Discounting Cash Flows Developer’s Guide

This is the official guide for anyone interested in creating or editing valuation models inside the website’s (discountingcashflows.com) Model Code Editor.

Note

Please note that the website is under active development. If you find any outdated content or have any questions, please let us know here

Discounting Cash Flows (discountingcashflows.com) is dedicated to fundamental stock analysis and valuation. We try to automate the process of retrieving data from financial sources(sec.gov, Yahoo Finance, etc.) and importing the data into a financial valuation model, allowing investors to focus more on studying fundamental aspects of companies.

Our data is provided by financialmodelingprep.com and we use fully transparent and editable models written in the JavaScript programming language to process the data and output the intrinsic value of a company. The valuation models are evaluated by the client’s own browser(Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.)

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Advantages

The valuation models are interactive

The user can change the model’s assumptions with his own future estimations for the company. Changing values makes the model recalculate itself automatically.

The valuation models are shareable

Once the user is done changing the model’s assumptions, they can just copy the URL and give it to anyone.

The valuation models are editable

The user can customize the models as they wish using our built-in JavaScript code editor.

The user can set watches and price alerts

We will let the user know by email when his model reaches a value threshold.

Warning

Please note that our website does not try to bypass the Due Diligence required before commiting to purchase a company and does not offer financial advice. We recommed users to get informed about the company and its business model and try to come up with their own projections for each company.

Model Code Editor

We will go through every function available to the editor. You can also find the source code and description for all our valuation models and how they are calculated here

Contents

• Using the Code Editor
  • Example Code for a Model
  • Running & Saving the Code
• Valuation Framework
  • $.when().done() - Function
  • Response() - Class
    • Example Usage
    • Response() - Class Constructor
    • Response.toOneCurrency() - Class Function
    • Response.merge() - Class Function
  • DateValueData() - Class
    • Example Usage
    • Defining Original Data
    • Writing and Processing Formulas
    • DateValueData.setFormula() - Class Function
    • Constants
    • Copying Other Keys
    • Operations
    • ‘function:discount’ and ‘function:compound’ - Formula Functions
    • ‘function:growth_rate’ - Formula Function
    • ‘function:linear_regression’ - Formula Function
    • DateValueData.compute() - Class Function
    • DateValueData.setEditable() - Class Function
    • DateValueData.removeDate() - Class Function
  • DateValueList() - Class
    • DateValueList() - Class Constructor
    • DateValueList.average() - Class Function
    • DateValueList.sum() - Class Function
    • DateValueList.sublist() - Class Function
    • DateValueList.valueAtDate() - Class Functions
    • DateValueList.lastValue() - Class Functions
  • Displaying Messages
    • print() function:
    • throwWarning() and warning() functions:
    • throwError() and error() functions:
    • Description() function:
  • Setting an Estimated Value
    • _SetEstimatedValue() function:
    • _StopIfWatch() function:
  • Setting assumptions
    • Input() function:
    • setAssumption() and getAssumption():
  • Displaying a Chart - DateValueData.renderChart()
    • Example Usage
  • Displaying a Table - DateValueData.renderTable()
    • Example Usage
  • Dates functions
    • getYear() function:
  • Utility functions
    • fxRate() function:
    • newArrayFill() function:
    • arrayValuesToRates() function:
    • getArraySum() function:
    • getGrowthRateList() function:
    • addKey() function:
    • linearRegressionGrowthRate() function:
    • averageMargin() function:
    • averageGrowthRate() function:
    • applyMarginToList() function:
    • getGrowthList() function:
    • toM() function:
    • toK() function:
    • toR() and toN() functions:
    • deepCopy() function:
    • fillHistoricUsingReport() function:
    • fillHistoricUsingList() function:
    • forecast() function:
    • reportKeyToList() function:
• API Functions & Endpoints