Are IV tools misleading ?

Now a days Intrinsic value calculators are everywhere now, simply type in a ticker, get a number, feel confident!...

 

…until you realize most of them will fail you for the very same reasons.

 

Many calculators, analysts, or even retailers rely on just a few ways to estimate intrinsic value.

 

The most common is Discounted Cash Flow analysis, others rely on Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio to decide what a stock “should” be worth.

 

these methods sound logical but, they often fail for the same reasons.

 

❌ a reliance on rigid assumptions.

❌ treatment of different businesses the same way.
❌ failing once growth slows, margins shift, or the business changes.

 

all of this means that when you run the same stock data through different intrinsic value calculators and walk away with completely different answers.