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TIMKEN CO (TKR) stock intrinsic value fair value estimate & owner earnings analysis

Margin of safety$38.00 Updated
$19.70 $91.60
bear $19.70 base $55.40 bull $91.60 margin of safety $38.00 market price* $112.39
Screen: TKR (The Timken Company, Ohio-based bearings and mechanical power transmission manufacturer) is a standard US industrial, no China/cannabis/crypto/shell characteristics, and the FY2025 10-K carries no going-concern language. DCF proceeds. Owner earnings (CFO - capex - SBC) over FY2016-2025: $252M, $107M, $188M, $382M, $433M, $219M, $255M, $327M, $280M, $378M - a moderately cyclical industrial pattern (dips in 2017 and 2021) with OE/diluted share growing from $3.18 (2016) to $5.38 (2025), a ~6% 10-year CAGR; capex for 2023-2025 was pulled from the FY2025 10-K's free-cash-flow reconciliation table (XBRL PaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment tag stopped being populated after FY2022 in this dataset). Base OE/share uses the FY2023-2025 3-year average of $4.62. Two-stage 10-year DCF: bear assumes flat 0% growth (echoing the 2017/2021 dips), 11.5% discount, 1.5% terminal growth; base assumes 4.5% growth (moderated from the 6% historical CAGR), 9.5% discount, 2.5% terminal; bull assumes 7% growth (close to the best sustained stretch, 2018-2020), 8.5% discount, 2.75% terminal. Net debt is meaningful and has grown from Timken's active bolt-on M&A program: FY2025 total debt of ~$1,950.8M (LT debt $1,897.5M + current LT debt $14.4M + other current debt $38.9M) against $364.4M cash, about -$22.59/share of net debt on 70.23M diluted shares, which pulls per-share intrinsic value down materially in all three scenarios: bear ~$19.70, base ~$55.40, bull ~$91.60. This is a fairly standard-predictability industrial rather than an extreme cyclical or a staple, so the margin of safety uses roughly the recipe's typical ~30% discount to base case; the margin-of-safety price is set at $38. No unresolved data caveats beyond the capex-tag gap noted above, which was closed from the 10-K text.

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