What's the intrinsic value of stocks that don't distribute dividends in this model?
Note that from shareholders' perspective, paying dividends is economically equivalent to share buyback, plus some tax considerations, so there are exceptions.
Which is obviously wrong, right? Any company that has liquid assets (and no debt) is at least worth the selling value of these assets, even if it doesn't pay dividends. So I'm not sure your model helps here.
You value the company and then you can divide the price by the total number of shares if you want. Apart from some rare exceptions like Amazon in its first years, a company which doesn’t generate any cash-flows is soon to be an ex-company.
Dividends muddy the water a bit but you get the general idea.
That’s only DCF valuation. It is not the be all and all of valuation. DCF is a way to value perpetuity. It makes sense for assets you can assimilate to a perpetuity (like a company). It makes no sense if you can’t. The easiest counter examples are raw materials and currencies.