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

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People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. So, for example, quarterly financial models are more common in equity research, as are detailed bottoms-up models used in initiating coverage reports.

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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

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Financial Modeling: Like private equity, 3-statement models are common, as are valuations and DCF models , but LBO models are less common since not all deals use debt. That said, you are still highly unlikely to win growth equity offers from something like engineering at a tech company or brand advertising.

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

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But it’s not necessarily required, and plenty of undergrads join these groups via internships without detailed knowledge of the engineering side. Valuation , such as the different multiples used for mining companies and the NAV model in place of the DCF (see below). What Do You Do as an Analyst or Associate in the Group?