Co-developed with Tim Koller, lead author of Valuation

Institutional-grade valuation analysis on any public company.
In minutes.

A rigorous, outside-in view of a company versus its peers: growth, margins, returns on capital, valuation gaps. Built on real financial modeling, not AI summarization.

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Peers Yum! BrandsRestaurant BrandsDomino'sWendy's Edit

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3-yr TSR

-1%

3rd of 5

3-yr growth

3rd of 5

EBITA margin

46%

1st of 5

ROIC

21%

2.5× WACC

McDonald's vs. Yum, Restaurant Brands, Domino's, Wendy'sAnalysis ready · see what it shows below ↓

What ValueLens shows you

Think of it as how a sophisticated investor would tear down the company: filings pulled, financials cleaned, valuation models run, presented as a guided narrative, against the peers that actually matter.

01: Performance

How is this company really performing versus its peers?

Growth, margins, returns on capital and valuation, standardized across the company and its peer set: the metrics investors judge on, not the ones management picks.

Every view comes with written interpretation, so a board member follows the same story a CFO does.

Best margin in the set. Mid-pack on everything the market pays for.

3-yr TSR

-1%

QSRYUMMCDDPZWEN

3rd of 5

3-yr growth

QSRYUMMCDDPZWEN

3rd of 5

EBITA margin

46%

MCDYUMQSRWENDPZ

1st of 5

ROIC

21%

DPZYUMQSRMCDWEN

2.5× WACC

The operating business has delivered; the multiple hasn't rewarded it. At 16.8x forward EBITA the price sits near the peer median despite the set's highest margin, because the market already assumes the margin holds. What it's paying for is growth. McDonald's vs. Yum, Restaurant Brands, Domino's, Wendy's · FY2022–FY2025, standardized · TSR and growth annualized

Deep divesTSR decomposition Revenue trajectory Margin trend ROIC decomposition

02: Expectations

What is the market pricing in, and is that deliverable?

Every share price is a set of assumptions. ValueLens works backwards from the price: what do you have to believe about future growth, margins and returns on capital to justify today's valuation?

Those implied expectations are held up against consensus and the company's own track record, revealing when a stock is priced for a performance the business has never achieved, or when the market is underwriting less than management already delivers. It turns "our multiple is too low" into a conversation about which expectations the market doubts.

Long-term growth

priced in

delivered, last 2 yrs

Terminal EBITA margin

47%

priced in

46%

FY2025

Growth has slowed: 5% a year over three years, 3% over the last two. At today's valuation the market assumes it gets back to 5% and stays there, with the margin holding near its peak. The margin is already earned; the growth is the promise. Each point of growth is worth about three times a point of margin, roughly $26 a share against $8.

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03: Vulnerability

Where would an activist attack?

The same engine, run the way an activist runs it: find the value gap, find the wedge across operations, capital allocation and governance, and write the brief.

The output is, in effect, the brief an activist could publish on the company, before anyone else writes it.

Some Exposure

U.S. execution gaps and a wide value-delivery wedge

01ScreeningMonitor

02DiagnosisSome exposure

OperationsWatch

Shareholder return

Growth

Margins

Returns on capital

Earnings delivery

Management credibility

Capital allocationWatch

Governance & incentivesDefended

03Value potentialSizeable

Fully interactive

Swap a peer in or out and the entire analysis rebuilds. Change an assumption and see what it's worth per share.

Always on, always current

Not a one-off report. The analysis stays live as filings, consensus and prices move, on your own company, or any company of interest.

Readable by the whole team

Written interpretation accompanies every view, so a non-finance reader follows the same story a CFO does.

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Yum! BrandsYUM×

Restaurant Brands InternationalQSR×

Domino's PizzaDPZ×

Wendy'sWEN×

Chipotle Mexican Grill NEWCMG×

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Every number starts from the company's own filings, verified line by line by our analysts.

Why the numbers hold up

Any AI produces a plausible company analysis on demand. ValueLens is built so the numbers behind the analysis hold up in a boardroom.

The model is real

The valuation engine is a full financial model, codified with Tim Koller. It is deterministic: same inputs, same valuation, every run. No AI touches the calculations.

The inputs are verified

Financials are extracted from filings at line-item depth, then verified and approved by human analysts. Every figure traces back to its source.

The expertise is built in

The interpretation layer carries decades of valuation experience: what drives value, which peers are truly comparable, what the numbers imply, read back as narrative, not data.

Every ValueLens module traces back to the value-driver framework from Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies.

01ValueThe present value of future free cash flows. is free cash flowCash generated by the business, available to all capital providers., discounted at the cost of capitalThe return capital providers require, given the risk of the business..

02Free cash flowCash generated by the business, available to all capital providers. is produced by return on invested capitalProfit generated for every dollar of capital invested. and revenue growthHow quickly the business is growing, organically..

03Return on invested capitalProfit generated for every dollar of capital invested. is driven by operating marginHow effectively revenue turns into operating profit. and capital turnoverRevenue generated for every dollar of capital invested..

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Who it's for

CFO & IR teams

Earnings-cycle preparation, peer benchmarking, activist vulnerability, corporate development: the outside-in view of your company, always on.

"This is the type of analysis I typically call my bankers for. It's incredible to now have this available at my fingertips whenever I need it."

CFO, US large-cap company

Executives & boards

Strategy is debated in operational terms and judged by the market in investor terms. One fact base for capital allocation, targets and the equity story.

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Lead Independent Director, US mid-cap company

Advisors & bankers

Fast, defensible outside-in views on any company, so senior time goes to judgment instead of data assembly.

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Investors

Screening, diligence and portfolio monitoring, using the same verified numbers and peer logic, applied to the companies you're evaluating.

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Institutional-grade valuation analysis on any public company.
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What ValueLens shows you

How is this company really performing versus its peers?