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Market Capitalization Market capitalization is one of the simplest and most commonly used methods for valuing a publicly traded company. Example Scenario: Suppose XYZ Corp is a publicly traded technology company with 50 million shares outstanding, and the current share price is $20. million Year 2: $2 million / (1 + 0.10)^2 = $1.65
This liquidity feature typically creates a private company discount of around 25-35% range. These concepts will be very important in the next few posts as we discussed the specifics of different valuation methods such as DiscountedCashFlows, Comparable Company, Precedent Transaction, Dividend Discount Model, and more.
This approach relies on analyzing the market value of comparable publicly traded companies, known as guideline companies or multiples. Income-Based Valuation The income-based valuation method focuses on the target company’s ability to generate future cashflows and assesses the present value of these cashflows.
Comparable Company Analysis (CCA): CCA involves comparing the target company to similar publicly traded companies. CTA provides a more industry-specific perspective and is useful when there are limited public comparables. It involves forecasting cashflows and applying a discount rate.
Below are the six recognized methodologies with short explanations of each: DiscountedCashFlow (DCF) Analysis: This analysis derives an ‘intrinsic’ value of a company. This means that the method evaluates the future cashflow of the company and then discounts those cashflows to the present day.
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