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A walk through how to perform a discounted cash flow analysis of a company with the ultimate goal of trying to determine what the company’s intrinsic value is. Every investor should have a basic grasp of the discounted cash flow (DCF) technique. We go through the actual discounted cash flow formula and then we walk step by step how to perform the DCF calculation and where to get the information needed to calculate the intrinsic value of a company using DCF. In this example, we analyze Apple’s stock and perform a Discounted cash flow analysis on Apple to see if we can determine what the intrinsic value is.