Clean & Science

045520 · KOSDAQ · ₩045520 · 크린앤사이언스

₩2,385▼ ₩125 (4.98%)End-of-day · Oct 30, 2026 · End-of-day prices.
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Valuation model · Discounted cash flow (DCF)

We use a 5-year discounted cash flow: the value of the cash the business is expected to produce, in today's money.

Fair value per share

With these assumptions the model gives no positive value.

Enterprise value
−₩44B
Equity value
−₩71B
WACC
5.2%

Model estimate based on the assumptions shown. Not a price target and not a buy or sell signal. This is not financial advice.

Why the model and the price differ

The model gives no positive value at these assumptions. What we can see:

  • To match today's price of ₩2,385, the model needs an operating margin of 2.8% every year (it uses −1.7%).
  • Margins ranged from −12.7% to 1.0% over the last 5 years, so this is a cyclical business. The model uses the average; the price may be set by where the cycle is now. Try the margin fade option.
  • In the projection, spending on equipment, software and working capital takes most or all of the after-tax operating profit, so free cash flow is thin. Companies that invest heavily often look like this until spending slows.

Treat the model as a starting point: change the assumptions to the story you believe, and compare with the multiples check below.

Bear / Base / Bull

Bear
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Base
—
Bull
—

Bear: revenue growth 3 points lower every year, EBIT margin 2 points lower, WACC 1 point higher. Bull: the opposite.

Assumptions

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Cycle options

Margin path

Every year uses the cycle-average margin (−1.7%).

Revenue growth

  • 0%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (0% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 0.8%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (0% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 1.5%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (0% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 2.3%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (0% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

  • 3%

    How much sales grow that year, compared with the year before.

    Default: the last 3 years' revenue growth (0% a year, annual reports), fading to 3% by year 5.

Business

  • -1.7%

    Operating profit as a share of revenue.

    Default: through-the-cycle average of the last 12 months and the last 5 annual reports' operating margins.

  • 27.5%

    Share of operating profit paid as corporate tax.

    Default: Korea's top corporate tax rate (25%) plus 10% local income tax.

  • 0.8%

    The non-cash cost of wearing out equipment, added back to cash flow (% of revenue).

    Default: not in the statements, so 80% of capital spending (most spending replaces equipment that wears out).

  • 1.1%

    Money spent on factories, equipment, software and other long-term assets (% of revenue).

    Default: average of the last 3 annual reports (cash flow statements; equipment and intangibles).

  • 16.2%

    Stock and unpaid customer bills, less unpaid supplier bills, as a % of revenue. Each year's extra revenue ties up this much more cash.

    Default: working capital (current assets less cash and deposits, minus current liabilities other than borrowings) as a share of revenue, averaged over the last 3 years.

Discount rate

  • 2%

    How fast cash flows keep growing every year after year 5.

    Default: about Korea's long-run inflation plus real growth.

  • 4.01%

    Yield on Korea's 10-year government bond: the return with almost no risk.

    Default: Korea Treasury Bond 10-year yield on 2026-10-30.

  • 0.6

    How much the share moves when the market moves: 1 means just like the market.

    Default: 105 weeks of weekly returns against KOSPI (official index); raw beta -0.02, adjusted toward 1 and kept between 0.6 and 2.0.

  • 5.5%

    The extra return investors want for owning shares instead of bonds.

    Default: a typical premium for Korean shares.

  • 5.51%

    The interest rate the company would pay to borrow.

    Default: the 10-year yield plus a 1.5% credit spread.

Starting point

Revenue (TTM to H1 2026)
₩85B
Net debt (borrowings and leases − cash and deposits)
₩28B
+ Stakes and investments
₩1B
Associates, long-term financial assets and deposits (book value)
Shares
6,500,000
Share price
₩2,385
Market cap
₩16B

TTM = trailing 12 months: the last four reported quarters added together. "TTM to H1 2026" is the 12 months up to the latest quarterly or half-year report (H1 = to the end of June). Year 1 grows from there.

Past years and projection

Grey columns are reported results from the annual reports (after-tax EBIT at the model's tax rate), so you can check the growth and margin assumptions against the past. Years 1–5 are the model.

FY2023FY2024FY2025Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5
Revenue₩92B₩85B₩86B₩85B₩86B₩87B₩89B₩91B
Growth7.5%−8.5%1.7%0.0%0.8%1.5%2.3%3.0%
EBIT₩938M−₩849M−₩965M−₩1.4B−₩1.5B−₩1.5B−₩1.5B−₩1.6B
EBIT margin1.0%−1.0%−1.1%−1.7%−1.7%−1.7%−1.7%−1.7%
After-tax EBIT₩680M−₩615M−₩700M−₩1B−₩1.1B−₩1.1B−₩1.1B−₩1.1B
+ Depreciation———₩679M₩684M₩694M₩710M₩732M
− Capital spending₩557M₩872M₩1.3B₩933M₩941M₩955M₩977M₩1B
− Working capital−₩14B₩1.8B−₩2.2B₩0₩110M₩208M₩323M₩432M
Free cash flow———−₩1.3B−₩1.4B−₩1.5B−₩1.7B−₩1.8B
Discount factor———0.9510.9040.8590.8170.777
Present value———−₩1.2B−₩1.3B−₩1.3B−₩1.4B−₩1.4B

Terminal value −₩48B, worth −₩37B today: 85% of enterprise value. It assumes spending settles at 110% of depreciation once growth slows to the terminal rate.

Cross-check: what the market has paid before

For cyclical businesses, analysts check a DCF against the multiples the stock has traded at through past cycles. Price / book is the usual anchor for them: P/E looks highest at the bottom of a cycle, when earnings are smallest, and lowest at the top. The price each band would give today:

LowTypicalHigh
Price / book (book value ₩2,779 a share)Now 0.86×₩3,0711.11×₩4,0171.45×₩6,6402.39×

Low, typical and high are the 10th percentile, middle and 90th percentile of month-end multiples since 2021, each against the latest report out by then, per share at today's share count; loss years and P/E above 100 are left out. Run-rate earnings are one quarter × 4, not a forecast. Model estimate based on the assumptions shown. Not a price target and not a buy or sell signal.

Sensitivity

Fair value per share as two inputs change; the middle is the current case.

WACC ↓ · Terminal growth →1.0%1.5%2.0%2.5%3.0%
4.2%—————
4.7%—————
5.2%—————
5.7%—————
6.2%—————

Now (TTM)

Market cap
₩16B
Enterprise value
₩43B
P/E
—
P/B
0.9×
P/S
0.2×
EV/EBITDA
—
Dividend yield
0.0%

Over time (at each year end)

20252024202320222021
Price₩3,470₩4,380₩7,930₩9,370₩19,700
Market cap₩23B₩28B₩52B₩61B₩128B
P/E——57.1×——
P/B1.3×1.4×1.9×2.2×3.0×
P/S0.3×0.3×0.6×0.7×1.1×
EV/EBITDA—————
Dividend yield0.0%————

Versus similar companies

CompanyP/EP/BP/SEV/EBITDADividend yield
Clean & Science—0.9×0.2×—0.0%
Doosan Enerbility193.9×4.3×2.0×—0.0%
Hanmi Semiconductor78.4×23.3×31.6×70.6×0.4%
Jusung Engineering1,058.2×13.0×34.0×2,036.0×0.0%
Rainbow Robotics4,137.6×53.0×156.2×—0.0%
EO Technics44.1×6.4×10.8×—0.0%
Doosan Bobcat13,622.5×911.6×733.9×—3.5%
Similar companies (median)626.0×18.1×32.8×1,053.3×0.0%

Calculated from end-of-day prices and filed financial statements. Not a recommendation. This is not financial advice.

Also known as: Clean & Science / 크린앤사이언스 / 045520 / KRX:045520

Source: KRX statistical information