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M&A Blog #17 – valuation (Comparable Company)

Francine Way

Building the proforma income statement, proforma balance sheet, and Free Cash Flow to Firm (FCFF). Calculating cost of debt, cost of equity, and weighted average cost of capital (WACC). The multiples calculation then proceeded as follow: Market Capitalization = Share Price * Fully-diluted Shares Outstanding.

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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 major steps of DCF are: Identify extraordinary, unusual, non-recurring items from the target’s 10-Ks and 10-Qs.

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M&A Blog #19 – valuation (Leveraged Buy Out - LBO)

Francine Way

The major steps of LBO are: Building the Sources and Uses tables. Building a proforma balance sheet. Building a historical 3-statement model and a debt-interest schedule. Building the go-forward 3-statement model. Building the go-forward debt-interest schedule. Modeling the future exit.

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Wealth Management vs. Investment Banking: Career Deathmatch

Mergers and Inquisitions

You will very rarely get exposed to the type of financial modeling that bankers complete: 3-statement models , DCF models , M&A models , LBO models , and so on. So, you won’t pull all-nighters to finish pitch books , and you won’t be called in over the weekend to make last-minute changes to a model.

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Mastering M&A Valuations: The Comprehensive Guide to Utilizing the Enterprise Value Calculator

Devensoft

As opposed to merely focusing on the market capitalization, which only accounts for the company’s equity value, the Enterprise Value Calculator considers the company’s debt, cash, and other financial liabilities. Discount Rates Discount rates are used in the DCF method to determine the present value of future cash flows.

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Metals & Mining Investment Banking: The Full Guide to Ground Zero for the Energy Transition

Mergers and Inquisitions

For example, Capital IQ splits up the sector by metal type (aluminum, diversified, copper, gold, precious metals, silver, and steel). Valuation , such as the different multiples used for mining companies and the NAV model in place of the DCF (see below). However, mining companies are usually classified based on their focus metal.