Intrinsic Value
What a company is actually worth based on its fundamentals, independent of its current market price.
What it is
Intrinsic value is an estimate of a business's true worth derived from the cash it can generate, its assets, and its risk — not from what the stock happens to trade at today. It is the anchor of value investing: buy when price is below intrinsic value, avoid when it is above. Because it depends on assumptions, it is a reasoned estimate, not a precise fact.
Why it matters
Comparing intrinsic value to market price is how investors judge whether a stock is cheap or expensive on its own merits. The gap between the two also defines the margin of safety that protects against being wrong.
How it's calculated
There is no single formula. Common approaches are a discounted cash flow (the most rigorous), a dividend discount model for steady dividend payers, or applying a justified multiple such as EV/EBIT to current earnings. Each method makes different assumptions, so cross-checking several is good practice.
How Quintarthai uses it
Quinn the AI analyst summarizes the valuation picture — fundamentals, bull and bear cases, and provenance receipts — on each company's deep-analysis page so you can form an intrinsic-value view.