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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 #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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The Dividend Discount Model (DDM): The Black Sheep of Valuation?

Mergers and Inquisitions

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. In other words, you profit based on the company’s dividend s and the potential increases in its stock price over time.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Metals & Mining Investment Banking Definition: In metals & mining investment banking, professionals advise companies that find, produce, and distribute base metals, bulk commodities, and precious metals on debt and equity issuances and mergers and acquisitions. What Do You Do as an Analyst or Associate in the Group?