When someone makes financial estimates on the DCF input pages, what do they base those expectations off of? Economic factors mainly? Solely previous earnings?
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ER reports, superiors, etc
independent market research, management guidance, historicals etc.
gut feeling
Whatever IRR they need to convince purchasers they'll achieve to get the deal done...
Historical evidence, trends, macro factors. Typically gross margins stay static for instance and revenue and profit margin for established businesses typically grow within a trend line. Macro inputs such as risk free rate are usually assumed to be the 10 year govt T Bill. Analysts also look into quarterly and annual reports to try to estimate figures such as CAPEX
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