DCF Debt Information 
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.
Francine Way
JULY 11, 2017
I will discuss general tools and credible sources of information that a valuation professional can use for the analysis. 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.
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Francine Way
JULY 17, 2017
Building a historical 3-statement model and a debt-interest schedule. Building the go-forward debt-interest schedule. Implied Equity Purchase Price = Transaction Value - Debt + Cash. For this table, recall that LBO transactions are heavily financed with debt (it can go up to 90% of the capital structure for some deals).
Francine Way
JULY 14, 2017
Data sources like Pitchbook would often capture the Transaction Value at the time of the transaction announcement as well, so we list this information in our model and use it to calculate the sample transactions’ Implied TEV/Revenue and TEV/EBITDA as follow: Implied TEV/Revenue Multiple = Transaction Value / target’s LTM Revenue.
Lake Country Advisors
AUGUST 8, 2024
Collect Transaction Data: Gather detailed information about each transaction, including the purchase price, financial metrics of the acquired company (e.g., Gather detailed information about these transactions, such as the acquired companies’ purchase price, revenue, and EBITDA. revenue, EBITDA), and the terms of the deal.
Mergers and Inquisitions
MAY 3, 2023
It can be useful for certain companies, such as power and utility firms and midstream (pipeline) operators in oil & gas … …but it’s also much harder to set up and use than a standard DCF. The basic set of steps looks like this: Step 1: Forecast Revenue and Expenses This is the same as in any other 3-statement model or DCF.
Francine Way
JULY 19, 2017
Thus far, we have discussed five valuation methods: DCF, Comparable Company, Precedent Transaction, LBO, and Dividend Discount Model (DDM). At the minimum, a valuation professional should be informed about population, sampling, mean, standard deviation, standard error, different probability distributions, and binomial scenarios.
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