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DCF (discounted cash flow)

A way to value a company by estimating the cash it will generate in the coming years and converting each of those amounts into what it is worth today with a discount rate. The result is only as good as its assumptions.

In pesos: If a business will hand you $110 MXN a year from now and you could earn 10% elsewhere, that $110 is worth $100 today. A DCF does that same calculation year after year.

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