Francine Way

JULY 12, 2017

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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How2Exit

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are typically characterized by their relatively small number of employees, revenue, and market share compared to large corporations. You must be willing to explore different sources for deals, build relationships within your industry or niche, and reach out directly to business owners.

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Francine Way

JULY 17, 2017

While this method is not usually used by strategic acquirers (corporations) to justify their offers, savvy strategic acquirers do perform the analysis to figure out what a PE competitor in an auction environment would be willing to pay for a target. The major steps of LBO are: Building the Sources and Uses tables.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 22, 2025

At the junior levels , entry-level professionals in both fields spend a lot of time in Excel working on models, valuations, and documents such as equity research reports and investment banking pitch books. If you do IB, you can get into deal-based roles ( private equity , corporate development , venture capital , etc.),

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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Devensoft

AUGUST 22, 2023

These tools enable professionals to build detailed valuation models that consider various factors influencing a company’s value. The Enterprise Value Calculator incorporates various techniques, such as the discounted cash flow (DCF) method, market multiples, and comparable transactions analysis.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 19, 2023

Valuation , such as the different multiples used for mining companies and the NAV model in place of the DCF (see below). On the producer side, you can see how much they spend to build new plants, factories, and processing centers. A recent mining deal , especially if the bank you’re interviewing with advised on it.

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