• If you are wondering whether Roku stock still offers value after its recent run, the numbers give you a useful starting point but not the full story.
• Roku shares last closed at US$127.98, with returns of 13.6% over 7 days, 30.3% over 30 days, 17.7% year to date and 113.7% over 1 year, while the 5 year return sits at a 58.5% decline.
• These moves have kept Roku in the spotlight, with investors paying close attention to how the business is positioning itself within the streaming and connected TV market. This broader context helps explain why sentiment has shifted at different points even as the long term share price record remains mixed.
• On Simply Wall St's valuation checks, Roku earns a value score of 2 out of 6. The next sections look at how different valuation methods assess the stock and set up a more detailed way to think about value by the end of the article.

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Approach 1: Roku Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis

A Discounted Cash Flow, or DCF, model takes the cash a company is expected to generate in the future and discounts those projected cash flows back to today, producing an estimate of what the business could be worth right now.

For Roku, the model used is a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity approach based on cash flow projections. The company’s last twelve months free cash flow is about $527.9 million. Analyst estimates and subsequent extrapolations by Simply Wall St project free cash flow rising to $1.7b in 2030, with a series of annual projections between 2026 and 2035 that are discounted back to today’s value.

Pulling these together, the DCF model arrives at an estimated intrinsic value of about $206.31 per share, compared with the recent share price of $127.98. That implies the stock is around 38.0% undervalued on this set of cash flow assumptions. This represents a meaningful gap for investors to weigh against the risks and uncertainty embedded in any long term forecast.

Result: UNDERVALUED

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Approach 2: Roku Price vs Earnings

For profitable companies, the P/E ratio is a useful way to think about value because it links what you pay for each share to the earnings that the business is currently generating. A higher or lower P/E often reflects what the market expects for future growth and how much risk investors see in those earnings.

Roku currently trades on a P/E of 93.81x. That is well above the Entertainment industry average of 27.79x and the peer group average of 43.05x, which indicates that the market is assigning a much richer earnings multiple to the stock than to many of its industry peers.

Simply Wall St’s Fair Ratio for Roku is 34.09x. This is a proprietary estimate of what a more typical P/E might be for the stock given its earnings growth profile, industry, profit margins, market cap and company specific risks. Because it factors in these fundamentals, the Fair Ratio can be a more tailored reference point than a simple comparison with industry or peer averages.

Comparing Roku’s current P/E of 93.81x with the Fair Ratio of 34.09x indicates that the stock is trading above what this framework would view as a more typical level.

Result: OVERVALUED

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Upgrade Your Decision Making: Choose your Roku Narrative

Earlier it was mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation. Narratives are introduced here as a simple way for you to attach a clear story about Roku to the numbers you care about, such as fair value, future revenue, earnings and margins.

A Narrative on Simply Wall St is your view of how Roku’s business story plays out, linked directly to a financial forecast and a resulting fair value, so you are not looking at price ratios in isolation.

On the Community page, millions of investors use Narratives as an accessible tool to set their own assumptions, compare fair value to the current price and decide whether they see Roku as closer to the bullish view, with a fair value of about US$158.85, or the more cautious view, with fair value around US$94.08.

Because Narratives on the platform refresh when new information such as news, earnings or regulatory updates is added, your story and fair value for Roku can adjust over time rather than staying fixed on a single point estimate.

For Roku, however, we will make it easy for you with previews of two leading Roku narratives:

Think of these as two clear storylines that sit behind the numbers you have already seen, one that sees more upside potential from here and one that leans more cautious.

Each narrative links assumptions about revenue, margins and risk to a fair value, so you can decide which version feels closer to your own expectations before you act on the current share price.

Fair value: US$128.37

Share price vs this fair value: about 0.3% below the narrative fair value based on the last close of US$127.98

Assumed annual revenue growth: 13.22%

• Sees the long term shift from linear TV to streaming and digital ads as a support for active account growth, engagement and higher margin advertising revenue on Roku's platform.
• Assumes investments in The Roku Channel, self service advertising tools and operating discipline support rising profit margins, with earnings projected at US$668.3m by about April 2029.
• Anchors on an analyst consensus fair value of US$128.37, which is based on expected revenue of US$6.9b, earnings of US$668.3m and a future P/E of 37.2x, using a discount rate in the range of 8.9% to 8.93%.

Fair value: US$94.08

Share price vs this fair value: about 36.0% above the narrative fair value based on the last close of US$127.98

Assumed annual revenue growth: 12.62%

• Focuses on risks from heavier reliance on digital ad revenue, privacy regulation, maturing streaming adoption and stronger competition from larger tech ecosystems that could limit active account growth and monetization.
• Builds in lower long term margins, with earnings of US$550.4m and revenue of US$6.8b by about April 2029, paired with a lower assumed future P/E of 33.1x and a discount rate of about 9.0%.
• Arrives at a fair value of US$94.08, which sits closer to the bearish end of analyst targets that range from US$85.00 to US$160.00, and treats the current share price as rich against those assumptions.

The key takeaway is that both narratives use structured forecasts and explicit assumptions. They differ in how strong Roku's advertising opportunity, competitive position and margin trajectory might be.

Your job as an investor is to decide which set of assumptions feels more realistic given what you know about streaming, digital advertising and your own risk tolerance, and then check how that view lines up with the current share price before making any portfolio decisions.

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This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.