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M&A Blog #16 – valuation (Discounted Cash Flow)

Francine Way

As I mentioned in my last post, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) is a valuation method that uses free cash flow projections, a discount rate, and a growth rate to find the present value estimate of a potential investment. The cost of debt = the weighted, post-tax cost of debt.

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Should I Sell My Insurance Agency?

Sica Fletcher

seller's discretionary earnings, discounted cash flow), they are so rarely used in insurance M&A that we do not include them here. You can find these with most major M&A advisory firms (like Sica | Fletcher’s own SF Index ) or through 3rd party monitoring institutions like S&P Global Data or Pitchbook.