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Set your assumptions
Qwest on revenue: sales per share grow and the stock trades at a normal price-to-sales multiple. For companies not yet profitable.
Years to project
Growth of revenue per share
Revenue per share; starts at its own recent growth
Exit P/S
Starts at its own median P/S over five years
Your desired return
Margin of safety
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Your buy price
The expected return is measured from it; starts at today's price
How it's worked out
Today's revenue per share
Last twelve months
$4.54B
Revenue in 2031
Grows 0.0% a year for 5 years
$4.54B
Price in 2031
$4.54B × 0.5 P/S
$2.27B
Worth today
÷ 1.10^5: your 10% a year, taken back out
$1.41B
Fair value
The most you can pay and still earn 10% a year
$1.41B
Buy below
Fair value minus your 25% margin of safety
$1.06B
Paying $21.07 instead gives 3940.5% a year. Every rule is on the methodology page.
Outcome
What your assumptions give, and the path from today's price.
Fair value
$1.41B
Expected return
3940.5% a year
Future price, 2031
$2.27B
Buy below
$1.06B
Price 100% below fair valuePrice $21.07, at your 10% return
Projection
Solid blue: the price at each year end. Dashed blue: from today's price to the 2031 price. Green: from the fair value, rising at your 10% a year to the same end point; buy at or below it and you earn at least that. Every rule is on the methodology page. A model, not a forecast or advice.
Build your own intrinsic value for Qwest Corp. Start from three cases based on the company's own filings, then change any number to match your view.
The default base case is 638835709× today's price. A gap that wide usually comes from unusual cash flow history, such as a jump from a low base or a gap in the reported figures, not from a real bargain or bubble. Check the free cash flow history below and set growth you believe before relying on it.
Conservative
$11,539,083,634.56
54765465655% above the priceof $21.07
Buy below $8,654,312,725.92 for a 25% safety margin
Your assumptions
Base
$13,460,268,383.34
63883570775% above the priceof $21.07
Buy below $10,095,201,287.51 for a 25% safety margin
Your assumptions
Optimistic
$15,547,200,000.00
73788324532% above the priceof $21.07
Buy below $11,660,400,000.00 for a 25% safety margin
Your assumptions
Where today's price sits
Today's price falls outside the modelled range.
Verdict
Today's price sits below all three scenarios. That reading is only as reliable as the growth rates entered.
Base free cash flow
$837M
Trailing twelve months
Historical FCF CAGR
-17.8%
Across 6 reported periods
Market implies
–
No solution in range
Terminal value share
59%
Of the base case valuation
Growth needed to justify today's price
No growth rate in the tested range reproduces today's price at these assumptions.
Curve holds terminal growth at 2.5%, years 6 to 10 at half the first-stage rate, and applies no safety margin.
Free cash flow history
The most recent period is the base every projection starts from. Compounded, that history is -17.8% a year.
Qwest (CTBB) intrinsic value and fair value
The calculator grows one of Qwest's per-share figures (earnings, free cash flow, revenue, book value or dividends) for a few years, puts an exit multiple on it, and discounts the result back at the yearly return you want. The answers below use its starting inputs for CTBB; this is analysis, not investment advice.
Frequently asked
What is Qwest's (CTBB) intrinsic value?+
With Intrinsiqq's starting inputs, Qwest's fair value is about $1.41B a share, based on its revenue per share. That assumes revenue per share of $4.54B grows about 0.0% a year for 5 years, the stock then trades at 0.5 times revenue, and you want a 10.0% yearly return. On its other figures: free cash flow $2.60B. Every input can be changed on the page; the result is a model, not a forecast.
Is Qwest overvalued?+
At $21.07, the price is 100% below that fair value of $1.41B, and buying at today's price would return about 3940.5% a year if those inputs hold. Whether that is cheap or dear depends on whether you believe the growth and the exit multiple, which is what the calculator lets you test. This is analysis from SEC filings, not investment advice.
What growth does the Qwest valuation assume?+
Revenue per share grows about 0.0% a year to start, its own recent growth per share (three years for a company not yet profitable, five otherwise). The exit multiple starts at its own median over five years.
What is a good margin of safety for Qwest?+
A margin of safety is the cushion you want below the fair value before buying, in case the inputs are wrong. The calculator uses 25%, which puts the buy-below price at $1.06B. Less predictable businesses deserve a wider cushion, or a higher desired return.
SourceFair value computed from the 10-Q filed 5 May 2026, covering the period ending 31 Mar 2026, as reported to the SEC. Data last refreshed 14 Oct 2026. How this is calculated.
Price from market data, last close as of 11 Sept 2026. Fiscal year ends Dec.
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Held by ETFs
CTBB is in 6 US ETFs. The largest of them, with CTBB's weight in each:
Invesco Preferred ETFPGX1.23%of the fund
VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETFPFXF1.24%of the fund
- PFVirtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETFPFFA3.54%of the fund
Goldman Sachs Access U.S. Preferred Stock and Hybrid Securities ETFGPRF0.14%of the fund
Fidelity Preferred Securities & Income ETFFPFD0.29%of the fund
- VPVirtus InfraCap Preferred and Income Securities ETFVPFF3.26%of the fund
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