - | - | -5.6% |
FCF | 6.1% | 17% | 6.4% | 5.3% | 0.091% |
The Revenue CAGR over the past 5 years is +4.43%.
The trend of Revenue growth rate over the past 5 years is +1.51%.
The Earnings CAGR over the past 5 years is +17.72%.
The trend of Earnings growth rate over the past 5 years is +5.07%.
The Equity CAGR over the past 5 years is -.
The trend of Equity growth rate over the past 5 years is -5.57%.
The FCF CAGR over the past 5 years is +17.09%.
The trend of FCF growth rate over the past 5 years is +0.09%.