Lake Country Advisors

AUGUST 8, 2024

Market Capitalization Market capitalization is one of the simplest and most commonly used methods for valuing a publicly traded company. This metric provides a quick snapshot of a company’s total equity value as perceived by the stock market. First, identify a group of similar publicly traded technology companies.

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Valuation Discounted Cash Flow S&P DCF Analysis 97

Francine Way

JULY 10, 2017

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP): ESOPs are programs that allow employees to become partial owners of firms, typically through equity shares as a part of compensation. This liquidity feature typically creates a private company discount of around 25-35% range. For a private company, the opposite is often true.

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Valuation M&A Equities Shares 130

RKJ Partners

AUGUST 6, 2017

Below are the six recognized methodologies with short explanations of each: Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis: This analysis derives an ‘intrinsic’ value of a company. This means that the method evaluates the future cash flow of the company and then discounts those cash flows to the present day.

M&A 40

M&A Valuation Mergers and Acquisitions Discounted Cash Flow 40