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Introduction
In this assignment, our primarily goal was to build a financial model for Panera Bread Company
(NASDAQ: PNRA), which could fairly value the company for year 2013. Panera Bread was founded in
1998 originally and it has grown into a company that operates in the retail bakery-café segment, which is
the restaurant industry that belongs to the services sector. For the financial model, we mainly used the
Benninga’s worksheets. We analyzed Panera Bread’s financial statements (Balance Sheets, Income
Statements, and Cash Flow Statement) for the period of 2009-2013. Then, we created a pro forma for the
next five years (2014-2018) to calculate the free cash flows. From there, we determined the WACC of the
company for year 2013 and made the final valuation based on the WACC. According to our calculation,
Panera Bread had a WACC of 7.65% in 2013. Therefore the stock price should be $184.23 per share.
Incorporation of Multi-years financials
Before we could analysis the company, we had to incorporate the last five years data into
Benninga’s model from its most recent 10-K report. In order to better analysis the company, we added
line items in Benninga’s model since Panera Bread’s financial statements reported differently. Here is a
list how we broke down certain lines in both its financial statements specifically:
Balance sheets:
Receivables = trade accounts receivable, net + other accounts receivable
Other current assets=prepaid expense and other + deferred income taxes
Other assets = goodwill + deposits and other
Other liabilities = deferred rent + other long-term liabilities
Income statements:
Sales = bakery-café sales,net + franchise royalties and fees + fresh dough and other product sales
to franchise
Cost of goods sold= cost of food and paper products + labor + occupancy +other operating
expenses
We also added other line items that were necessary for the model, such as accumulated other
comprehensive (loss) income, fresh dough and other product cost of sales to franchisees, and pre-opening
expense. From there, we incorporated all the data into justified Benninga’s model according to its 2013
10-K report. Once we finished entering all the data, we checked the EBITDA, EBIT and EBT to find out
any errors we made. In Benninga’s model, they were operating income before depreciation for EBITDA
and pretax income for EBT. There wasn’t a line for EBIT. We knew we accomplished the incorporation
process once the EBITDA and EBT matched with its 10-k’s numbers.
Analysis ofhistorical financials
After finished the company’ financial statement formation, we began to figure out the parameters
that were needed for the 5 year Pro froma. According to Benninga’s model, the future anticipated ratios
were determined by their historical ratios. Hence for our first step was to find historical ratios. Most of
required model parameters were calculated as a percentage of sales from the same fiscal year. The others,
which were not calculated as a percentage of sales, were measured by their related line items. For
example, tax expense were measured by the tax/EBT ratio. From there, we took the average value of these
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five years’ ratios. For example: accounts payable/sales parameter = the sum of accounts payable/sales in
five year and divided by 5. Sales growth rates were calculated by each segment and the total revenue was
the sum of all segments together. In addition, there were some parameters we didn’t use because there
were no information for the related line items. For example, the company does not payout dividends
according to its dividend payout police indicated on the 10-K report. We also created few new parameters
in order to complete the forecast model. For accumulated other comprehensive (loss) income, we took a
ratio over the total asset since it was an item related to foreign transaction cost of the total asset and total
liabilities. There was one parameter that we needed to change completely, which was the interest
expense/debt. According to the company 10-K reports, Panera Bread did not have any long-term debt
between 2009 and 2013. However, it did have interest expense. Therefore, we decided to change the
parameter to interest expense/other liabilities and took the average of those ratios in the past of five years.
Another important information we found out was the company just issued a $100 million dollar debt on
June 11th
2014, which would be mature in 2019 according to its 2014 second quarter 10-Q report (Exhibit
5). In its 10-Q report, it indicates that the interest rate will between 1.00% and 1.50% plus the US 3
month LIBOR rate. Therefore, we decided to 1.25% plus the 3 month LIBOR rate, which was 0.23%
according to Yahoo Finance. From there, we made an interest payment table in Excel and added them to
interest expense.
The last step for this portion is to choose what is plug. In our case, we decided to use treasure
stock as our plug, which was also what Benninga used in his model. We have the following reasons to
make this decision: first of all, there was no reasonable calculation for treasury stock because the
company’s managers have the authority to control how many stocks to issue in the future. Secondly, there
was no current debt for the past year. Lastly, the minority interest were 0 for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Therefore, common stock and treasury stocks were our ideal choice. However, common stocks’ value is
equal to par value plus paid in capital. There are two variables. Thus, we decided to choose treasury stock
as our plug, where the treasury stock equals all current liabilities plus debt plus deferred taxes plus
minority interest plus other liabilities plus common stock plus capital surplus plus retained earnings and
finally minus total assets.
Conference Calls
Although there are many exciting news for Panera Bread, the most recent conference call delivers
more negative signals than it expected to be. Panera Bread’s most recent conference call is on October 29,
2014, which is the third quarter of this year. The increasing investment, labor expense and depreciation
expense apparently get its audiences’ attention. They concern the potential risk will impact the
performance of stock price during the rest of quarter. Furthermore, the CFO was not even confident with
the number (3%-3.5% growth rate in the fourth quarter) will be correct. On the other hand, that so-called
good news is not such solid statement. The new opened stores-Panera 2.0-are likely won’t be profit in the
rest of year; instead, they are more likely to increase cost and risk for the growth. Other good news, for
instance, low tax rate is also not certain. We think the executives are knowledgeable regarding the daily
operation and company concerns.
Determination ofWACC
In order to determine the WACC of Panera Bread in 2013, we first computed the beta of the
company by using the historical data from the past five years. We acquired the past five year’s monthly
historical prices from yahoo finance. From there, we computed the slope of the regression line, which is
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the monthly returns of Panera Bread against the monthly returns of S&P 500 Index for the same period of
time. We got the beta of 0.71. (Exhibit 3)
In Benninga’s model, he calculated the WACC by using four different approaches, which are
Gordon per-share dividends model, Gordon equity payout and interest model, CAPM and tax-adjusted
CAPM. However, we didn’t use the Gordon per-share dividends model because Panera Bread does not
pay dividends. We didn’t use the Gordon equity payout and interest model either because the company
treasury stock increased by almost $340 billion dollar amount and again it does not pay dividends.
Therefore, the Gordon equity payout and interest model is not comparable for the calculation of Panera
Bread’s beta. As a result, we use the CAPM and the tax-adjusted CAPM model. The CAPM is equation is
E(r) =Rf+ (Rm-Rf). We choice the risk-free rate is 3.03% according to Bloomberg data (Exhibit 1) and
the expected market return is 9.78%. Therefore, we got the cost of equity is 7.79%. For the tax-adjusted
CAPM, the formula is E(r) =Rf (1-T) + (Rm-Rf (1-T)), where T is the tax rate, in our case which is
37.27%. We got 7.46% for cost of equity under this model.
For cost of debt. we took the interest expense from year 2013, which is $1,053 million, divided
by the average other liabilities from year 2012 and 2013 since the company does not have any long-term
debt in those two years. As a result, we got 0.96% for cost of debt.
From there, we got all the data we needed to calculate the WACC. The formula we used to
determine our WACC was WACC=E/ (E+D)*Ce + D/ (E+D)*Cd*(1-T). We got 7.72% for WACC under
CAPM model and 7.39% for WACC under tax-adjusted CAPM model. Therefore, the final WACC we
used for our valuation process was 7.56%, which was an average of these two. From here, we used
Bloomberg in the trading room to find the WACC of Panera Bread in year 2013 and we got 9.1%.
(Exhibit 2)
Panera Bread Company’s WACC 2013
Calculated WACC 7.56%
Bloomberg WACC 9.10%
Final Valuation
After we got the WACC, we did the final valuation process, which was discounted the following
5 years free cash flows by the WACC. For year 2018, we also calculated the terminal value by taking the
assumption that the long term growth rate was 5%. We got $184.23 for the stock price under our model
and the real stock price was $176.96 on December 31st
2013 according to Yahoo Finance. Therefore, our
rating is hold.
Conclusion
In this project, we first incorporated the data of Panera Bread Company from 2009 to 2013 into
Benninga’s model and made necessary adjustments. Then we analyzed the historical financial data to
build financial models and also tried to make our model as accurate as possible by acquiring all
information we though was important such as the most recent company’s conference calls. Next, we built
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the 5 year Pro froma for 2014-2018. After that we determined the WACC of the company, which allowed
us to finish the final valuation process in the end.
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Reference
Panera Bread Company. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=pnra&type=2button&fr=uh3_finance_web_gs_ctrl2&uhb=uhb2
Panera Bread Company (2013). From 10-K 2013. Retrieved from Panera Bread Company Website
https://www.panerabread.com/en-us/company/financial-reports.html
Panera Bread Company (2013). From 10-Q 2014 Second Quarter. Retrieved from Panera Bread Company
Website https://www.panerabread.com/en-us/company/financial-reports.html
Bloomberg L.P. (2013) Panera Bread Company 2013’s WACC. Retrieved Nov. 23, 2014 from
Bloomberg database.
Bloomberg L.P. (2013) US Generic Govt 10Year Yield. Retrieved Nov. 23, 2014 from Bloomberg
database.
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PNRA's tax rate,TC 37.27%
Market risk free rate,rf 3.03%
Expected market return, E(rM) 9.78%
WACC based on classic CAPM and interest from
financial statements
PNRA beta 0.7060
Cost of equity, rE 7.79%
WACC 7.72%
WACC based on tax-adjusted CAPM and interest
from financial statements
PPGbeta 0.7060
Cost of equity, rE 7.46%
WACC 7.39%
Estimated WACC? 7.56%