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What do you use to discount the Cash Flows? Expected growth? Some sort of IRR you arrive at?

Just to describe some of my background. I was a Corporate Finance Major in Undergrad (It's a blend of Intermediate Accounting and Finance). I went back to school for an MBA and a Masters in Finance. I was a CFA Level 1 Candidate, failed twice, ended up in the 90th percentile of those who've failed both times. Through my academic career I've learned all about the Cash Flow models for projecting Cash and imputing Growth Rates into future projections, but to this very day I can do a zillion different analyses of a company's Financial Statements yet I cannot arrive at a methodology for what a ballpark Stock Price should be. Dividend Discount model has proved to be inefficient because of inconsistencies with Dividends. Comparables method is fine but it's entirely reliant on the type of market the security is in. And the Discounted Cash Flow model appears like it may be the one I'm most interested in learning but I'm the least familiar completing it from A-Z with a REAL set of Financials (and not some mock test example). If anybody knows any books that they recommend about stock valuation methodologies I would greatly appreciate it. I prefer books that are more on the quantitative and scientific side. I don't need to read another book of general theory or "This is what a P/E ratio is." I'm well past all of that in my education. Thanks in advance!