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Is Airbnb, Inc. (ABNB) overvalued or undervalued?

Updated Nov 10, 2026 · hand-researched model · educational, not advice

Fair value
$97.52
Market price
$190.29
Downside to fair value
48.8%
Verdict
95% above fair value

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The DCF value below is a real engine result at each WACC (not a re-estimate). Drag to see how sensitive ABNB's DCF is to the discount rate.

Market price: $190.29

At a recent price of $190.29, Airbnb, Inc. (ABNB) trades 95% above TickerWorth's blended fair value of $97.52 per share — a discounted-cash-flow model cross-checked against peer multiples and asset value — meaning the market currently prices ABNB overvalued vs our estimate of what the business is intrinsically worth. Our fair value sits below the market, an implied -48.8% move to close the gap if the business performs in line with our assumptions. This is an educational model, not a price target or a recommendation — the value moves with the inputs, which you can test yourself using the WACC slider below.

One of the lenses behind that blended figure is a discounted-cash-flow model, which on its own values ABNB at about $84.65 per share. The rest of this page walks through that DCF — its assumptions, reverse-DCF and discount-rate sensitivity — because it is the auditable anchor of the blend.

The valuation discounts Airbnb, Inc.'s projected free cash flows at a weighted-average cost of capital (WACC) of 10.9%, with a long-run terminal growth rate of 2.5%. About 71% of the enterprise value comes from the terminal value — the portion beyond the explicit forecast window — which is typical for a stable, cash-generative business and a reminder that small changes in the discount rate or terminal growth assumption swing the intrinsic value meaningfully.

Running the DCF in reverse — solving for the growth the current price already assumes — ABNB would need sustained revenue growth of more than 25%/yr to justify today's price, against about 10.7% a year compounded in our base case. We don't quote a precise figure here, because past about 25% a year the reverse-DCF stops being informative: it solves for revenue growth alone, holding margins, capital intensity and the forecast horizon fixed, so a price well above our fair value has nowhere to go but growth. The honest reading is that the price implies growth this model can't reconcile — not that we forecast it.

Sensitivity matters more than any single number. Across a reasonable band of discount-rate assumptions, ABNB's modeled DCF value ranges from about $69.89 to $111.79 per share. If that range still sits below today's price, the market is optimistic relative to the model across the whole band; if it brackets the price, the stock is roughly fairly valued on our assumptions. Use the interactive slider to see exactly where your own cost-of-capital view lands.

How to read this page: the DCF fair value is what Airbnb, Inc. would be worth if its cash flows grow as modeled and are discounted at the stated WACC. The assumptions table shows every input and its source; the reverse-DCF shows what the market believes; the sensitivity band shows how fragile the answer is. None of this is investment advice — it is a transparent, auditable framework for forming your own view of ABNB's intrinsic value. Figures update as new filings and prices come in.

The assumptions behind ABNB's DCF

InputValueSource
Base-year revenue$12,241,000,000Airbnb FY2025 10-K (accession 0001559720-26-000004, filed 2026-02-12): us-gaap:RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax, FY2025 = $12,241M, +10.3% on FY2024's $11,102M. Quarterly: Q1 $2,272M, Q2 $3,096M, Q3 $4,095M, Q4 $2,778M — Q3 is the summer-stay quarter and carries a third of the year. Revenue is Airbnb's service fees; the $81.8B of Gross Booking Value that flows through the platform is NOT revenue and is not modeled. CROSS-CHECK: H1 2026 revenue was $6,286M, +17.1% on H1 2025's $5,368M (Q1 +18%, Q2 +17%; ex-FX +15% and +13%). TTM to 2026-06-30 is $13,159M. UNCHANGED as the base — the new year belongs in the forecast.
Base EBIT margin20.8%Airbnb FY2025 10-K (accession 0001559720-26-000004, filed 2026-02-12): GAAP income from operations $2,544M / revenue $12,241M = 20.78% (FY2024: $2,553M / $11,102M = 23.0%). This is AFTER $1,592M of stock-based compensation (13.0% of revenue) — the line Airbnb's headline 'Adjusted EBITDA Margin' of 35.1% adds back. It is also after ~$74M of lodging/withholding-tax reserves Airbnb classes as non-recurring, and it EXCLUDES the $705M of interest income, part of which is earned on customer funds (see special_cases). Margin fell 2.2pp in FY2025 because Airbnb spent into new businesses (Services and Experiences, launched May 2025) and marketing while revenue grew 10%. CROSS-CHECK, H1 2026: operating income $844M / $6,286M = 13.4% against 12.1% in H1 2025 — +1.3pp YoY. The first half is always thin; H2 2025 ran 27.6% ($1,894M on $6,873M).
Forecast revenue growth16% → 11% → 10% → 9% → 8%Assumption — TickerWorth's 5-year explicit forecast
Risk-free rate5.2%US 10Y Treasury constant maturity (FRED DGS10): 5.24% on 2026-10-01, the latest published observation. House input shared by every model in this tracker.
Beta1.16Yahoo Finance / yfinance published beta (5Y monthly): Published 5Y-monthly beta 1.161, used UNCHANGED. Airbnb listed in December 2020, so the 60-month window is now almost entirely post-IPO and post-pandemic-reopening; the early reopening whipsaw has rolled out of it. No normalization: travel is genuinely more cyclical than the market, and the stock just showed it (-21% in the month to 23 Sep on an AI-agent scare, +17% in a day on Q2). Each 0.1 of beta is worth roughly $4/share here. The reverse DCF in the explainer shows the price implies a discount rate of ~6.5%, i.e. a beta near 0.27 — no plausible beta closes the gap on its own.
Terminal growth2.5%Assumption — house default: House default 2.5% (roughly long-run nominal GDP), kept for comparability. For Airbnb this is on the CONSERVATIVE side of the judgement: the explicit forecast still has revenue growing 8% in 2030, so the step to 2.5% forever is abrupt, and global travel spending has historically grown faster than GDP. A 3.0% terminal rate adds ~$3.35/share. Must remain < WACC of ~10.9%.
Diluted shares597MAirbnb Q2 2026 10-Q (accession 0001559720-26-000027, filed 2026-08-06): Q2 2026 weighted-average diluted shares 597M (H1 2026: 602M; FY2025: 623M; FY2024: 645M). Falling fast: Airbnb bought back $3,789M of stock in FY2025 and $2,139M in H1 2026, more than offsetting issuance. NOTE THE WIDER COUNT: the Q2 letter puts the FULLY diluted count at 634M (590M outstanding + 44M stock-based awards). The treasury-method 597M is the house input; on 634M the per-share value would be ~6% lower. Because future SBC is expensed inside EBIT, using 634M would partly double-count it.
Market price$190.29Delayed quote · as of 2026-11-10 05:25 UTC

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