Market-implied expectations
Also known as: Reverse DCF
Market-implied expectations is what a valuation model reveals when it's run in reverse: instead of assuming growth and profitability to calculate a fair price, the current market price is held fixed and the model is solved backward for what assumptions would be needed to justify it.
Comparing those implied assumptions against what a business has shown it can do, and against what its market can realistically support, turns a 's price into something that can be checked rather than a fact simply accepted at face value.