Negative Equity Value Per share

Hi 

Ive been doing this DCF valuation of TATA motors and im getting negative EQUITY VALUE PER SHARE 
they have negative NET WORKING CAPITAL, Negative EBITDA which is further affecting the Reinvestment rate and here in INDIA the tax rate is 25% 

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Do you mean negative shareholders' equity? It's not possible to have negative equity value. The minimum equity value can be is 0.

 

eq value is the market cap i.e shares outstanding x share price (neither of which can be negative - shareholders have limited liability in that if a stock goes to 0, they simply lose their investment) or in the case of a dcf, you’d divide eq value by shares outstanding to get to the implied share price, in which case negative eq value would yield a negative share price, also not possible

 

No. The market cap is what investors (if it's public) think the equity is worth. If they think that's zero or less than zero the share price does not, obviously, clear any market - public or private - at a negative number, but we are talking about a valuation, not a range of possible share prices at which investors transact. The OP was about a DCF that yielded a negative share price. That is entirely possible, and it is exactly what a DCF would spit out if you ran one on a company whose future cash flows in perpetuity had a value that was lower than its net debt balance. Ask yourself this: What share price would a DCF have generated if you'd modeled an accurate one on wework or lehman immediately prior to either one's bankruptcy? 

 

Genuine question, and don't take offence because I'm also of Indian descent - why do Indians write random words in all caps as if you're shouting in the middle of a sentence? I.e. "TATA", "INDIA", etc. 

 

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