Assessing First Majestic Silver (TSX:AG) Valuation After Recent Share Price Swings

Simply Wall St · 6d ago

First Majestic Silver (TSX:AG) has drawn investor attention after recent share price swings, with returns ranging from a 3.7% decline over the past week to a gain of 24.6% in the past 3 months.

See our latest analysis for First Majestic Silver.

Against this backdrop, the recent 7 day share price return of a 3.6% decline and 90 day share price return of 24.6% suggest momentum has cooled in the very short term but remains supportive when you zoom out. At the same time, the 1 year total shareholder return of 166.2% and 3 year total shareholder return of 90.7% hint that investors have been reassessing both growth potential and risk around silver focused producers.

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With the shares trading at CA$22.06, an intrinsic value estimate that is 18% higher, and analyst targets sitting above the current price, you have to ask: is First Majestic still undervalued, or is future growth already priced in?

Most Popular Narrative Narrative: 5% Overvalued

With First Majestic Silver closing at CA$22.06 against a narrative fair value of CA$21.00, the current share price sits slightly above that framework.

The analysts have a consensus price target of CA$13.875 for First Majestic Silver based on their expectations of its future earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

In order for you to agree with the analyst's consensus, you'd need to believe that by 2028, revenues will be $1.2 billion, earnings will come to $94.0 million, and it would be trading on a PE ratio of 77.3x, assuming you use a discount rate of 6.5%.

Read the complete narrative.

Want to see what sits behind that rich earnings multiple and revenue ramp up? The narrative leans on rising margins, higher volumes and a compressed P/E a few years out. Curious which of those drivers does the heavy lifting in the fair value math?

Result: Fair Value of $21 (OVERVALUED)

Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what's behind the forecasts.

However, you still have to weigh the risk that high exploration and development spending, or Mexico focused operational and regulatory issues, could squeeze margins and unsettle earnings.

Find out about the key risks to this First Majestic Silver narrative.

Another View: DCF Points To A Different Story

That 5% overvalued narrative is only one lens. Our DCF model, which projects cash flows and discounts them back using a required return, suggests a fair value of CA$26.89 per share. On that basis, First Majestic at CA$22.06 screens as undervalued. This presents investors with two perspectives to consider when forming their own view.

Look into how the SWS DCF model arrives at its fair value.

AG Discounted Cash Flow as at Jan 2026
AG Discounted Cash Flow as at Jan 2026

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