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M&A Blog #15 – valuation (tools and data preparation)

Francine Way

Each peer business’ share price, fully-diluted shares outstanding, total debt, total cash, last 12 months (LTM) revenue and EBITDA, book value of equity, and goodwill: Can be obtained from sources such as MarketWatch. Information listed in the DCF analysis: See the items listed under DCF above.

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Buy Side M&A Blog Series - Vol 7 - Valuing The Target

RKJ Partners

It is important that the buyer’s deal team includes an experienced investment banking professional that can effectively and efficiently facilitate the appropriate business, financial, and valuation-related analyses during due diligence, and ultimately the completion of a business valuation.

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Equity Research vs. Investment Banking: Careers, Compensation, Exits, and AI/Automation Risk

Mergers and Inquisitions

People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. The difference is that in IB, this work product is designed to pitch, win, and close deals , while in ER, its more for the standalone analysis of public companies.