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Methods and Examples on How to Value a Company

Lake Country Advisors

It’s integral to ensuring that the sale benefits all stakeholders and should be one of your priorities before advertising it to potential buyers. It’s a delicate balancing act, as inaccurate valuations have polarizing consequences. However, company valuation isn’t as simple as slapping a price on your business.

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

Francine Way

Access to credible sources of information such as SEC EDGAR database , Treasury.gov , OECD GDP Forecast , Mergent Online, S&P Capital IQ, Hoovers, ValueLine, Yahoo Finance , MarketWatch , and Damodaran Online. Information listed in the DCF analysis: See the items listed under DCF above.

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

Francine Way

Calculate cost of debt, cost of equity, and weighted average cost of capital (WACC). For interest income and expense, I prefer to state them as percentages of the average debt balance of the last two years. The maturity of a company also factors into the number of growth stages that should be modeled in DCF.