Francine Way

JULY 11, 2017

Inexpensive Excel-plugin simulator such as @RISK are available for download online. Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) i s 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.

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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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Francine Way

JULY 13, 2017

As we have previously covered what are needed to complete these steps in our DCF discussion , I would refer to those steps (1 through 7) here. As we have previously covered what are needed to complete these steps in our DCF discussion , I would refer to those steps (9 through 12) here. TEV stands for Total Enterprise Value.

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Francine Way

JULY 19, 2017

Thus far, we have discussed five valuation methods: DCF, Comparable Company, Precedent Transaction, LBO, and Dividend Discount Model (DDM). In all of these discussions, we assumed a set of static values for our variables. In other words, we assumed that each variable can have only one value. To-date, we have lumped them together.

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Francine Way

JULY 18, 2017

Projected Book Value of Equity at the end of the 15 years = from the proforma balance sheet that we developed in our DCF post. For this valuation post, I wanted to talk about a valuation method that is making its way out of academia and into the real world, a method that is gaining popularity in the world of portfolio management.

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OfficeHours

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Once I started working in finance, I educated myself on different investment types, what effective budgeting really meant, and where I should be putting my money to maximize return and diversification. This stuff isn’t rocket science, but it’s also not intuitive! So you want to pursue a role in Private Equity and Growth Equity?

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