Ardmore Shipping Corporation

ASC ·Industrials, Marine Shipping
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AI Valuation

AI-generated fair value estimate for this company.

AI Fair Value $13.30
Market Price $18.83
Overvalued By 41.6%

Method: 10-year unlevered FCF DCF: $45M normalized FCF base (operating cash flow less normalized maintenance/drydock capex, excluding elevated newbuild fleet-renewal capex); 3% growth yrs1-5, 2% yrs6-10; 11% discount rate (shipping-cycle risk); 2% terminal growth; plus $13.2M net cash; 40.85M shares outstanding.

Reasoning: Product tanker rates are highly cyclical; using through-cycle normalized FCF rather than a single elevated-capex, depressed-FCF year (or a single peak-rate year) better captures Ardmore's mid-cycle earnings power, aided by its low-leverage balance sheet.