Wondering if Toll Brothers is still good value after its huge multi year run, or if you have missed the moment? This breakdown will help you decide whether the current price makes sense.

The stock has cooled slightly in the last week with a -0.6% move, but it is still up 4.0% over the last month and 11.5% year to date, on the back of a standout 193.6% gain over 3 years and 231.0% over 5 years, even though it is down 9.1% over the last year.

Those swings are happening against a backdrop of resilient US housing demand, constrained new home supply and ongoing discussion about the path of interest rates, all of which shape sentiment around homebuilders like Toll Brothers. At the same time, investors are weighing how luxury focused builders might fare if the economy slows while higher income buyers remain relatively insulated.

Right now, Toll Brothers scores a solid 5 out of 6 on our valuation checks, suggesting the market may still be underestimating parts of the story. Next, we will walk through how different valuation approaches view the stock, before finishing with a more holistic way to think about its true worth.

Find out why Toll Brothers's -9.1% return over the last year is lagging behind its peers.

A Discounted Cash Flow model estimates what a business is worth by projecting the cash it can generate in the future and discounting those cash flows back to today. For Toll Brothers, the model used is a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity approach, based on cash flows available to shareholders.

Toll Brothers currently generates about $920.3 Million in free cash flow, and analysts, combined with Simply Wall St extrapolations, see this staying robust over time. By 2035, projected free cash flow is about $1.28 Billion, with the path there including some moderation from near term peaks as the business normalizes.

Bringing all those future cash flows back to today in dollar terms gives an estimated intrinsic value of about $192.35 per share. Compared with the current share price, this implies the stock is roughly 27.8% undervalued. This suggests the market is not fully pricing in the cash Toll Brothers is expected to generate.

Result: UNDERVALUED

Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests Toll Brothers is undervalued by 27.8%. Track this in your watchlist or portfolio, or discover 906 more undervalued stocks based on cash flows.

Head to the Valuation section of our Company Report for more details on how we arrive at this Fair Value for Toll Brothers.

For consistently profitable companies like Toll Brothers, the price to earnings, or PE, ratio is a straightforward way to gauge whether investors are paying a reasonable price for each dollar of earnings. What counts as a fair PE depends on how fast earnings are expected to grow and how risky those earnings are, with higher growth and lower risk usually justifying a higher multiple.

Toll Brothers currently trades on a PE of about 9.7x, which sits below both the Consumer Durables industry average of roughly 11.4x and the broader peer group average of around 18.5x. On the surface, that discount suggests the market is more cautious about Toll Brothers than about many of its peers, despite its strong long term performance.

Simply Wall St’s Fair Ratio goes further by estimating what PE the company should trade on, given its earnings growth profile, margins, risks, industry positioning and market cap. For Toll Brothers, that Fair Ratio is 16.4x, meaning the stock trades at a meaningful discount to where it might sit if those fundamentals were fully reflected in the price.

Result: UNDERVALUED

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Earlier we mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation. Let us introduce Narratives, which are simple stories that you create about a company like Toll Brothers by linking your view of its business drivers to a financial forecast, then to a fair value. This is done in an easy to use tool on Simply Wall St’s Community page that millions of investors already use to decide when to buy or sell by comparing their Narrative Fair Value to the current price. These Narratives automatically update as new earnings or news arrives. For example, one investor might build a bullish Toll Brothers Narrative around strong luxury housing demand, margin expansion and a fair value closer to the most optimistic analyst target of about $183. Another might focus on spec build risks and slower growth and see fair value nearer the most cautious target of about $92. Both perspectives can sit side by side, transparently tying each story back to explicit assumptions for revenue, earnings and margins.

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